Mia Farrow's 14 Children: All About Her Sons and Daughters

Actress Mia Farrow first became a mom in 1970 when she welcomed twins Matthew and Sascha with then-husband André Previn

Mia Farrow became a Hollywood darling on the show Peyton Place and in movies like Rosemary’s Baby and The Great Gatsby. But rather than basking in the glamour of a Hollywood lifestyle, Farrow has devoted her life to her humanitarian efforts and her many children.

During her nine-year marriage to composer André Previn in the '70s, she welcomed twin sons Matthew and Sascha Previn in 1970, and son Fletcher Previn in 1974. Farrow and Previn also adopted daughter Lark Song Previn in 1973, daughter Summer “Daisy” Song Previn in 1976 and daughter Soon-Yi Previn in 1977.

After her split from Previn, Farrow began a relationship with director Woody Allen in 1980. During that time, she adopted son Moses Farrow in 1980, daughter Dylan Farrow in 1985, and both daughter Tam Farrow and son Isaiah Farrow in 1992. She and Allen also had a son, Ronan Farrow, in 1987, and the director later adopted Moses and Dylan.

Farrow and Allen’s relationship ended in 1992 when she discovered that Allen had been involved with her daughter Soon-Yi. The director and Soon-Yi married in 1997, and the relationship led to a rift between them and the rest of the family.

"If I could take it all back, I would," Farrow said of Allen in the 2021 docuseries Allen v. Farrow. "I wish I'd never met him. That's my great regret of my life, to bring somebody like that who should never have been in the family."

During the custody trials that ensued — Allen lost two suits trying to gain custody of Ronan, Moses and Dylan — disturbing allegations that Allen had sexually abused a young Dylan were made. Allen has long denied the allegations and was never charged, though a Connecticut prosecutor said there was probable cause for a criminal case.

The Watcher actress also adopted three more children in the 1990s: son Thaddeus Farrow in 1994, daughter Kaeli-Shea “Quincy” Farrow in 1994 and daughter Frankie-Minh Farrow in 1995.

Here's everything to know about Mia Farrow's 14 children.

She raised her family in New York City and Connecticut

Though they spent time in California and other places, Farrow and her children primarily resided in New York City. Farrow also owns a country home in Connecticut, nicknamed Frog Hollow, where they would spend time as a family.

"There were never more than eight children at a time living at home,” Farrow recalled to Vanity Fair in 2013.

Farrow adopted 10 of her children from all over the world

In the 1970s, Farrow adopted three daughters with then-husband Previn: Lark, Daisy and Soon-Yi. Lark was adopted from Vietnam as a baby in 1973. Daisy, who was born in 1974, was adopted from Vietnam in 1976. Two years later, Farrow and Previn adopted then-7-year-old Soon-Yi from Korea.

In 1980, Farrow adopted another child from Korea, 2-year-old Moses, who had cerebral palsy. She also adopted a baby girl, Dylan, from Texas in 1985.

Farrow adopted two more children within one week of each other in 1992: Tam, a girl who was blind from Vietnam, and son Isaiah.

The actress's family expanded yet again in 1994 with Thaddeus, who was adopted from India, and Quincy, who was adopted at 1 year old. Farrow adopted daughter Frankie-Minh from Vietnam in 1995.

Thaddeus studied to become a police officer

Thaddeus, who died in 2016, was paraplegic due to polio. Farrow adopted her son from an orphanage in Calcutta, India.

In 2013, Thaddeus opened up to Vanity Fair about joining Farrow's family, saying, "It was scary to be brought to a world of people whose language I did not understand, with different skin colors." He continued, "The fact that everyone loved me was a new experience, overwhelming at first."

At the time of the interview, Thaddeus was studying to become a police officer.

Ronan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

In 2017, Ronan published a story in The New Yorker detailing 13 women’s claims they were sexually harassed or assaulted by producer Harvey Weinstein, just days after The New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey ran an article with eight women’s similar stories. The two reports brought to light decades of alleged sexual misconduct and sexual assault by Weinstein, who was later convicted of sex crimes in New York in California, and helped spur the #MeToo movement.

