Everything about Faye Dunaway totally explained
Dorothy Faye Dunaway (born on
January 14,
1941) is an
American Academy Award,
Emmy Award and multi-
Golden Globe Award winning
actress. 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 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. She attended the
University of Florida,
Florida State University, 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
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. The actress 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,
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 didn't 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. 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 10 times.
In 2006, Dunaway played a character named Lois O'Neill in the sixth season of the popular crime drama . 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'd 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.
Filmography
Guest appearances
Further Information
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