Farrah Fawcett was born on February 2, 1947 in Corpus Christi, Texas to Pauline (Evans) Fawcett and James Fawcett.
Fawcett achieved critical praise as a serious actress for her role as a battered wife in the 1984 television movie, The Burning Bed. She also won acclaim in the stage and movie version of Extremities. In this role, she played a rape victim who turns the tables on her attacker.
Farrah Fawcett was an art student at the University of Texas before she deduced that she could make more money posing for pictures than painting them. She started her career as a supermodel, after few days later she moved from Wella Balsam shampoo advertisement into acting, and making her first film Myra Breckenridge in the year of 1970.
In the year of 1976, producer Aaron Spelling cast Fawcett, Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith in a pilot for an adventure series namely Charlie's Angels. The pilot graduated to a series, and the rest was TV history
In 1995, her fame brought her a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1995, Farrah also made waves when she got naked and appeared nude in Playboy magazine. The December 1995 issue, in which she appeared was the highest selling issue of the 1990??s for Playboy. She also appeared in the magazine again two years later in 1997.
Fawcett continued to act in TV-movies and miniseries, most notably in the Westerns "The Substitute Wife" (NBC, 1994) and "Children of the Dust" (CBS, 1995). After a six year absence, she returned to features as Jonathan Taylor Thomas' mother who plans to marry lawyer Chevy Chase in the uneven comedy "Man of the House" (1995).
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