Tisa Farrow - Biography

Attractive willowy brunette Tisa Farrow was born Theresa Magdalena Farrow on July 22, 1951, in Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter of writer / director John Farrow and Maureen O'Sullivan and the sister of Mia Farrow. Tisa made her film debut in the obscure hippie counterculture drama Homer (1970). She gave an especially charming performance as sweet innocent "Jennifer" in the marvelously offbeat Sleeping Beauty (1973). Farrow was impressive as the timid "Mouse" in the fun made-for-TV Carrie au bal du diable (1976) clone The Initiation of Sarah (1978) and solid as the spaced-out "Carol" in James Toback's fabulously gritty Mélodie pour un tueur (1978). Tisa had small parts in both Manhattan (1979) and Qui a tué le président? (1979). She ended her acting career with starring roles in three entertainingly trashy Italian exploitation features: feisty heroine "Anne Bowles" in Lucio Fulci's excellent horror classic L'enfer des zombies (1979), spunky photojournalist "Jane Foster" in Antonio Margheriti's Vietnam action / adventure Héros d'apocalypse (1980) and a standard woman-in-peril part in Anthropophagous (1980).

Tisa Farrow called it a day as an actress in the early 1980s and went on to a successful career as a nurse in Vermont.