Seen here in 2005, “Charlie’s Angels” star and icon Farrah Fawcett has been fighting anal cancer since April 2006. A new documentary on her fight against the illness will air May 15 on NBC.
-- Kate Stanhope, latimes.com(Frederick M. Brown / Getty Images)
Fawcett became Farrah Fawcett-Majors after her 1973 marriage to Lee Majors, star of “The Six Million Dollar Man.” Seen here with Sophia Loren, the couple later separated in 1979 and divorced in 1982. (Lennox McLendon / Associated Press)
After the end of her marriage to Lee Majors, Fawcett began dating actor Ryan O’Neal, best known for the film “Love Story.” The two became life partners and also have a son together, Redmond O’Neal. (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)
Aside from her appearances on TV and on the cover of countless magazines, Fawcett explored theater in the 1983 off-Broadway play, “Extremities.” She played a rape victim who gets back at her attacker in the stage and film versions of “Extremities.” (Marty Lederhandler / Associated Press)
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For a 2002 show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fawcett created a sculpture of artist Keith Edmier. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)
In 2006, Fawcett reunited with former “Charlie’s Angels” costars Kate Jackson (left) and Jaclyn Smith to pay homage to the show’s creator, Aaron Spelling. The tribute to Spelling, at the 58th annual Emmy Awards, was the first time the trio had been together since 1977. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)
