Sharon Farrell dead at 82: Hawaii Five-O and The Young and the Restless star dies ‘unexpectedly’

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.

Sharon Farrell has died at the age of 82

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Sharon Farrell has died at the age of 82Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
The actress died of natural causes, according to her son

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The actress died of natural causes, according to her sonCredit: Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images

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.

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