Hilary Farr

Acting

Farr began her career in Los Angeles, where she began purchasing and renovating homes, as well working as a film and television set designer.^[9] Acting under the name Hilary Labow, Farr made small appearances in Layout for 5 Models (1972), Sex Farm (1973), Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width (1973), Legend of the Werewolf (1975), City on Fire (1979) and The Return (1980). Her most notable film role would be from the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) where she played Betty Munroe, a bride who tosses her bouquet into a crowd, which Janet Weiss (played by Susan Sarandon) catches. Farr recounted that she used to live in the same building with one of the film's lead Tim Curry who plays Dr. Frank-N-Furter, prior to landing that role.^[10] In the early 1980s, she had small parts in various television sitcoms while working as a personal assistant for Ted Danson and Arthur Cohn.^[11]

In Broadway and Theatre, Farr played the role of Betty Rizzo and the singing role of Marty in the stage performance of Grease in London with actor Richard Gere who played Danny Zucko.^[12] In 2016, Farr appeared in Ross Petty's stage version of Sleeping Beauty at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto, in the role of Malignicent.^[12][13] (Although the character is more commonly known as Maleficent, she was renamed "Malignicent" for this production.)

Love It or List It

Farr auditioned and was the first to be signed into the role of co-host and designer of Love It or List It with Big Coat Productions (now Big Coat TV).^[14] The show was first broadcast on the W Network in Canada in September, 2008. The series became a top performer along with the network's other realty home and design originals and was later picked up by HGTV in 2011.

Farr left Love It or List It in 2023.^[15]

In 2017, Farr co-founded Rules of Renovation, a real estate investment seminar series held at locations across North America for aspiring investors.^[16]