Theresa Magdalena 'Tisa' Farrow (born July 22, 1951) is an American

United States

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 actress and nurse.

Early life

Farrow, one of seven children, was born in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

, the daughter of Irish-born actress Maureen O'Sullivan

Maureen O'Sullivan

Maureen Paula O’Sullivan was an Irish actress.-Early life:O'Sullivan was born in Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland, the daughter of Roman Catholic parents Mary Lovatt and Charles Joseph O'Sullivan, an officer in The Connaught Rangers who served in The Great War...

 and Australian-born film director

Film director

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 John Farrow

John Farrow

John Villiers Farrow, CBE was an Australian, later American, film director, producer and screenwriter. In 1957 he won the Academy Award for Best Writing / Best Screenplay for Around the World in Eighty Days and in 1942 he was nominated as Best Director for Wake Island.-Life and career:Farrow was...

. She was raised Roman Catholic

Roman Catholic Church

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. She is the youngest of four girls and three boys, her siblings being actresses Mia

Mia Farrow

Mia Farrow is an American actress, singer, humanitarian, and fashion model.Farrow first gained wide acclaim for her role as Allison Mackenzie in the soap opera Peyton Place, and for her subsequent short-lived marriage to Frank Sinatra...

 and Stephanie

Stephanie Farrow

Stephanie Margarita Farrow is an American actress.She is the daughter of film director John Farrow and actress Maureen O'Sullivan. She is also the sister of actress Mia Farrow, and has five other siblings: Michael , Patrick , John , Prudence and Tisa.Stephanie Farrow during her early career as a...

, Prudence

Prudence Farrow

Prudence Anne Villiers Farrow Bruns is an American author, meditation teacher, and film producer. She is the daughter of film director John Farrow and actress Maureen O'Sullivan, and the younger sister of actress Mia Farrow...

, Michael Damien (1939–1958), Patrick Joseph (1942–2009), and John Charles (born 1946).

Career

She took up acting shortly after her older sister Mia Farrow

Mia Farrow

Mia Farrow is an American actress, singer, humanitarian, and fashion model.Farrow first gained wide acclaim for her role as Allison Mackenzie in the soap opera Peyton Place, and for her subsequent short-lived marriage to Frank Sinatra...

 rose to stardom. Farrow's first film

Film

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 appearance was in Homer (1970), directed By John Trent. She has spent some of her career in lower-rung horror films and melodramas, while still pursuing higher profile projects with some of the better known American directors.

Farrow is perhaps most known for starring in the horror film, Zombi II, but she also appeared in James Toback's first feature production Fingers

Fingers (1978 film)

Fingers is a 1978 drama film directed by James Toback.-Synopsis:The film features Harvey Keitel as a pianist who also works for his loan shark father as a "collector"...

, opposite Harvey Keitel

Harvey Keitel

Harvey Keitel is an American actor. Some of his most notable starring roles were in Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets and Taxi Driver, Ridley Scott's The Duellists and Thelma and Louise, Ettore Scola's That Night in Varennes, Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, Jane Campion's The...

, as well in Woody Allen

Woody Allen

Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...

's Manhattan

Manhattan (film)

Manhattan is a 1979 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Woody Allen about a twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer who dates a 17-year-old girl before eventually falling in love with his best friend's mistress...

 (1979) and Antonio Margheriti

Antonio Margheriti

Antonio Margheriti , also known under the pseudonym Anthony M. Dawson, was a prolific Italian filmmaker. He was born in Rome and died in 2002 from a heart attack in Monterosi, Viterbo, near Rome at the age of 72....

's The Last Hunter

The Last Hunter

The Last Hunter is a 1980 Italian "macaroni combat" war film directed by Antonio Margheriti and starring David Warbeck.-Plot:Following the suicide of his best friend, Captain Harry Morris accepts a final deadly mission to go behind enemy lines to destroy a radio tower that is broadcasting...

 (1980) In addition to Zombi II, Farrow also appeared in Antropophagus, another "video nasty

Video nasty

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".

Farrow gave up acting in the early 1980s and went on to a career as a nurse at Rutland Regional Medical Center

Rutland Regional Medical Center

Founded in 1896, Rutland Regional Medical Center has grown from a 10-bed hospital with eight attending physicians into Vermont's second largest health care facility. RRMC has 188 licensed beds,and 120 physicians. RRMC is designated a Sole Community Provider by Medicare...

 in Rutland, Vermont.

