For months now, the stories concerning former Charlie's Angels starlet, Farrah Fawcett's, health have confused fans. As soon as one article reported her at death's door, another assured us she was doing well - even getting better! However, a TV documentary shown on NBC, Farrah's Story, showed the world what the pin-up girl was going through. Farrah Fawcett lost her battle with anal cancer early this morning, at 62.
Fawcett moved to Hollywood in the 1960s and immediately started getting work, though no major roles. All that changed when she landed the role of PI, Jill Munroe, on the soon-to-be iconic, Charlie's Angels. Shortly afterward, a poster for which Fawcett has posed hit stores - and became the best-selling poster of all time. It was even launched into space! Between the show and the poster, Farrah Fawcett was a bonafide star whose hairdo was mimicked across the world.
She left Charlie's Angels after only one season (though she returned for several episodes) to pursue a movie career. Unfortunately, that career never took-off. Fawcett garnered rave reviews and even an Emmy nomination for her work in the made-for-TV movie, The Burning Bed, in 1984. She received accolades for her work in other made-for-TV movies throughout the decade, but never won an award.
The 1990s saw the end of the made-for-TV movie and Farrah Fawcett unsuccessfully tried her hand at sit-coms. Following an infamously bad interview on David Letterman, Fawcett retreated from public life. She returned in 2005 with a short-lived reality show.
At the height of her fame, she was known as Farrah Fawcett-Majors. Her nine-year marriage to Lee Majors ended in 1983 and she began an on-again/off-again relationship with actor, Ryan O'Neal. The two had one son, Redmond.
Ryan O'Neal and longtime friend, Alana Stewart, were present when she died.
© C Harris Lynn, 2009
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