Farrah Fawcett is a woman.
Farrah Fawcett . Her breakthrough role came in 1976 , when she was cast as Jill Munroe in the ABC series Charlie 's Angels , alongside Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith . In 1983 , Fawcett received positive reviews for her performance in the Off-Broadway play Extremities . She received two Emmy Award nominations for her roles in TV movies , as a battered wife in the 1984 film The Burning Bed and as real-life murderer Diane Downs in the 1989 film Small Sacrifices .