The following year, Ronan, Kantor and Twohey were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service for their reporting on Weinstein.

In 2019, Ronan published Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, which detailed many of former Today Show host Matt Lauer’s alleged sexual misdeeds.

Ronan has said that living through his family’s scandals has influenced his view of power structure. “You see early in life with that kind of a family background the way in which the most powerful men in America wield power for good and for ill,” he told The Hollywood Reporter in 2018. "And probably, yes, the family background made me someone who understood the abuse of power from an early age.”

Speaking to The Telegraph in 2019, Farrow expressed pride in her son’s work. “Men now think twice thanks to my son,” she said.

Farrow's twin sons, Matthew and Sascha, pursued careers out of the spotlight

Despite their mother's Hollywood career, many of the Previn and Farrow children have chosen private lives.

After graduating from Yale and Georgetown Law, Farrow's oldest son, Matthew, works as a lawyer in New York City. He married fellow lawyer Tarnisha Antoinette Graves in 2003 and the couple share two children.

His twin brother, Sascha, studied at Fordham University. He shares a daughter with his first wife and previously worked as an accountant at a media buying company in New York. As of 2018, he was a high school teacher.

Three of her children died young

Farrow lost three of her children to untimely deaths. Daughter Tam died in 2000, daughter Lark died in 2008 and son Thaddeus died in 2016.

In 2021, Farrow posted on X (formerly Twitter) about those losses. "My beloved daughter Tam passed away at 17 from an accidental prescription overdose related to the agonizing migraines she suffered, and her heart ailment," the actress wrote.

Lark “died at 35 from complications of HIV/AIDS, which she contracted from a previous partner," Farrow continued. "Despite her illness she lived a fruitful and loving life with her children and longtime partner. She succumbed to her illness & died suddenly in the hospital on Christmas, in her partner's arms."

Farrow went on to describe Lark as an "extraordinary woman, a wonderful daughter, sister, partner and mother to her own children."

Thaddeus, whom Farrow called "courageous," died in 2016 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Soon-Yi is married to Allen and estranged from Farrow

Soon-Yi and Allen began a secret relationship in the '80s, while the director and the Peyton Place actress were still together.

When Soon-Yi and Allen's affair came to light in 1992, Farrow subsequently ended her long-term relationship with Allen and became estranged from her daughter. In the 2021 HBO docuseries Allen v. Farrow, Farrow claimed that Allen “weaponized” Soon-Yi against her and that she never wanted to be estranged from her Soon-Yi. "I love Soon-Yi,” she said. “It took me six years to throw away the Christmas stocking I knitted for her thinking she would come back, but she didn't."

Allen and Soon-Yi married in 1997, and adopted two children together, Manzie and Bechet.

"I admit, it didn't make sense when our relationship started," Allen told The Mail on Sunday in 2020. "On the surface, we looked like an irrational match. I was much older and she was an adopted kid."

"It looked to the outside world that it was an exploitative situation — that I would exploit her as an older predatory male, and she would exploit me for whatever I had. That was never the case," he continued. "In the past, I had always gone out with actresses, but for whatever inexplicable reason, with Soon-Yi it worked."

Despite their 35-year age difference and the controversial beginnings of their relationship, the two remain married today.  “She has given me the great years of my life,” Allen told The Hollywood Reporter in 2016.

In 2018, Soon-Yi spoke to New York Magazine about their relationship and called the sexual misconduct allegations against Allen "unjust." She also added that she couldn’t come up with “a single pleasant memory” of her mother.

Dylan spoke out as an adult about her alleged childhood abuse

During Farrow and Allen's split in 1992, Dylan accused the director of sexually abusing her as a child.

During the investigations, Dylan was interviewed nine times about her claims of abuse, as she described in Allen v. Farrow. "I would meet with some adults who would show me an anatomically correct doll and ask me where Daddy had touched me," she said in one episode. "And I would repeat the story over and over and over again. It was grueling and it was intense and I hated it."

Afterward, Dylan said in the series, she blamed herself for what was happening in her family. “There was a long period of guilt for me," she said. "I felt like I had caused a rift in my family."

