Farrah Fawcett Farrah Fawcett Farrah Leni Fawcett (; originally spelled Ferrah; February 2, 1947 – June 25, 2009) was an American actress, model, and artist. A four-time Emmy Award nominee and six-time Golden Globe Award nominee, Fawcett rose to international fame when she posed for her iconic red swimsuit poster – which became the best selling pin-up poster in history – and starred as private investigator Jill Munroe in the first season of the television series "Charlie's Angels" (1976–1977). In 1996, she was ranked No. 26 on "TV Guide" "50 Greatest TV stars of All-Time". In 1969, Fawcett began her career when
Farrah Fawcett Bravo and Oxygen. On July 16, 2009, Fawcett posthumously earned her fourth Emmy nomination as the producer of "Farrah's Story". Controversy surrounded the aired version of the documentary. Her initial producing partner–who had worked with her four years earlier on her reality series "Chasing Farrah"–alleged that the editing of the program by O'Neal and Stewart was not in keeping with her wishes to more thoroughly explore alternative methods of treatment of rare types of cancers such as her own. Fawcett died at 9:28 a.m. PDT on June 25, 2009, at the age of 62, due to cancer, at Saint John's