Which was Mia Farrow's Best Performance?

Radio Days

OP, I agree with your assessment. Sociopaths make for wonderful actresses.

"Death on the Nile". Very spooky and disturbing in a key role.

Yes r3! Her appearance on the pyramid or sphinx or whatever it was is really memorable.

I'd vote for Rosemary since she's so great in it and it is a great film.

She also made an amazing transformation for Broadway Danny Rose.

Odd she never got a nomination. I read Frank Sinatra asked people not to vote for her for Rosemary (true?) yet she remained on good terms with him? I guess compared to Woody he was the lesser evil.

Broadway Danny Rose she was beat by all those farm women. She should have been there instead of Spacek who really is a supporting actress in that film, the River.

I think she was robbed of the Oscar for Broadway Danny Rose. She captured both the comedy and the pathos of the character. A wonderful movie and a wonderful performance.

"Which was Mia Farrow's Best Performance?"

Model wife and mother

She has a brother named Michael Damien Farrow.

It's all for you Damien!

I think her role in "The Purple Rose of Cairo" was amazing.

A relatively little-known but highly effective VO work - the lead character in "The Last Unicorn".

Pretending not to mind when 247 year old Frank Sinatra couldn’t get it up on their wedding night.

She was so wonderful in so many different roles and yet MIA IS BITCH.

I really liked her in Widow's Peak, and of course Rosemary's Baby.

As a loving mother.

She stole my husband, then used one of my songs to brainwash her daughter

These poll options suck. Where's Secret Ceremony? See No Evil? The Haunting of Julia?

I agree that she (and her Sassoon haircut) greatly contributed to Rosemary’s Baby being a classic, but her best work was with Allen. Unfair that there were no nominations.

She was miscast in Death on the Nile (but gave a good, feverish performance anyway).

I wonder what roles she'd have had in Allen's films if they had stayed together.

Would she have been Helen Sinclair in Bullets over Broadway? (maybe the Tracey Ullman part would have fit better.)

I do love in Alice how the Chinese opium den gives her the pipe to smoke and she's like oh no I couldn't and then she takes a puff. This is the part I think is so funny. She then says obsessed, could you hold the pipe straight please. One puff and she's hooked.

I liked her performance in Kick Me In The Cunt Bone best.

Is she really that bad a person?

She's always been serviceable, and good in the right roles, but nothing moving by herself. Very beautiful in that waif way when she was young. Rosemary's Baby is her only Oscar worthy performance, and she was quite good in the Allen movies, but usually was outshone by the rest of the cast except perhaps Broadway Danny Rose.

She's a mediocre actress. No best involved.

She was pretty good in "Fingering Dylan's Fingerer."

Since Charlotte Rampling and Isabelle Huppert got nominated, she's probably the performer who has never been nominated who is the most surprising (just because she's done so many famous films and been around for so long). I mean, everyone else got one for one of Woody's films. Or maybe Irene Papas who was in all those big films too.

She's not the most inherently gifted actor, but I think her best performances are Rosemary's Baby, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Broadway Danny Rose, The Last Unicorn, and Husbands and Wives in which she showed a lot of growth as a performer (more naturalistic in the documentary style scenes).

September was derided when it was released, but I actually think she strikes the right balance of histrionic and raw in it. And I think she's underrated in John and Mary opposite Dustin Hoffman. She barely works any more, but she was very funny in Dark Horse and the 90s teen movie Coming Soon - I wish she had explored her eccentric comedic side more. She could play a great 'batty' old woman on a TV series or something.

I understand what you mean, r19, but an actor who let the others shine can be underrated. She was extremely good in Hanna and her Sisters, Another Woman, Alice, Husbands and Wives (specially) , which are more or less ensemble casts. I don’t see her in late Woody Allen , though (where the women are generally younger).

She won Best Actress from the National Board of Review for Alice which resulted in a GG nom (musical/comedy) but no other nominations.

From Hannah and Her Sisters, I always wondered why she wasn't in the awards conversation. Her performance in Broadway Danny Rose was highly praised. But I think there's always been a bias against her - probably to do with the Frank Sinatra thing. And of course now she'd never be considered award-worthy unless it was Biggest Lying Cunt On The Planet or something like that.

her best performances never made it on film, but was re-enacted by Kirstie Alley in the film Deconstructing Harry

watch below this is Mia played by Kirstie Alley

I nominate her press conferences and statements in her accusations against Allen...

Mia had that great scene with Soon-Yi where she pushed her down the stairs and Soon-Yi wished she had a stunt double.

I hope Mia googles herself and finds this fucking thread.

[quote] Mia had that great scene with Soon-Yi where she pushed her down the stairs and Soon-Yi wished she had a stunt double.

Actually she beat the crap out of Soon-Yi with a telephone. This is a story Mia herself confirmed in her book, after her Nanny spilled the beans in her book.

How about an honorary Oscar or the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award?

Did she just give up on men after Allen?

She was only in her forties when they broke up.

She seems to have just given up on men.

(and collected children.)

Her relationship with Ronan and pushing him into college and law school at a young age and isn't there some weird story about getting his legs broken to make him taller.?

BTW I once asked Ronan on Twitter so who do you really think is your father, Woody or Frank. HE BLOCKED ME!

I love her in her mostly silent role (played for laughs!) as the jealous disturbed sister in "A Wedding."

Ronan sang along with his fiancé on his podcast the week before last proving once and for all that he’s Woody Allen’s son.

R33. That doesn't mean much. Have you ever listened to Nancy?

The meta casting of having her play Mrs. Baylock in the remake of The Omen was sort of a cool idea BUT she was too sweet and chirpy and not terrifying at all like Billie Whitelaw in the original. Man, Whitelaw was fierce.

I was going to say she should have been nominated for an Oscar. She should have. I checked an the Brits nominated her for some things including a BAFTA which she lost to Jodie Foster for Taxi Driver and Bugsy Malone.