UNITED States actress Farrah Fawcett died yesterday, aged 62, following a long-running battle with cancer.
In a statement, a spokesman said Farrah had “passed to a better place and left the pain and confines of her bed behind”.
The former Charlie’s Angels star’s battle against illness had been the focus of a moving documentary released just weeks before her death.
The actress was given the last rites yesterday at her hospital bed in Los Angeles.
Her long-time partner, Ryan O’Neal, was said to have been at her bedside when she died.
The Texas-born actress rose to fame in the 1970s through the highly successful Charlie’s Angels. Fawcett played the role of Jill Munroe in the detective series, winning a People’s Choice Award in the process.
Fawcett had married before, to Lee Majors, star of The Six Million Dollar Man.