Personal life

In May 2008 Tisa Farrow faced personal tragedy when her 37-year-old son, Sgt. 1st Class Jason Farrow Dene, died of an accidental prescribed drug overdose. At the time of his death, Dene was on his second tour of duty in Iraq despite recent surgery to correct breathing problems and his aunt Mia's fervent opposition to the Iraq War. Tragedy struck again in June 2009 when Mia and Tisa's 66-year-old brother Patrick shot himself to death in his Castleton, Vermont

Castleton, Vermont

Castleton is a town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States. Castleton is about to the west of Rutland, and about east of the New York/Vermont state border. The town had a population of 4,717 at the 2010 census. Castleton State College is located there, with roots dating to 1787...

 art gallery. Mia has blamed Patrick's suicide on the crushing grief and devastation over the earlier passing of Jason Dene. Like Mia, Patrick was opposed to the Iraq War, calling George W. Bush

George W. Bush

George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

 a "war criminal" shortly after Dene's death.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1978 1978 in film The year 1978 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 1 - Bob Dylan's film Renaldo and Clara, a documentary of the "Rolling Thunder Revue" tour premieres in Los Angeles, California....	Homer	Laurie Grainger
1972 1972 in film The year 1972 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:*Avanti!, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet MillsB...	La Course du Lièvre à Travers les Champs	Pepper
1973 1973 in film The year 1973 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely. Blakely would later marry actor/singer Frank Sinatra....	Some Call It Loving Some Call It Loving Some Call It Loving, also known as Sleeping Beauty is a 1973 drama film written, produced, and directed by James B. Harris, based on a short story by John Collier. The film involves a woman who has been asleep for eight years in a carnival. She is purchased from the carnival by a lonely man....	Jennifer	Other title: Sleeping Beauty
1974 1974 in film The year 1974 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 7 - Blazing Saddles is released in the USA.*August 7 - Peter Wolf, lead singer of The J...	Only God Knows	Terry Sullivan
1976 1976 in film The year 1976 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas' Star Wars science fiction film...	A Special Magnum for Tony Saitta	Julie Foster	Other title: Shadows in an Empty Room
1978 1987 in film -Events:*January 31 - The Cure for Insomnia premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records....	The Initiation of Sarah	Alberta 'Mouse'	Television film
	Fingers Fingers (1978 film) Fingers is a 1978 drama film directed by James Toback.-Synopsis:The film features Harvey Keitel as a pianist who also works for his loan shark father as a "collector"...	Carol
1979 1979 in film The year 1979 in film involved some significant events.- Major events :* March 5 - Production begins on Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.* May 25 - Alien, a landmark of the science fiction genre, is released....	Search and Destroy	Kate Barchel
	The Ordeal of Patty Hearst	Gabi	Television film
	Manhattan Manhattan (film) Manhattan is a 1979 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Woody Allen about a twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer who dates a 17-year-old girl before eventually falling in love with his best friend's mistress...	Party Guest
	Winter Kills Winter Kills (film) Winter Kills is a 1979 film based on the novel by Richard Condon. Its cast includes Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Eli Wallach, Richard Boone, Toshirō Mifune, Sterling Hayden, Dorothy Malone, Ralph Meeker, Elizabeth Taylor, Berry Berenson and Susan Walden.Most of the film was lensed by...	Nurse Two
	Zombi 2 Zombi 2 Zombi 2 is a 1979 zombie horror film directed by Lucio Fulci. It is the best-known of Fulci's films and made him a horror icon. Though the title suggests this is a sequel to Zombi Zombi 2 (also known as Zombie, Island of the Living Dead, Zombie Island, Zombie Flesh Eaters and Woodoo) is a 1979...	Anne Bowles	Other titles: Zombie, Zombie Flesh Eaters
1980 1980 in film - Events :* May 21 - Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released and is the biggest grosser of the year ....	L'Ultimo Cacciatore The Last Hunter The Last Hunter is a 1980 Italian "macaroni combat" war film directed by Antonio Margheriti and starring David Warbeck.-Plot:Following the suicide of his best friend, Captain Harry Morris accepts a final deadly mission to go behind enemy lines to destroy a radio tower that is broadcasting...	Jane Foster	Other title: Hunter of the Apocalypse. The Last Hunter
	Antropophagus	Julie	Other titles: Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper, The Anthropophagous Beast

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