Ronan Farrow Biography

Fast Facts

• In 2013, he was named Man of the Year for 1987, the year of his birth, by Esquire
• Named No․ 1 on Forbes Magazine's 30 under 30 list of most influential people of 2012
• Noted by New York magazine as a New Activist in 2009 who also described him as being "on the verge of changing the world․"
• A political rights activist since his teen years, he served as a UNICEF Spokesperson for Youth from 2001 until 2009
• Honored with the Refugees International McCall-Pierpaoli Humanitarian Award in 2008
• Appointed by President Barack Obama as a Special Adviser for Humanitarian and NGO Affairs in the Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
• Appointed as Hillary Clinton's Special Adviser for Global Youth Issues in 2011 while she was serving as Secretary of State
• Studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in 2012
• Became the youngest student ever admitted to Bard College at the age of 11 and eventually graduated at 15
• Graduated from Yale Law School in 2009 and subsequently passed the New York State Bar
• The son of actress Mia Farrow, his mother made national news after admitting in 2013 that Frank Sinatra could be his biological father despite years of thinking her former husband Woody Allen was his father
• Quote: "I've had to be pretty precise in defending the things I want to stand for․"
• Quote: "If we can really harness dialog to build concrete initiatives that respond to some of the challenges that we're all facing and seeing in our various lines of work, it can be a powerful thing․"
• Named host of his own hour-long weekday news program on MSNBC in 2014
• During his tenure with UNICEF during the 2000s, he traveled to Darfur and several other poverty stricken regions as a goodwill ambassador
• Was named after the baseball player Satchel Paige