Soon-YiBirth Place: Korea Date of Birth: October 8, 1970 Heritage: Korean Contact Soon-Yi | 
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Woody Allen's Wife
Background: Soon-Yi is known to many as the American/Korean third wife of award winning screenwriter, director, actor and comedian Woody Allen. Their relationship has created a controversy since Soon-Yi is the adopted daughter of Allen's then companion, Mia Farrow, who is also the biological mother of Allen's son, Ronan Seamus Farrow (born December 19, 1987), and due to their age difference. Soon-Yi and Allen have two adoptive daughters. Mia Farrow's Adopted Daughter Childhood and Family: Soon-Yi Previn (previously named Soon-Yi Farrow Previn) was born on October 8, 1970, in Korea. She was adopted by conductor André Previn and his then wife, actress/model Mia Farrow, when she was about eight years old. Farrow and Previn divorced in 1979, and in 1980, she started a long running relationship with Woody Allen, which would ended in early 1992 after she discovered a sexual relationship between Allen and Soon-Yi. Soon-Yi attended Marymount School Of New York, a college preparatory, independent, Catholic day school for girls, and briefly Rider University in New Jersey. In 1995, she received a Bachelor's degree in art from Drew University in New Jersey. She went on to earn a Master's degree in special education from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1998. After several years of romance, Soon-Yi and Woody Allen married on December 22, 1997 in the Palazzo Cavalli in Venice. The couple have adopted two daughters, Bechet Dumaine Allen and Manzie Tio Allen, named after musician Sidney Bechet and Sidney Bechet's band drummer Manzie Johnson, respectively. Soon-Yi has been estranged from her adoptive mother Mia Farrow since the marriage. Responding to Soon-Yi and Woody Allen's marriage, Ronan Seamus Farrow, Allen and Farrow's biological son, stated, “He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression. I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent... I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.” Scenes from a Mall Career: In 1986, Soon-Yi had an extra in the comedy/drama film “Hannah and Her Sisters,” which was directed Woody Allen and starred Allen's then companion and her adopted mother, Mia Farrow. Later, she scored another uncredited extra in the Paul Mazursky directed comedy “Scenes from a Mall” (1991), starring Allen. In late 1991, Soon-Yi began her relationship with Woody Allen, who is 35 her senior. At the time, she was 21 while Allen was 56. The relationship went public after Soon-Yi's adoptive mother and also Allen's then partner Mia Farrow discovered the affair in January 1992. Soon-Yi and Allen continued their relationship after Allen's split from Farrow. The couple eventually married in 1997. Even though Allen never married Mia Farrow and was never Soon-Yi's legal stepfather, the relationship between Allen and Soon-Yi has been named as a father involved romantically with his stepdaughter, and it has been considered as a scandal. Many tabloids covered the affair, with the focus on Soon-Yi's kindred relation to Farrow, her own adoptive mother, and to their children, as well as the age gap between Soon-Yi and Allen. In 1992, Soon-Yi asserted that she does not, and never did, consider Woody Allen to be her father, stepfather, or father figure; she said she considers André Previn to be her adoptive father. She also remarked, “I was never remotely close to Woody. He was someone who was devoted exclusively to his own children and to his work, and we never spent a moment together.” Soon-Yi appeared in an award winning documentary, “Wild Man Blues,” which documented a 1996 European tour by Woody Allen and his band, as well as Allen's relationship with her. Directed by Barbara Kopple, the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 1997 and was released theatrically in the US on April 17, 1998. Awards: --- |
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