Mia Farrow Announces Her Actress Sister Died ‘Unexpectedly’

Mia Farrow attends the 2023 Time100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City on April 26, 2023. Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images

Longtime actress Mia Farrow announced on Thursday that her sister, Tisa Farrow, died unexpectedly at age 72.

“She died unexpectedly yesterday morning. Apparently in her sleep,” Mia Farrow, 78, wrote. “This is a hard time for all of us who admire and love her so deeply.”

“She was the best of us—I have never met a more generous and loving person. She loved life & never complained. Ever,” added the actress on Instagram.

Tisa Farrow, who was also an actress, was the youngest of seven children. She was born to Australian director John Farrow and actress Maureen O'Sullivan, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

After leaving Hollywood in the 1980s, she ended up working as a nurse, Mia Farrow said in her post, and was “a wonderful sister to Steffi, Prudence, and me, a devoted mother to Jason, who died in Iraq, Bridget, and little grandson Kylor—the lights of her life.”

Their brother, John Farrow, told the Hollywood Reporter that she passed away in Rutland, Vermont. Her cause of death has not been disclosed.

Her IMDB page shows that she made her movie debut in the 1970 film “Homer” before appearing in more than a dozen films, including Woody Allen’s “Manhattan” in 1979.

In a 1970 interview with the New York Times, then-18-year-old Tisa Farrow said she had “no advantages” in the movie industry, adding that she had “spent a long time going around town trying out for commercials, and I didn’t get one,” according to the New York Post.

According to a NY Times article, she dropped out of high school in the 11th grade and went on to work as a waitress in New York. She then attempted to pursue an acting career.

“I would always run into some career woman who disliked me right away because she didn’t like my sister Mia,” the article quoted her as saying. “She has a very strong character and is unsinkable,” Tisa also said of Mia Farrow.

Her acting credits also include “Some Call It Loving,” “Only God Knows,” “Strange Shadows in an Empty Room,” and “Search and Destroy,” her IMDB page shows.

Mia Farrow, meanwhile, starred in multiple Allen movies as well as others, including the Roman Polanski-directed “Rosemary’s Baby,” “The Great Gatsby,” “Hannah and Her Sisters,” “Husbands and Wives,” and many more.

She is survived by three of her sisters, brother John, daughter Bridget, and grandson Kylor, according to reports. Her son, Jason, died while he was in the U.S. Army in Iraq in 2018.