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Faye Dunaway Biography
Faye Dunaway is an American actress. She is well known as the first recipient of a Leopard Club Award that honors film professionals whose work has left a mark on the collective imagination. Fay has also won an Academy Award, three Golden Globes, a BAFTA, and an Emmy, Leopard Club Award. The government of France made her an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2011.

Fay’s career started in the early 1960s on Broadway. In 1967 film The Happening she made her screen debut, and rose to fame that same year with her portrayal of outlaw Bonnie Parker in Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde, for which she received her first Academy Award nomination
Fay’s career grew to more mature and character roles in subsequent years, often in independent films, beginning with her controversial portrayal of Joan Crawford in the 1981 film Mommie Dearest.
Faye Dunaway Age | How Old Is Faye Dunaway
Fay was born on January 14, 1941 in Bascom, Florida. She is 78 years old as of 2019.
Faye Dunaway Height
Fay stands at a height of 1.7 m.
Faye Dunaway Young | Fay Dunaway Family | Fay Dunaway Parents
Fay was born in Bascom, Florida. She is the daughter of Grace April a housewife, and John MacDowell Dunaway, Jr., a career non-commissioned officer in the United States Army. Fay is of Scots-Irish, English, and German descent. She spent her childhood traveling throughout the United States and Europe.
Faye Dunaway Education
Fay took dance classes, tap, piano and singing. She graduated from Leon High School in Tallahassee, FL and then studied at Florida State University and University of Florida. She also graduated from Boston University with a degree in theater.
Fay spent the summer before her senior year in a summer stock company at Harvard’s Loeb Drama Center, where one of her co-players was Jane Alexander, the actress and future head of the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1962, at the age of 21, she took acting classes at the American National Theater and Academy.
She was recognized by Lloyd Richards while performing in a production of The Crucible, and was recommended to director Elia Kazan, who was in search of young talent for his Lincoln Center Repertory Company. She also studied acting at HB Studio in New York City
Faye Dunaway Husband
Fay is protective of her private life. She rarely gives interviews, and she also makes very few public appearances. She had a romantic relationships with Jerry Schatzberg and Marcello Mastroianni. She married twice, first with singer Peter Wolf and then with photographer Terry O’Neill, with whom she had a son, Liam.
Faye Dunaway Movies | Faye Dunaway Films
Title |
Year |
Role(s) |
Director(s) |
The Bye Bye Man
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2017
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Widow Redmond
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Stacy Title
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The Case for Christ
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2017
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Dr. Roberta Waters
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Jon Gunn
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Inconceivable
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2017
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Danna
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Jonathan Baker
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Master Class [a]
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2014
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Maria Callas
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Faye Dunaway
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The Magic Stone
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2009
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Filomena
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Jowita Gondek
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Balladyna
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2009
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Therapist
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Dariusz Zawiślak
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21 and a Wake-Up
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2009
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Major Rose Thorn
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Chris McIntyre
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The Rage
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2008
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Madre
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Louis Nero
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Flick
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2008
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Lieutenant Annie McKenzie
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David Howard
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Cougar Club
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2007
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Edith Birnbaum
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Christopher Duddy
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Say It in Russian
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2007
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Jacqueline de Rossy
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Jeff Celentano
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The Gene Generation
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2007
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Josephine Hayden
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Pearry Reginald Teo
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Love Hollywood Style
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2006
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God
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Michael Stein
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Rain
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2006
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Isabel Hudson
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Andrew Neiderman
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Cut Off
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2006
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Marilyn Burton
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Gino Cabanas and Dick Fisher
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Ghosts Never Sleep
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2005
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Kathleen Dolan
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Steve Freedman
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Last Goodbye
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2004
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Sean Winston
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Jacob Gentry
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El Padrino
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2004
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Atty. Gen. Navarro
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Damian Chapa
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Jennifer’s Shadow
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2004
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Mary Ellen Cassi
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Pablo Parés and Daniel de la Vega
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Blind Horizon
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2003
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Mrs. K
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Michael Haussman
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Changing Hearts
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2002
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Betty Miller
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Martin Guigui
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The Rules of Attraction
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2002
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Mrs. Eve Denton
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Roger Avary
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The Calling
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2002
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Mae West
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Damian Chapa
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The Yellow Bird
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2001
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Aurora Beavis
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Faye Dunaway
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The Yards
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2000
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Kitty Olchin
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James Gray
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Stanley’s Gig
|
2000
|
Leila
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Marc Lazard
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Love Lies Bleeding
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1999
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Josephine Butler
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William Tannen
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The Thomas Crown Affair
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1999
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The Psychiatrist
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John McTiernan
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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
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1999
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Yolande of Aragon
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Luc Besson
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En brazos de la mujer madura
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1997
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Condesa
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Manuel Lombardero
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Dunston Checks In
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1996
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Elena Dubrow
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Ken Kwapis
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Albino Alligator
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1996
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Janet Boudreaux
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Kevin Spacey
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The Twilight of the Golds
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1996
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Phyllis Gold
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Ross Kagan Marks
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The Chamber
