American actress and artist Farrah Leni Fawcett Was Born in Corpus Christi, Texas 1947.Her mother, Pauline Alice was a homemaker, and her father, James William Fawcett, was an oil field contractor.She was of Irish, French, English, and Choctaw Native American ancestry.Fawcett once said the name "Ferrah" was "made up" by her mother because it went well with their last name; she later changed the spelling.A Roman Catholic,Fawcett's early education was at the parish school of the church her family attended, St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Corpus Christi.She graduated from W. B. Ray High School in Corpus Christi, where she was voted "Most Beautiful" by her classmates in 1965.
For three years, 1965–68, Fawcett attended the University of Texas at Austin,living one semester in Jester Center, and she became a sister of Delta Sorority.During her sophomore year, she appeared in a photo of the "Ten Most Beautiful Coeds" from the university, which ran in Cashbox magazine. A Hollywood publicist saw the photo, called Fawcett and over the course of a year urged her to move to Los Angeles, which she did the summer following her junior year, with her parents' permission to "try her luck" in Hollywood over the course of the summer.A multiple Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee, Fawcett rose to international fame when she first appeared as private investigator Jill Munroe in the first season of the television series Charlie's Angels, in 1976. Fawcett later appeared Off-Broadway to critical approval and in highly rated and critically acclaimed television movies, in roles often challeng.Fawcett was a sex symbol whose iconic poster, released the same year Charlie's Angels premiered, broke sales records, making her an international pop culture icon. Her hairstyle was emulated by millions of young women in the 1970s and early 1980s.
