From: Astro-Data-Bank:
Woody Allen (Allen Stewart Konigsberg)
The ultimate pessimist, Allen is an anhedonic, one who is psychologically unable to enjoy himself; in therapy for over 20 years, perhaps the funniest neurotic of the 20th century. For the first eight years of his Freudian analysis, he went daily. Totally cerebral, he apologizes for not being funny in private. Known for his painful courtesy, his generosity and his frantic attempts to avoid
publicity, he likes to shop for antiques, visit art galleries and museums. Slight in stature with thinning hair and a worried expression, Allen is 5'6", 120 lbs.
A renaissance man, he plays clarinet in a club on Manhattan's East Side, Dixieland and jazz. He never smokes or drinks and washes down his housekeeper's gourmet meals with Coca-Cola. He married a second time, to actress Louise Lasser, and they had several good years together before calling it quits.
"Play It Again Sam," which he wrote, directed and starred in, played on Broadway, then moved on to Hollywood to become a movie. His co-star was Diane Keaton.
Louise Lasser starred in two of Allen's films, Diane Keaton in five, and Mia Farrow in 12. In the fall of 1979 he met Mia Farrow, who had seven children.
They slowly began a relationship early in 1980, wondrous at how different they were. He was then 43 and she, 34. They resolved their opposite tastes for 11 years by living in separate apartments that face each other across Central Park. Though they never lived together they had one biological child and adopted two. The relationship began falling apart in the end of the '80s.
On 12/01/1991, he began an affair with Soon-Yi (about age 21), one of Farrow's adopted tribe. When Farrow found out, it became a highly public explosion. She accused him of molesting daughter Dylan on 8/04/1992, which was never proven. He sued for custody of their two adopted children and made history in the Manhattan Surrogate court on 12/17/1991 with a precedent that they were separate but equal adoptive parents of Moses and Dylan Farrow. However he lost his custody suit with Mia in mid-June 1993.
On a chilly afternoon, 12/23/1997, Allen, 62, married Soon-Yi Previn, 27, at a municipal building in Venice, Italy. They have an adopted daughter, Bechet Dumaine. In September 2000 they adopted another daughter, Manzie Tio, reportedly born in Texas about six months ago. Both daughters received their names from legendary musicians.
Mia Farrow
American actress and noted family, the third of seven kids of writer-director John Farrow and actress Maureen O'Sullivan.
One night after a performance of a Broadway production of "Romantic Comedy", her friend Michael Caine introduced her to Woody Allen, in 1978.
They went to museums, movies and the opera, walking together all through Manhattan, the city he loved. Allen lived in a penthouse on Fifth Avenue directly across Central Park from her apartment. She felt confident and happy in the beginning about the affair they began.
In September 1980, the kids met Allen, Matthew and Sascha, Soon-Yi, Lark, Daisy, Fletcher, and Moses, whom she had adopted earlier that year. They began to spend weekends at each other's apartment, though he was uncomfortable parenting material and they never lived together as a full-time family couple. He tried, but made little connection with the kids. In 1985, they adopted Dylan and suddenly, for the first time, Woody loved a kid; the baby became central to his life. Their son Satchel was born on 12/19/1987. They also worked together fruitfully with 13 movies in their 12-year-relationship.
They began falling apart in 1989-1990, and had a huge, explosive break-up when Farrow found porno pictures in Allen's apartment of her daughter Soon-Yi with Allen on 1/13/1992. Their split was official in August 1992, complete with bitter accusations and legal volleys.
By 1997, Farrow had a total of 14 kids, ten of whom were adopted. The family was centered in an eight bedroom house in Connecticut. Her autobiography, 'What Falls Away" was published in 1997. In it, she reveals much of her life, writing candidly about the traumas and joys.