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Born | Dorothy Faye Dunaway January 14, 1941 Bascom, Florida, United States |
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Years active | 1965 – present | ||||||||||||||||||
Spouse(s) | Peter Wolf (1974–1979) Terry O'Neill (1983–1987) |
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Dorothy Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941), known as Faye Dunaway, is an American actress. She has starred in a variety of films, from blockbusters such as The Towering Inferno and the camp classic Mommie Dearest, to the most critically acclaimed including Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown, and Network. She received Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her performances in Bonnie and Clyde and Chinatown, before winning the category with her 1976 performance in Network.
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Dunaway was born in Bascom, Florida, the daughter of Grace April (née Smith), a homemaker, and John MacDowell Dunaway, Jr., a career army officer.[1] She attended the University of Florida,[2] Florida State University,[3] and Boston University, but graduated from the University of Florida in theater. In 1962, Dunaway joined the American National Theater and Academy.
Dunaway appeared on Broadway in 1962 as the daughter of Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons. Her first screen role was in 1967 in The Happening. In 1967 she was in Hurry Sundown, but that same year, she got the leading female role in Bonnie and Clyde (opposite Warren Beatty), which earned her an Oscar nomination. She also starred in 1968 with Steve McQueen in the caper film The Thomas Crown Affair (and had a small role in the 1999 remake with Pierce Brosnan).
It was in the 1970s that she began to stretch her acting muscles in such films as Three Days of the Condor, Little Big Man, Chinatown, The Three/Four Musketeers, Eyes of Laura Mars, and Network, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress as the scheming TV executive Diana Christensen.
In the 1980s, although her performances did not waver, the parts grew less compelling. Dunaway would later blame Mommie Dearest (1981) for ruining her career as a leading lady. Critics panned the movie, and audiences did not like it either, but in later years it would become a cult classic. "I was too good at Crawford," she was often quoted as saying. It can also be said that the dawn of Meryl Streep's reign as queen of dramatic cinema played a role in Dunaway's decline. She played an alcoholic in Barfly (opposite Mickey Rourke). In a later movie, Don Juan DeMarco (1995), Dunaway co-starred with Johnny Depp and Marlon Brando.
Dunaway won an Emmy for a 1994 role as a murderer in "It's All in the Game," an episode of the long-running mystery series Columbo.
She is a three-time Oscar nominee for Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown, and Network, winning for the latter. She has won three Golden Globes, including for the television films Ellis Island (1984) and Gia (1998), and has been nominated for a Golden Globe ten times.
In 1996, she toured nationally with the stage play "Master Class". The story about opera singer Maria Callas was very powerful and well received. Dunaway bought the rights to the Terrence McNally play, for possible film development.
In 2006, Dunaway played a character named Lois O'Neill in the sixth season of the popular crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. She served as a judge on the 2005 reality show The Starlet, which sought, American Idol-style, to find the next young actress with the potential to become a major star. In the spring of 2007, the direct-to-DVD movie release of Rain, based on the novel by V. C. Andrews and starring Dunaway, was released.
Dunaway has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard, which was awarded on October 2, 1996.
Romantically linked to a series of men ranging from the comedian Lenny Bruce to actor Marcello Mastroianni, Dunaway has been married twice. Her first husband, from 1974 until 1979, was Peter Wolf, the lead singer of the rock group the J. Geils Band. Her second, from 1984 until 1987, was Terry O'Neill, a British photographer; they had one child, Liam O'Neill (born 1980). In 2003, however, O'Neill revealed that his son with Dunaway was adopted, not biological, though the actress had long maintained the opposite.
