Farrah Fawcett died today of cancer at St. Johns’ Health Center in California. She was 62. The Texan actress and sex symbol whose who shot to fame on “Charlie’s Angels” and later on the critically-acclaimed TV film “The Burning Bed,” was diagnosed with colon cancer in September of 2006. She also gained acclaim for a score of other TV, film, and stage credits through the years, downplaying her “sex symbol” status from the 1970’s. We here at Shockya.com extend our deepest condolences to her friends and family. By Costa Koutsoutis
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Farrah Fawcett is an icon. As part of the original trio of ridiculously beautiful and refined detectives known as Charlie’s Angels, the actress soared to untold heights of fame. She played Jill Monroe, the fun, furtively smart girl with golden tresses and a smile that could stop a missile en route. She only played Jill for one season, but left an impact on anyone who caught the show during its original run. Fawcett passed away at the age of 62 after a long and very public battle with anal cancer. She might not ever be synonymous with horror, but her resume is overflowing with plenty of incredible genre work on the big and small screen...

Before she was an Angel Fawcett worked mostly in commercials and in character roles on television. Appearing in everything from I Dream of Jeannie to McCloud, Fawcett was also honing her skills
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Farrah Fawcett proved more than once that she was far more than a mega watt smile and an impressive mane of hair. She will of course be remembered for “Charlie’s Angels” even though she spent only one season as one of the trio of female detectives who took orders from a disembodied voice, but that first season of “Charlie’s Angels” made her an instantly recognizable phenomenon who sold millions of copies of her swimsuit poster. The actress wanted more and left the show to pursue a film career. The film that was supposed to make that a reality was called Somebody Killed her Husband and instead it nearly killed her budding career. Instead of slinking away she reinvented herself as a serious actress taking on the unglamorous and difficult role of a battered wife in “The Burning Bed”. If “Charlie’s Angels” made her an instant icon, “The Burning Bed” made her a respected actress
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Farrah Fawcett passed away this morning at age 62 in a Los Angeles hospital after a long, arduous battle with cancer. Millions will remember her exactly as she was on the posters for Charlie’s Angels, the action-packed 1970s TV show that propelled her to fame: flaunting her luxuriant, golden hair, her blinding smile, and that tight-fitting red bikini. Those posters went on to sell a record 12 million copies and her image is no doubt seared in the retinas of several generations of men, even though she was only on the show for one season. Fetishized as she was for her feathered, bottle-blonde locks, Fawcett took her profession seriously, earning three Emmy nominations — in 1984 for The Burning Bed, in 1989 for Small Sacrificies, and in 2001 for The Guardian. But even later in life, it was her statuesque physique that kept setting records: her topless shoot for Playboy in 1995, when she was 48, sold four million copies,

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Somewhere you can hear Charlie's disembodied voice weeping for an Angel passing. I mean that in the kindest non-snarkiest way in case anyone misreads. If you lived through the 70s or 80s you will undoubtedly have at least a small place in your heart for the seminal Charlie's Angels cast and probably Farrah Fawcett in particular. She got the most mileage from the show, career wise, probably by exiting it so very quickly. Smart girl. I preferred Jaclyn Smith as a child and then Cheryl Ladd but now in retrospect I'm totally a Kate Jackson man. Yet through it all, personal preferences aside, it was Farrah who emerged as the true superstar among them.

She died this morning at 62, losing her long battle with cancer.
Farrah provided me with my first fully conscious ideas about the divide between TV stars and Movie Stars: TV stars were part of the fabric of every day life,
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Farrah Fawcett, one of the original Charlie's Angels cast members and the best-selling pinup girl in history, died this morning in Santa Monica, Calif, three years after being diagnosed with cancer. Actor Ryan O'Neal, with whom she'd had an on-again/off-again relationship for nearly 30 years, was at her side. Fawcett was 62.
The Corpus Christi native and University of Texas at Austin alumnus had become relatively famous in the early 1970s doing modeling and guest spots on various TV shows, but it was her role as one of the three sexy crime fighters in Charlie's Angels, in 1976, that made her a superstar. The iconic poster of her in a red swimsuit sold 12 million copies -- the most ever for a poster -- and adorned teenage boys' bedrooms all across America. When she appeared mostly nude in Playboy in 1995, at age 48, it became the magazine's bestselling issue of the 1990s.
She left
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I know we usually blog on casting news and the latest happenings in movies, but it's sad to hear that Farrah Fawcett, who's been battling cancer for the last three years, died this morning at a Santa Monica hospital at age 62.Although the golden-haired beauty who came to fame in the '70s as the star of "Charlie's Angels" was never able to quite break through on the big screen, anyone who watched her in the '80s as the abused characters at the heart of projects like Extremities and "The Burning Bed" know that any missed movie opportunities were in no way due to a lack of talent.While she had been mainly appearing in smaller TV projects throughout the '90s and early 2000's, Fawcett did have a notable co-starring role in Robert...
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I know we usually blog on casting news and the latest happenings in movies, but it's sad to hear that Farrah Fawcett, who's been battling cancer for the last three years, died this morning at a Santa Monica hospital at age 62.Although the golden-haired beauty who came to fame in the '70s as the star of "Charlie's Angels" was never able to quite break through on the big screen, anyone who watched her in the '80s as the abused characters at the heart of projects like Extremities and "The Burning Bed" know that any missed movie opportunities were in no way due to a lack of talent.While she had been mainly appearing in smaller TV projects throughout the '90s and early 2000's, Fawcett did have a notable co-starring role in Robert...
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I know we usually blog on casting news and the latest happenings in movies, but it's sad to hear that Farrah Fawcett, who's been battling cancer for the last three years, died this morning at a Santa Monica hospital at age 62.Although the golden-haired beauty who came to fame in the '70s as the star of "Charlie's Angels" was never able to quite break through on the big screen, anyone who watched her in the '80s as the abused characters at the heart of projects like Extremities and "The Burning Bed" know that any missed movie opportunities were in no way due to a lack of talent.While she had been mainly appearing in smaller TV projects throughout the '90s and early 2000's, Fawcett did have a notable co-starring role in Robert...
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In sad but expected news, Farrah Fawcett has passed away at age sixty-two after a long and valiant fight with cancer. She was one of the most iconic sex symbols of all time, as well as a sadly underrated actress.
Most people will name the camp TV classic Charlie's Angels as her biggest claim to fame, but she was only on the show for one season (as well as a few guest appearances). Because of her enormous sex appeal, it was difficult for her to be taken seriously as an actress, but that changed in 1984 with a performance that would redefine her career.
Small Sacrifices/The Burning Bed

Like Cher in her Oscar-nominated dramatic turn in Silkwood, Farrah shocked the world with her gritty, Emmy-nominated performance as a battered wife in The Burning Bed. She would appear in a string of dramatic roles through the eighties, including Extremities, Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story,
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