Soon-Yi Previn

Soon-Yi Previn (previously named Soon-Yi Farrow Previn) (born October 8, 1970) is the wife of film director Woody Allen. They have been together for years.
Early life and adoption
Born in South Korea, Soon-Yi was about eight years old when she was adopted by André Previn and his then-wife, Mia Farrow. Mia Farrow and Woody Allen became a couple in 1980.
Woody Allen
Previn gained international attention in 1992 when it was revealed that she was having a relationship with her own adoptive mother's long-time romantic partner, Woody Allen.
The affair was covered by tabloids, focusing not only on her familial relation to Allen's long-time partner, her own adoptive mother, and to their children, but also the 34-year age difference between Previn and Allen.
Allen and Farrow's biological son, Ronan Farrow, said of Allen: "He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression." Soon-Yi Previn said in 1992 that she does not, and never did, consider Woody Allen to be her father, stepfather, or father figure; she said she considers André Previn to be her adoptive father. She also commented that "I was never remotely close to Woody. He was someone who was devoted exclusively to his own children and to his work, and we never spent a moment together."
The couple married on December 24, 1997, in the Palazzo Cavalli in Venice, Italy.
Education
Previn received a bachelor's degree in art from Drew University in 1995 and a master's degree in special education from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1998.
Filmography
She appeared in these three documentaries:
* Wild Man Blues (1997)
* ' (1997)
* Seitenblicke (TV series documentary, May 20, 2008)
In these two films, she was a non-speaking, uncredited extra:
* Scenes from a Mall
* Hannah and Her Sisters

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