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Birth Place: Bascom, FL, USA

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BIO

Dorothy Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941) is an American actress. She is the recipient of many accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and a BAFTA Award. In 2011, the government of France made her an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters.



Her career began in the early 1960s on Broadway. She made her screen debut in 1967 in The Happening, the same year she made Hurry Sundown with an all-star cast, and rose to fame with her portrayal of outlaw Bonnie Parker in Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, for which she received her first Academy Award nomination. Her most notable films include the crime caper The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), the romantic drama The Arrangement (1969), the revisionist western Little Big Man (1970), a two-part adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas classic The Three Musketeers (1973, with The Four Musketeers following in 1974), the neo-noir mystery Chinatown (1974) for which she earned her second Oscar nomination, the action-drama disaster The Towering Inferno (1974), the political thriller Three Days of the Condor (1975), the satire Network (1976) for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress, the thriller Eyes of Laura Mars (1978), and the sports drama The Champ (1979).

Her career evolved to more mature character roles in subsequent years often in independent features, beginning with her controversial portrayal of Joan Crawford in the 1981 biopic Mommie Dearest. Later films include Supergirl (1984), Barfly (1987), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), Arizona Dream (1994), Don Juan DeMarco (1995), The Twilight of the Golds (1997), Gia (1998), The Rules of Attraction (2002), and The Bye Bye Man (2017). Dunaway has also performed on stage in several plays, including A Man for All Seasons (1961–63), After the Fall (1964), Hogan's Goat (1965–67), and A Streetcar Named Desire (1973). She was awarded the Sarah Siddons Award for her portrayal of opera singer Maria Callas in Master Class (1996).

Protective of her private life, she rarely gives interviews and makes very few public appearances. After romantic relationships with Jerry Schatzberg and Marcello Mastroianni, Dunaway married twice, first to singer Peter Wolf and then to photographer Terry O'Neill, with whom she had a son, Liam.

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STAGE CREDITS

[Broadway]
Unknown, 1982
Fran Duffy

Frances Anna Duffy

Frances Anna Duffy Walsh

Frances Walsh

[Broadway]
1964
Performer

[Broadway]
1964
Faith Prosper

[Broadway]
1964
Nurse

[Broadway]
1961
Margaret More [Replacement]


Awards and Nominations


winner
Theatre World Awards - 1966 - Performance

Faye Dunaway, Hogan's Goat

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How many Broadway shows has Faye Dunaway been in?

Faye Dunaway has appeared on Broadway in 5 shows.

How many West End shows has Faye Dunaway been in?

Faye Dunaway has not appeared in the West End.

What awards has Faye Dunaway been nominated for?

and Performance (Theatre World Awards) for Hogan's Goat.

What awards has Faye Dunaway won?

Faye Dunaway has won a Theatre World Award for her performance in Hogan's Goat.

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