Dunaway is a Roman Catholic.[4]
Year | Film | Role | Other notes |
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1967 | Hurry Sundown | Lou McDowell | |
The Happening | Sandy | ||
Bonnie and Clyde | Bonnie Parker | BAFTA Award; Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actress; Nominated – Golden Globe |
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1968 | The Thomas Crown Affair | Vicki Anderson | |
Amanti | Julia | ||
1969 | The Extraordinary Seaman | Jennifer Winslow | |
The Arrangement | Gwen | ||
A Place for Lovers | Julia | ||
1970 | Little Big Man | Mrs. Louise Pendrake | |
Puzzle of a Downfall Child | Lou Andreas Sand | Nominated – Golden Globe | |
1971 | The Deadly Trap | Jill | |
Doc | Katie Elder | ||
1973 | Oklahoma Crude | Lena Doyle | |
The Three Musketeers | Milady de Winter | ||
1974 | Chinatown | Evelyn Cross Mulwray | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actress; Nominated – BAFTA Award; Nominated – Golden Globe |
The Towering Inferno | Susan Franklin | ||
The Four Musketeers | Milady de Winter | ||
1975 | Three Days of the Condor | Kathy Hale | Nominated – Golden Globe |
1976 | Network | Diana Christensen | Academy Award for Best Actress; Golden Globe; Nominated – BAFTA Award |
Voyage of the Damned | Denise Kreisler | ||
1978 | Eyes of Laura Mars | Laura Mars | |
1979 | The Champ | Annie | |
1980 | The First Deadly Sin | Barbara Delaney | |
1981 | Mommie Dearest | Joan Crawford | Razzie Award for Worst Actress |
Evita Peron | Evita Peron | ||
1983 | The Wicked Lady | Lady Barbara Skelton | |
1984 | Ordeal by Innocence | Rachel Argyle | |
Supergirl | Selena | ||
1985 | Thirteen at Dinner | Jane Wilkinson | |
1987 | Barfly | Wanda Wilcox | Nominated – Golden Globe |
1988 | Midnight Crossing | Helen Barton | |
The Gamble | Countess Matilda Von Wallenstein | La Partita | |
Burning Secret | Mrs. Sonya Tuchman | ||
1989 | Frames from the Edge | Herself | documentary |
On a Moonlit Night | Mrs. Colbert | In una notte di chiaro di luna | |
Wait Until Spring, Bandini | Mrs. Hildegarde | ||
1990 | The Handmaid's Tale | Serena Joy | |
The Two Jakes | Evelyn Mulwray | voice only | |
1991 | Scorchers | Thais | |
1992 | Double Edge | Faye Milano | Lahav Hatzui |
1993 | Arizona Dream | Elaine Stalker | |
The Temp | Charlene Towne | ||
1995 | Unzipped | Herself – uncredited | Documentary |
Don Juan DeMarco | Marilyn Mickler | ||
Drunks | Becky | ||
1996 | Dunston Checks In | Mrs. Dubrow | |
Albino Alligator | Janet Boudreaux | ||
The Chamber | Lee Cayhall Bowen | ||
1997 | In Praise of Older Women | Condesa | |
The Twilight of the Golds | Phyllis Gold | ||
Rebecca | Mrs. van Hopper | TV miniseries | |
1998 | Gia | Wilhelmina Cooper | |
1999 | Love Lies Bleeding | Josephine Butler | |
The Thomas Crown Affair | The Psychiatrist | ||
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc | Yolande D'Aragon | ||
2000 | The Yards | Kitty Olchin | |
Stanley's Gig | Leila | ||
Running Mates | Meg Gable | nominated - Golden Globe | |
2001 | Yellow Bird | Aurora Beavis | Short subject – also director |
Festival in Cannes | Herself | Cameo | |
2002 | Mid-Century | Blue/Mother | |
Changing Hearts | Betty Miller | ||
The Rules of Attraction | Mrs. Eve Denton | ||
Man of Faith | Mae West | ||
2003 | Blind Horizon | Ms. K | |
2004 | Last Goodbye | Sean Winston | |
El Padrino | Atty. Gen. Navarro | ||
Jennifer's Shadow | Mary Ellen Cassi | ||
2005 | Ghosts Never Sleep | Kathleen Dolan | |
2006 | Cut Off | Marilyn Burton | |
Love Hollywood Style | God | ||
Rain | Isabel Hudson | ||
2007 | The Gene Generation | Josephine Hayden | |
Cougar Club | Edith Birnbaum | ||
Say It in Russian | Jacqueline de Rossy | ||
Flick | Lieutenant Annie McKenzie | ||
2008 | Dr. Fugazzi | Detective Rowland | |
Fashion: The Movie | Flora Fortuna |
Guardian interview - www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/oct/07/celebrity
Awards and achievements | ||
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Preceded by Louise Fletcher for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama 1977 for Network |
Succeeded by Jane Fonda for Julia |
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NAME | Dunaway, Faye |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dunaway, Dorothy Faye |
SHORT DESCRIPTION | Academy Award-winning American actress |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1941 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bascom, Florida, U.S. |
DATE OF DEATH | |
PLACE OF DEATH |