FAYE DUNAWAY
Name: Dorothy Faye Dunaway
Born: 14 January 1941 Bascom, Florida, USA
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.
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. 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 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.
Dunaway being interviewed by Army Archerd on the red carpet at the 60th Annual
Academy Awards, April 11, 1988
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. 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.
Name: Dorothy Faye Dunaway
Born: 14 January 1941 Bascom, Florida, USA
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.
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. 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 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.
Dunaway being interviewed by Army Archerd on the red carpet at the 60th Annual
Academy Awards, April 11, 1988
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. 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.