by Linda Burleson

Created on: June 30, 2009   Last Updated: July 01, 2009

Have you ever met anyone who was just nice to the bone? Farrah was like that, even as a child. She always had that sparkling smile, and soft, rather quiet spirit that one likes to be around. Furthermore, she was a natural blonde. She always had the olive complexion with light blonde hair that is so attractive.

Mary Farah Leni Fawcett was born February 2, 1947 in Corpus Christi, Texas. Farrah attended the local parochial school, St. Patricks, which was very close to the home of her grandparents, where she, her mother and sister stayed when her dad was working in the oil fields. She wore a green skirt, a white blouse with a Peter Pan collar and a green beanie each day, which was rather interesting to her girlfriends on the block who all went to public school and wore something different every day. Farrah never minded the questions asked of her about her school, and always answered sweetly. It was an era where neighborhood children played outside together after school, roller skating on the sidewalks, playing jacks, chase, swinging statue and sandlot baseball (workup) and enjoyed each others' company. Rosedale Drive was a girl's neighborhood where, though the girls might be a year or two apart, they played together well.

WB Ray High School was public school, but Farrah fit right in. She was a good student academically and a popular student who won the Most Beautiful award each year. Ray was a place where a really good education was available, and most went on to at least some higher education. Farrah went to the University of Texas in Austin where she was an art major and was selected from a photo shoot as one of the ten most beautiful coeds on campus. This lead to a screen test and the opportunity to do commercials. Not surprisingly, the first was a toothpaste commercial. She also got to shave Joe Namath. That had to be fun. She got a part on the Six Million Dollar Man where she met Lee Majors, the star, who would eventually become her husband.

Her big break came when she was signed to be one of three stars on "Charlie's Angels". The rest is history. Her charisma "stole the show", even though she only stayed one year. To the very end of her life she remained friends with the people who acted on that show with her. During her tenure on "Charlie's Angels", she posed for a poster in a red bathing suit. People still purchase that poster today to hang on their walls.

Ten years after marrying Lee Majors, they divorced. Her love interest after that was Ryan O'Neal

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