She remained publicly quiet about her alleged experience until 2014, when Allen was given a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes. “For so long, Woody Allen’s acceptance silenced me,” Dylan wrote in an Op-Ed in The New York Times. “It felt like a personal rebuke, like the awards and accolades were a way to tell me to shut up and go away. But the survivors of sexual assault who have reached out to me have given me a reason to not be silent, if only so others know that they don’t have to be silent either.”

She told PEOPLE in 2014 that revisiting that trauma was very difficult for her. “It took all of my strength and all of my emotional fortitude to do what I did this week in the hope that it would put the truth out there,” Dylan said. "That is my only ammunition. I don’t have money or publicists or limos or fancy apartments in Manhattan. All I have is the truth, and that is all I put out there.”

Allen has long denied the allegations of child abuse and he was never charged.

Moses came to Allen's defense

When Dylan spoke about Allen's alleged abuse in 2014, Moses publicly defended his father. “My mother drummed it into me to hate my father for tearing apart the family and sexually molesting my sister,” Moses told PEOPLE. “And I hated him for her for years. I see now that this was a vengeful way to pay him back for falling in love with Soon-Yi.”

Moses is close to Allen and Soon-Yi, and estranged from much of the rest of his family.

In 2017, Moses — who is a family therapist and photographer — addressed the allegations again and claimed Farrow was physically and emotionally abusive toward him and his siblings during an interview with Eric Lax.

Farrow denied the allegations, telling PEOPLE in a statement, “It’s heartbreaking and bewildering that he would make this up, perhaps to please Woody.”

Ronan is close to the Sinatra family

Prior to becoming a mother, Farrow was married to Frank Sinatra from 1966 to 1968. Though their marriage didn't last, the two remained friends until his death in 1998.

In 2013, Farrow spoke about her friendship with Sinatra to Vanity Fair and claimed that he could “possibly” be Ronan’s biological father. While Farrow never elaborated further, Ronan has remained close with the Sinatra family, even attending Frank's funeral with his mother.

“He’s a big part of us, and we are blessed to have him in our lives,” Frank’s daughter, Nancy Sinatra, told Vanity Fair.

Related: Mia Farrow and Frank Sinatra's Relationship: A Look Back

However, Sinatra’s close friend Tony Oppedisano revealed in PEOPLE in 2021 that he didn’t think the singer was Ronan’s father. "There's been a lot of gossip about Frank's possibly being Ronan's biological father," Oppedisano wrote in his memoir Sinatra and Me: In The Wee Small Hours, "rumors I believe I'm a position to tamp down." Oppedisano claimed that a medical procedure required Sinatra to wear a colostomy bag around the time Ronan would have been conceived and that he was too busy to have been able to meet up with Farrow at that time.

"There are only two ways Frank could have fathered Ronan, both absurd," he wrote. "Either Mia made a secret trip to shack up with Frank in his California home with [fourth wife] Barbara present, or Frank, wearing his aways romantic colostomy bag, made a quick trip to Connecticut between his Atlantic City performances."

Fletcher is a computer whiz

Farrow's son Fletcher built his first computer at age 13, according to Vanity Fair. In 2013, he told the outlet that he used his computer skills to help the family cope with the Allen scandals, photoshopping the director out of family photos. “We can look at them and be reminded of the good and not be reminded of the bad,” he said.

Today, Fletcher is senior vice president and chief information officer at Cisco Systems, per his LinkedIn.

Her kids have made Farrow a grandmother several times over

Farrow has many grandchildren through her three kids. Sons Matthew, Sascha, Fletcher and Moses, and daughters Daisy, Soon-Yi, Dylan, Lark and Quincy have welcomed children of their own.

While Farrow's many grandchildren have stayed out of the spotlight, Farrow has shared a few glimpses and her ever-growing family.

In 2016, Farrow posted a photo of Dylan’s newborn daughter Evangeline on X, writing, “Welcome to my beautiful little grand-daughter, Evangeline."

The actress also introduced Quincy's daughter Coretta to the world in 2018, posting on X, "Meet my granddaughter, Coretta. Her exhausted but super proud parents are my daughter Quincy and her husband Ethan. Coretta is perfect!!."

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