Tisa Farrow

Theresa Magdalena 'Tisa' Farrow (born July 22, 1951)^[1] is an American actress.

Farrow, one of seven children, was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Irish-born actress Maureen O'Sullivan and Australian-born film director John Farrow. She took up acting shortly after her older sister Mia Farrow rose to stardom. Farrow's first film 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 known American directors.

Farrow is perhaps most known for starring in the horror film, Zombie, but she also appeared in James Toback's first feature production Fingers, opposite Harvey Keitel, as well in Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979) and Antonio Margheriti's The Last Hunter (1980) In addition to Zombie, Farrow also appeared in The Anthropophagous Beast, another "video nasty".

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

In 2008 Tisa Farrow faced personal tragedy when her 37-year-old son, Sgt. 1st Class Jason Dene, died of a drug overdose. At the time of his death, Dene was on his second tour of duty in Iraq despite his aunt Mia's fervent opposition to the war here. Tragedy struck again in June 2009 when Mia and Tisa's 66-year-old brother Patrick shot himself to death in his Castleton, Vermont 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 then-President George W. Bush a "war criminal" shortly after Dene's death.

References

1. ^ California Birth Index 1905-1995

External links

• Tisa Farrow at the Internet Movie Database

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