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Farrah Fawcett
played the athletic Angel, Jill Munroe (only 1st season,
1976-1977). She was the blonde, vivacious, athletic,
Californian style curvaceous sexy Angel
with the peculiar sense of humor.
A
Texan beauty Farrah Fawcett, became an overnight star -
her golden blond mane became the hairstyle and her
famous swimsuit poster was the hottest seller in history. A
Farrah frenzy swept USA and everybody was talking about the
Farrah phenomenon. The sexy blonde became a lust-icon and the
poster of her in a red swimsuit adorned every young males wall!
But in 1977
Jill Munroe left the Angelic trio (to hunt a race driver
career as the script put it) after the first year of
adventures to re-team for 6 special appearances in 1978 and
1979. She has starred in many films (Saturn III) and TV movies,
received several award nominations and posed nude for Playboy
at age 48 in December of 1995.
I've selected
for this section the best Farrah fotos. Both first posters here
(scooter and tennis) are my favorite Farrah posters.
See
Jill Munroe Screenshots!
Visit
my Farrah Fawcett Photo Gallery!
Farrah
Fawcett Biography
 She
was born in Corpus Christi (Texas, USA) on 2th February 1947
as Mary Farrah Leni Fawcett.
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.
A supermodel
before that phrase had fallen into common usage, Fawcett moved
from Wella Balsam shampoo ads into acting, making her first
film Myra Breckenridge in 1970. She worked in TV bits
and full supporting parts, obtaining steady employment in 1974
with a small recurring role on the cop series Harry O,
but true stardom was still some two years down the road.
In 1968 she
dated actor Lee Majors, and the couple were married on July
28, 1973. Shortly after, Majors starred in his series The
Six Million Dollar Man (1974) and Farrah guest-starred in
four episodes. As her career took off,
she posed in her red bathing suit for a poster, and it sold a
staggering 8,000,000 plus copies.
After the
poster was released, in 1976 producer Aaron Spelling (friend
of her husband) cast Fawcett, Kate
Jackson and Jaclyn Smith
in a pilot for an adventure series titled Charlie's Angels.
The pilot graduated to a series, and the rest was TV history;
during her Charlie's Angels tenure Fawcett was the most
visible of the three actresses, adorning magazine covers and
pin-up posters, which set sales records. There were even Farrah
Fawcett dolls before the first season of Charlie's
Angels was over.
 Farrah received
a paycheck for $10,000 an episode, and when it started to take
off, Majors wanted her home by 6:30 pm to have dinner on the
table. Farrah felt dissatified about both her contract and her
paycheck. Then in 1977 after the first season wrapped, she
abruptly left the series. Shortly after, the departure
resulted in a lawsuit with the producers of the series.
Finally, she to return to the series in guest spots for six
episodes three in the 1978-79 season, and the other three
1979-80 season. In late 1979, Fawcett and Majors had separated,
and there was no reconciliation in sight, they were divorced
in 1980. Farrah dated Ryan O'Neal from 1980-1997. Then, in
1998, Farrah was severely injured by James Orr, after she had
spurned his proposal of marriage.
Now in the
hands of high-profile agents and advisers, Fawcett (billed
Farrah Fawcett-Majors after her marriage to Lee Majors)
decided she'd outgrown Angels and left the series, even
though she had another year on her contract. While the studio
drew up legal papers to block her move, she was replaced by Cheryl
Ladd. Fawcett settled her dispute by agreeing to a set
number of guest appearances on the program. Some industry
cynics suggested that Fawcett would have problems sustaining
her popularity. Certainly such lukewarm film projects as Sunburn
(1979), Somebody Killed Her Husband (1978) and Saturn
3 (1980) would seem to bear this theory out.
Never as big a
name as she was in 1976, Fawcett has nonetheless affirmed her
reputation as an actress of importance. Her fans were even
willing to forgive her misbegotten fling at situation comedy
in the 1991 series Good Sports, in which she co-starred
with her longtime "significant other" Ryan O'Neal.
Trivia about
Farrah Fawcett
Attended the University of
Texas at Austin (1966-67).
Lived with Ryan O'Neal' for
17 years. His daughter, actress 'Tatum O'Neal' ,
disapproved of her father's relationship with Fawcett.
Farrah's current boy
friend, writer-director-producer James
Orr, was arrested for battery after attacking her for
supposedly refusing his marriage proposal (28 January 1998).
Actress Kristen
Amber Citron accused her of stealing $72,000 worth of
clothing and nude pictures from the home of former boy
friend James
Orr (May 1997).
Reported to be splitting
from Ryan
O'Neal after 17 years together (February 1997).
 Farrah is cousin of
Jan Fawcett.
Son with Ryan
O'Neal: Redmond (born 1985).
One of the original
Charlie's Angels. She broke her contract for the last year
of Charlie's Angels which resulted in a lawsuit. She was
replaced by Cheryl
Ladd.
Listed (as Farrah Fawcett-Majors),
as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1976"
in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 28. (1976)
She had a rather strange
opening night in "Butterflies Are Free" at the Burt
Reynolds Dinner Theatre in Jupiter, Florida on July
25, 1980. An obese lady in the front row of tables began
yelling insults at her and making bird calls during the
performance. Later, this unidentified lady raised her
dress and flashed the performers, causing co-star Dennis
Christopher to take notice, although the character he
was playing was a blind man. Nearby, a male patron began
vomiting, and then yet another patron fainted. Incredibly,
the reviews for Farrah's performance were positive.
Earned $750,000 for
Silk
Hope (1999) (TV).
Was offered the
Goldie
Hawn role in Foul
Play (1978).
 In the late 70s, Farrah
Fawcett and her husband Lee
Majors were producers with the Fawcett-Majors
Productions.
Despite sometimes bizarre
behavior, including an incident on "Late
Show with David Letterman" (1993), that has led
to claims that Farrah is a drug addict, she says that she
never uses drugs. She claims she gets giggly when she is
nervous. She went on Letterman unprepared and her
nervousness affected her behavior.
Measurements: 33 1/2B-22-33
(as starlet and commercial model), 35C-24-35 (after
implants). Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine.
Was offered a cameo in the
film version of Charlie's
Angels (2000). Negotiations fell through after Fawcett
insisted on being cast as the voice of the new Charlie.
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