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1996
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Lee Cayhall Bowen
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James Foley
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Drunks
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1995
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Becky
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Peter Cohn
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Don Juan DeMarco
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1994
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Marilyn Mickler
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Jeremy Leven
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Arizona Dream
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1993
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Elaine Stalker
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Emir Kusturica
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The Temp
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1993
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Charlene Towne
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Tom Holland
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Double Edge
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1992
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Faye Milano
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Amos Kollek
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Scorchers
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1991
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Thais
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David Beaird
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The Handmaid’s Tale
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1990
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Serena Joy
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Volker Schlöndorff
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The Two Jakes
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1990
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Evelyn Mulwray
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Jack Nicholson
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Crystal or Ash, Fire or Wind, as Long as It’s Love
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1989
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Mrs. Colbert
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Lina Wertmüller
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Wait Until Spring, Bandini
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1989
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Mrs. Hildegarde
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Dominique Deruddere
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Midnight Crossing
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1988
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Helen Barton
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Roger Holzberg
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The Gamble
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1988
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Countess Matilda Von Wallenstein
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Carlo Vanzina
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Burning Secret
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1988
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Mrs. Sonya Tuchman
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Andrew Birkin
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Barfly
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1987
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Wanda Wilcox
|
Barbet Schroeder
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Ordeal by Innocence
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1984
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Rachel Argyle
|
Desmond Davis
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Supergirl
|
1984
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Selena
|
Jeannot Szwarc
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The Wicked Lady
|
1983
|
Lady Barbara Skelton
|
Michael Winner
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Mommie Dearest
|
1981
|
Joan Crawford
|
Frank Perry
|
The First Deadly Sin
|
1980
|
Barbara Delaney
|
Brian G. Hutton
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The Champ
|
1979
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Annie
|
Franco Zeffirelli
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Eyes of Laura Mars
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1978
|
Laura Mars
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Irvin Kershner
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Voyage of the Damned
|
1976
|
Denise Kreisler
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Stuart Rosenberg
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Network
|
1976
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Diana Christensen
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Sidney Lumet
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Three Days of the Condor
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1975
|
Kathy Hale
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Sydney Pollack
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Chinatown
|
1974
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Evelyn Cross Mulwray
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Roman Polanski
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The Towering Inferno
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1974
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Susan Franklin
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John Guillermin
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The Four Musketeers
|
1974
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Milady de Winter
|
Richard Lester
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Oklahoma Crude
|
1973
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Lena Doyle
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Stanley Kramer
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The Three Musketeers
|
1973
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Milady de Winter
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Richard Lester
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The Deadly Trap
|
1971
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Jill
|
René Clément
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Doc
|
1971
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Katie Elder
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Frank Perry
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Little Big Man
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1970
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Mrs. Louise Pandrake
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Arthur Penn
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Puzzle of a Downfall Child
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1970
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Lou Andreas Sand
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Jerry Schatzberg
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The Extraordinary Seaman
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1969
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Jennifer Winslow
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John Frankenheimer
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The Arrangement
|
1969
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Gwen
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Elia Kazan
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The Thomas Crown Affair
|
1968
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Vicki Anderson
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Norman Jewison
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A Place for Lovers
|
1968
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Julia
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Vittorio De Sica
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The Happening
|
1967
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Sandy
|
Elliot Silverstein
|
Hurry Sundown
|
1967
|
Lou McDowell
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Otto Preminger
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Bonnie and Clyde
|
1967
|
Bonnie Parker
|
Arthur Penn
|
Faye Dunaway Bonnie And Clyde
After director Arthur Penn saw Fay’s scenes from The Happening before its release, he decided to let her read for the role of the bank robber Bonnie Parker for his upcoming film, Bonnie and Clyde.
Penn loved Dunaway and managed to convince actor and producer, Warren Beatty, who played Clyde Barrow in the film, that she was right for the part
Faye Dunaway Now | Faye Dunaway Today |
It was announced in December 2018, that Faye will return to Broadway more than 35 years since her performance in The Curse of the Aching Heart. Fay will be starring as Katharine Hepburn in an updated version of Matthew Lombardo’s one-woman play Tea at Five, which was first staged at Hartford Stage in 2002. The production will mark the play’s Broadway premiere, and will run as a strictly limited engagement in the summer of 2019.
Faye Dunaway Mommie Dearest
In 1981 Fay portrayed actress Joan Crawford in the adaptation of her daughter Christina’s controversial memoirs, Mommie Dearest. In her role she had depicted her adopted mother as an abusive tyrant, who only adopted her four children to promote her acting career, making quite a stir as the first celebrity tell-all book.
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Faye Dunaway Oscar | Faye Dunaway Awards
Fay has been honored with a number of accolades. Among them, she was won an Academy Award, three Golden Globes, a BAFTA, an Emmy, two David di Donatello, and was the first-ever recipient of a Leopard Club Award which honors film professionals whose work has left a mark on the collective imagination.
Academy Awards
Year |
Nominated work |
1968 |
Bonnie and Clyde |
1975 |
Chinatown |
1977 |
Network |
British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards
Year |
Nominated work |
1968 |
Bonnie and Clyde & Hurry Sundown |
1975 |
Chinatown |
1978 |
Network |
Screen Actors Guild Awards
The Twilight of the Golds – 1998
Faye Dunaway Chinatown
Fay was offered by Director Roman Polanski the lead role of Evelyn Mulwray in his mystery neo-noir Chinatown (1974). Its producer, Robert Evans, wanted Polanski to consider Jane Fonda for the role, arguing that Fay had a reputation for temperament but Polanski insisted on using Fay.
Faye Dunaway Network
In 1993 Fay appeared in the Paddy Chayefsky-scripted satire Network as the scheming TV executive Diana Christensen, a ruthless woman who will do anything for higher ratings.
Faye Dunaway Supergirl
Supergirl stars Helen Slater as Supergirl, along with Faye Dunaway, Mia Farrow, and Peter O’Toole, with Marc McClure reprising his role as Jimmy Olsen from the Superman films.
Faye Dunaway Net Worth
who has a net worth of $40 million.