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Faye Dunaway
Faye Dunaway at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001
Born
Dorothy Faye Dunaway
Spouse(s)Peter Wolf (1974-1979)
Terry O'Neill (1983-1987)

Dorothy Faye Dunaway (born on January 14, 1941) is an Academy Award, Emmy Award and multi-Golden Globe Award winning American actress known professionally as Faye Dunaway. Over the course of her more than five decade career Dunaway has starred in a variety of films, from the most critically acclaimed including Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown and Network, to blockbusters such as The Towering Inferno and the notorious such as the cult classic Mommie Dearest.

Biography

Early life

Dunaway was born in Bascom, Florida to Grace April Smith, a homemaker, and John MacDowell Dunaway, Jr., a career army officer.[1] She attended the University of Florida[2] and Florida State University[1], and Boston University. In 1962 Dunaway joined the American National Theatre 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 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.

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Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)

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, 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 and audiences alike couldn't decide whether the film was drama or comedy, never a good situation for an actress to find herself. "I was too good at Crawford," she was often quoted as saying.[citation needed] 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.

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 celebrated 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 convert to Roman Catholicism.[3]

In an angry February 27, 2006 voice mail message (which was widely circulated on the Internet) to the producer of a documentary of her life, Dunaway complained about the inclusion of an interview with her ex-husband O'Neill, who she called "a big, big liar" and "a man I will not even waste my time discussing" in her own interview for the film. She also insisted that references to "the Lloyd Webber stupidity" be taken out, referring to Dunaway's alleged 1994 firing from the Los Angeles production Sunset Boulevard by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. She also expressed anger that there was no mention that she'd worked with "the wonderful Marlon Brando", and that her film Arizona Dream (referred to as "the Kusturica film") which she "was brilliant in," was "not well sold in this country" despite that it was "the hit of all Europe and Cannes." She was unhappy that no mention was made in the documentary about her work in the 1993 drama or in Don Juan DeMarco, which also co-starred Johnny Depp. She also said she wanted to "really trim down everything to do with that Mommie Dearest. I'm not going to talk about it; maybe one thing I'm going to say about it and that's all."[4]

Filmography

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Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker in Bonnie and Clyde
Dunaway being interviewed by Army Archerd on the red carpet at the 60th Annual Academy Awards, April 11, 1988

Guest appearances

Academy Awards and nominations

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Preceded by Academy Award for Best Actress
1976
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Preceded by Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
1977
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References

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  1. ^ http://www.filmreference.com/film/11/Faye-Dunaway.html
  2. ^ http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800019684/bio
  3. ^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmesq/is_199908/ai_kepm171506
  4. ^ "WorldofWonder.net item on and recording of Faye Dunaway voicemail". Retrieved December 8. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)


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