Background
Farrell was born Judy Hayden and raised in Quapaw, Oklahoma.
Farrell was born Judy Hayden and raised in Quapaw, Oklahoma.
She graduated from Oklahoma State University with a fine arts degree in theater.
While studying for a master"s degree at University of California, Los Angeles in 1961, she met actor Mike Farrell. In the 1960s, she and Farrell performed together at the Laguna Playhouse. They divorced in the early 1980s.