Actress. Born Theresa Magdalena Farrow, Tisa was the fourth daughter and youngest child of the seven children born to film director John Farrow and actress Maureen O'Sullivan. Tisa's first film role was in Homer (1970). She then starred in René Clément's And Hope to Die (1972), the drama Some Call It Loving (1973), and the comedy Only God Knows (1974). She was featured semi-nude in a photo article in the July 1973 issue of Playboy, photographed by Mario Casilli. In the second half of the 1970s, she acted in the Italian-Canadian action thriller Strange Shadows in an Empty Room (1976) directed by Alberto de Martino, and starred in the made-for-television horror film The Initiation of Sarah (1978), James Toback's first feature production Fingers (1978) alongside Harvey Keitel, and in the Canadian film Search and Destroy (1979). In Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979), she has a cameo appearance. From mid-1979 to 1980, she took leading roles in three Italian genre films: in Lucio Fulci's horror film Zombi 2 (1979), Antonio Margheriti's Vietnam War film The Last Hunter (1980), and Joe D'Amato's horror film Antropophagus (1980).
Actress. Born Theresa Magdalena Farrow, Tisa was the fourth daughter and youngest child of the seven children born to film director John Farrow and actress Maureen O'Sullivan. Tisa's first film role was in Homer (1970). She then starred in René Clément's And Hope to Die (1972), the drama Some Call It Loving (1973), and the comedy Only God Knows (1974). She was featured semi-nude in a photo article in the July 1973 issue of Playboy, photographed by Mario Casilli. In the second half of the 1970s, she acted in the Italian-Canadian action thriller Strange Shadows in an Empty Room (1976) directed by Alberto de Martino, and starred in the made-for-television horror film The Initiation of Sarah (1978), James Toback's first feature production Fingers (1978) alongside Harvey Keitel, and in the Canadian film Search and Destroy (1979). In Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979), she has a cameo appearance. From mid-1979 to 1980, she took leading roles in three Italian genre films: in Lucio Fulci's horror film Zombi 2 (1979), Antonio Margheriti's Vietnam War film The Last Hunter (1980), and Joe D'Amato's horror film Antropophagus (1980).
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