Short answers, pulled from the story.
Pasiphaë was the queen of Crete and a daughter of Helios, the sun god, and the Oceanid Perse. She was the mother of the Minotaur, born after Poseidon cursed her with desire for the Cretan Bull as punishment for her husband Minos refusing to sacrifice it.
Pasiphaë did not fall in love willingly. Poseidon cursed her with an uncontrollable desire for the Cretan Bull after her husband Minos broke his vow to sacrifice the bull to the god. Some versions attribute the curse to Aphrodite instead, either because Pasiphaë neglected her worship or because Helios had exposed Aphrodite's affair with Ares.
Daedalus built a hollow wooden cow covered in real cowhide for Pasiphaë at her request. The device was realistic enough to deceive the Cretan Bull, allowing Pasiphaë to hide inside it and mate with the animal, which led to the birth of the Minotaur.
With Minos, Pasiphaë was the mother of eight children: Acacallis, Ariadne, Androgeus, Glaucus, Deucalion, Phaedra, Xenodice, and Catreus. She also gave birth to the Minotaur, known by his given name Asterion or Asterius, after her coupling with the Cretan Bull.
Pasiphaë was worshipped as an oracular goddess at a shrine in Thalamae, one of the original koine of Sparta. The Spartan ephors slept at her shrine to receive prophetic dreams, and according to Plutarch, oracles from the shrine twice triggered major upheavals in Spartan society during the Hellenistic era.
One of Jupiter's moons is named Pasiphaë after the queen of Crete in the Minotaur myth. The moon was discovered in 1908.