Actress Sharon dies before two and a half months

Sharon Farrell, best known for her roles in Hawaii Five-O and The Young and the Restless as died at the age of 82.

According to her son, Chance Boyer, the actress died unexpectedly of natural causes on May 15 at a hospital in Orange County.

Aside from her well-known roles, Farrell appeared in The Stunt Man as a hairstylist in 1980 and acted as Chuck Norris' ex-wife in Lone Wolf McQuade.

Farrell graced television screens as Detective Lori Wilson on the final season of Hawaii Five-O and appeared as the mother of Tricia Cast's character, Nina Webster on the hit soap opera The Young and the Restless between 1991 to 1997.

Born Sharon Forsmoe on Christmas Eve in 1940 in Sioux City, Iowa, Farrell joined the American Ballet Company and worked on a road production of Oklahoma! before moving to New York to pursue acting and modeling.

Her film debut was in 1959's Kiss Her Goodbye before she danced on Broadway a year later in There Was a Little Girl, starring Jane Fonda and Dean Jones.

In 1962, Farrell starred in the short-lived drama Saints and Sinners with Nick Adams.

Her other television roles included My Favorite Martian, Gunsmoke, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., JAG, The Six Million Dollar Man, and Matlock.

She appeared in films such as A Lovely Way to Die, Not With My Wife, You Don't!, and Night of the Comet.

Farrell was reportedly involved in a love triangle between actor Steve McQueen and martial arts legend, Bruce Lee, according to the 2018 book Bruce Lee: A Life.

The lover's quarrel led to Lee and McQueen not doing a movie together at one point.

Farrell also had relationships with actors Andrew Prine and John F. Boyer, with whom she had her son with, while also being romantically involved with producer Ron DeBlasio and director Dale Trevillion.

However, Farrell never stayed married to any of them.

"That's something they do in Hollywood, to say that they're married," said Farrell's son, Chance, who appeared as a surfer on Harry and the Hendersons and was also on General Hospital.

In addition to Chance, Farrell is survived by her grandson, Wayde, and her daughter-in-law, Mandi. _The Sun