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American actress (born 1945)

Maria de Lourdes Villiers "Mia" Farrow (mə-REE-ə dee LOORDZVIL-yərz FARR-oh; born February 9, 1945) is an American actress. She first gained notice for her role as Allison MacKenzie in the television soap operaPeyton Place and gained further recognition for her subsequent short-lived marriage to Frank Sinatra. An early film role, as Rosemary in Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby (1968), saw her nominated for a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. She went on to appear in several films throughout the 1970s, such as Follow Me! (1972), The Great Gatsby (1974), and Death on the Nile (1978). Her younger sister is Prudence Farrow.

Farrow was in a relationship with actor-director Woody Allen from 1980 to 1992 and appeared in thirteen of his fourteen films over that period, beginning with A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982). She received numerous critical accolades for her performances in several Allen films, including Golden Globe Award nominations for Broadway Danny Rose (1984), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), and Alice (1990). She also acted in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), and Husbands and Wives (1992). In 1992, Farrow publicly accused Allen of sexually abusing their adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow. Allen was never charged with a crime and has vigorously denied the allegation. These claims received significant renewed public attention in 2013 after Dylan recounted the alleged assault in an interview that year.

Since the 2000s, Farrow has made occasional appearances on television, including a recurring role on Third Watch (2001–2003). She has also had supporting parts in such films as The Omen (2006), Be Kind Rewind (2008), and Dark Horse (2011) as well as the Netflix series The Watcher (2022). Farrow is also known for her extensive work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. She is involved in humanitarian activities in Darfur, Chad,

In Los Angeles, a furious Judge Rittenband moved to sentence Polanski in absentia, but before he could do so Polanski’s lawyers filed a detailed petition to have Rittenband disqualified from the case on the grounds of bias and prejudice. Surprisingly, the prosecutors declined to contest the factual assertions upon which the petition was based, but before the lawyers could obtain a ruling on the matter, Rittenband, while denying any such bias, agreed to permit the case to be assigned to another judge. The new judge declared that he had no intention of revisiting the case in Polanski’s absence, and it was removed from the court’s active calendar, pending Polanski’s return to Los Angeles. The district attorney, however, made it clear that the only way Polanski would ever be allowed to return to Los Angeles would be in handcuffs. And there the matter has stood to this day.

In Paris, I suggested to Polanski that one lingering problem with the whole affair might be that, because of his ferocious sense of pride, people never got a sense that he felt any deep remorse for what had happened between him and the thirteen-year-old girl. To my surprise, he rose to the bait. (True to his post-suit settlement, he never had before.)

“What am I supposed to do?” he said. “Go around wearing a hair shirt? That I feel sorry about it I said years ago. I did everything. How many times do I have to say this, just to satisfy so-called public opinion? And why do I have to do what public opinion says is right? It’s often wrong. Just the other day, I was reading that twenty million Americans don’t even believe that man ever walked on the moon.”

Back in the days when Polanski was still allowed to talk about the case to reporters, he used to complain that the girl wasn’t even exactly thirteen—she was just a few weeks shy of fourteen. “And there’s a big difference,” he would insist. “It’s not like the difference between, say, forty-one and forty-two.”

Of course, the point is that by the tim

"Vikings" (10 p.m., History, TV-14) wraps up its third season. This year, we've seen a curious blend of religious pondering and good old-fashioned ultra-violence. The depiction of the eighth-century siege of Paris a few episodes back was suitably epic in scale and featured a bloodied cast of thousands, or at least hundreds.

For all of the medieval head-bashing, "Vikings" has become a showcase for strong and scheming female characters. Not to give too much away, but last week Lagertha (Katheryn Winnick) proved that sneaking into Paris made a whole lot more sense than a frontal assault on a walled city.

On the other side of the battlements, King Charles (Lothaire Bluteau) may be a total wimp, but his feisty daughter Princess Gisela (Morgane Polanski) has become a rallying force.

These steely women have not only become military forces to be reckoned with, they've added some oomph to a series a tad too bogged down in Ragnar's (Travis Fimmel) spiritual quest and obsession with the martyred monk Athelstan (George Blagden) - a man-crush so all-encompassing, he may even become a Christian, much to the horror of his fellow Vikings.

This Norse soap saga has much of the appeal of "Game of Thrones" but without that fantasy's ludicrously complicated plotting. I like a drama you don't need a flowchart or an app to figure out. I guess I'm old-fashioned that way.

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