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Faye Dunaway
Dunaway at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
Born	Dorothy Faye Dunaway January 14, 1941 (1941-01-14) (age 67) Bascom, Florida, United States
Years active	1965 – present
Spouse(s)	Peter Wolf (1974–1979) Terry O'Neill (1983–1987)
Awards won Academy Awards Best Actress 1976 Network BAFTA Awards Best Newcomer 1967 Bonnie and Clyde ; Hurry Sundown Emmy Awards Outstanding Guest Actress – Drama Series 1994 Columbo Golden Globe Awards Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama 1977 Network Best Supporting Actress – Miniseries 1985 Ellis Island 1999 Gia

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.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 1.3 Personal life 2 Filmography 3 Guest appearances 4 References 5 External links

Biography

Early life

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.

Career

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.^{citation needed} 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.

Personal life

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.^{citation needed}

Dunaway is a Roman Catholic.⁴

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Other notes
1967	Hurry Sundown	Lou McDowell
	The Happening	Sandy
	Bonnie and Clyde	Bonnie Parker	BAFTA Award; Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actress; Nominated – Golden Globe
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

Guest appearances

• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation "Kiss-Kiss, Bye-Bye" January 26, 2006
• Alias "The Abduction" (2002); "A Higher Echelon" (2003); "The Getaway" (2003), as Ariana Kane
• Columbo: It's All in the Game (1993), as Lauren Staton

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Faye Dunaway

External links

• Faye Dunaway at the Internet Movie Database
• Faye Dunaway at Yahoo! Movies

Guardian interview - www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/oct/07/celebrity

Awards and achievements
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

v • d • e Academy Award for Best Actress Sophia Loren (1961) · Anne Bancroft (1962) · Patricia Neal (1963) · Julie Andrews (1964) · Julie Christie (1965) · Elizabeth Taylor (1966) · Katharine Hepburn (1967) · Katharine Hepburn / Barbra Streisand (1968) · Maggie Smith (1969) · Glenda Jackson (1970) · Jane Fonda (1971)  · Liza Minnelli (1972) · Glenda Jackson (1973) · Ellen Burstyn (1974) · Louise Fletcher (1975) · Faye Dunaway (1976) · Diane Keaton (1977) · Jane Fonda (1978) · Sally Field (1979) · Sissy Spacek (1980) Complete list · (1928–1940) · (1941–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001-present)

v • d • e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Drama Series Zohra Lampert (1974) · Fionnuala Flanagan (1976) · Beulah Bondi (1977) · Rita Moreno (1978) · Alfre Woodard (1987) · Shirley Knight (1988) · Kay Lenz (1989) · Viveca Lindfors (1990) · Peggy McCay (1991) · Elaine Stritch (1993) · Faye Dunaway (1994) · Shirley Knight (1995) · Amanda Plummer (1996) · Dianne Wiest (1997) · Cloris Leachman (1998) · Debra Monk (1999) · Beah Richards (2000) Complete list: (1974-2000) · (2001-present)

Persondata
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