Hawaii Five-O star Sharon Farell who was once in a love triangle with iconic actors Bruce Lee and St

Sharon Farrell best known for her roles in Hawaii Five-O and The Young and The Restless has died aged 82. 

According to The Hollywood Reporter her son Chance Boyer confirmed the actress had passed away unexpectedly of natural causes at a hopistal in Orange County California on May 15.

Behind the camera she was reportedly involved in a love triangle between Steve McQueen and Bruce Lee, the latter of which she described as the 'love of her life'.

Sharon played Nina Webster on the soap The Young and The Restless between 1991 and 1997 as well as roles in The Man from U.N.C.L.E, The Six Million Dollar Man and Gunsmoke. 

On the big screen she acted in 1980's The Stunt Man, Lone Wolf McQuade alongside Chuck Norris in 1983 and 1987's Can’t Buy Me Love. 

RIP: Hollywood actress Sharon Farrell best known for her roles in Hawaii Five-O and The Young and The Restless has died aged 82 (pictured in 2014) 

Farewell: Her son Chance Boyer confirmed the star had passed away unexpectedly of natural causes at a hopistal in Orange County California on May 15 (pictured in 1970 TV movie Quarantined)

As well as son Chance, who played a surfer in 90s TV series Harry and the Hendersons and soap General Hospital, Sharon is also survived by grandson Wayde and daughter-in-law Mandi. 

It comes after Sharon gushed to Bruce Lee's 2018 biographer Matthew Polly: 'Bruce took me to the Moon and back, he just turned me inside out. But he was married and didn't have a pot to pee in.'

Before adding: 'Steve [McQueen] was so successful—he was my protector…I was in lust with Steve, but Bruce was the love of my life.'

In Bruce Lee: A Life the author recounts how Bruce surreptitiously came to see Farrell in late 1968 after flying down to rural Mississippi where Sharon and McQueen were filming together.

Some years before he became a star in his own right, Bruce was there as Steve's kung fu trainer, but he had his own 'hidden reason' for wanting to visit the set - his secret love affair with Sharon.

'When Bruce spotted Sharon next to her trailer, he snuck up behind her and put his hand over her mouth. 'Why didn't you return my calls?' Bruce asked,' wrote the biographer.

'Did you really think I wouldn't be able to find you?' Bruce dragged her into her dressing room and they made love as quietly as possible, hoping no one would hear them.'

Afterwards, Sharon confessed she'd already 'hooked up' with her co-star, Steve McQueen. 'I'm just using him to get over you,' she told Bruce. 'But we can't do this again, Bruce. I'm so sorry.'

Love life: Behind the camera she was reportedly involved in a love triangle between Steve McQueen and Bruce Lee, the latter of which she described as the 'love of her life'. (pictured in 1963)

Actor: Sharon played Nina Webster on the soap The Young and The Restless between 1991 and 1997 as well as roles in The Man from U.C.L.E, The Six Million Dollar Man and Gunsmoke (pictured in 1972's The Eye's of Charles Sand) 

Goodbye: As well as son Chance, who played a surfer in 90sTV series Harry and the Hendersons and soap General Hospital, Sharon is also survived by grandson Wayde and daughter-in-law Mandi (pictured in 1965) 

The acclaimed and exhaustively-researched 2018 biography, Bruce Lee: A Life, revealed another side to the iconic actor, fighter and philosopher lionized by his army of starry-eyed fans. A controlling and heartless womanizer, Bruce was arrogant, self-righteous and chauvinistic, according to the book.

This is not exactly the image of Lee currently being advanced by his daughter, Shannon Lee, on the 50th anniversary of his death.

Shannon, who was only four when her father died in 1973 aged only 34, has been a loyal and assiduous keeper of the Bruce Lee flame.

She wants the world to know that the star of Enter The Dragon, the film that made his name but premiered a month after his death, was not the pugnacious macho man that fans of his films might have expected but a sensitive soul who rejected toxic, traditional ideas of masculinity.

'As masculine as he appeared physically, through the amount of strength and action of martial arts, there is actually a very inherent sort of softening of his masculinity that I think gets overlooked,' she told NBC last month.

Love: 'Bruce took me to the Moon and back,' Sharon gushed to Lee's 2018 biographer Matthew Polly. 'He just turned me inside out. But he was married and didn't have a pot to pee in' (Bruce pictured in 1970)

Triangle: She said: 'Steve [McQueen] was so successful—he was my protector…I was in lust with Steve, but Bruce was the love of my life' (Sharon and Steve pictured in 1969)

The first Asian acting superstar, Lee was undoubtedly an inspirational figure who did indeed, as his daughter claims, do much to shift the stereotype of Asian men in Hollywood movies as 'weak, emasculated and deferential'.

It was reported that more than 12,000 'screaming fans' mobbed Lee's memorial services in Hong Kong after his sudden and mysterious death from a cerebral edema, or brain swelling, in 1973.

His enduring legacy and mystique has similarly been proudly cherished by many Asian-Americans. Fans regularly make a pilgrimage to his grave in Seattle or quote his quasi-philosophical sayings such as 'Be formless, shapeless, like water.'

For such people, Lee is far more of a spiritual guru than a film star or martial arts fighter.

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