Faye Dunaway Biography, Age, Movies, Young, Today, Hot And Net Worth

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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.

Faye Dunaway arrives for the 89th annual Academy Awards in Hollywood
Faye Dunaway arrives for the 89th annual Academy Awards in Hollywood

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.

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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
2017
Widow Redmond
Stacy Title
The Case for Christ
2017
Dr. Roberta Waters
Jon Gunn
Inconceivable
2017
Danna
Jonathan Baker
Master Class [a]
2014
Maria Callas
Faye Dunaway
The Magic Stone
2009
Filomena
Jowita Gondek
Balladyna
2009
Therapist
Dariusz Zawiślak
21 and a Wake-Up
2009
Major Rose Thorn
Chris McIntyre
The Rage
2008
Madre
Louis Nero
Flick
2008
Lieutenant Annie McKenzie
David Howard
Cougar Club
2007
Edith Birnbaum
Christopher Duddy
Say It in Russian
2007
Jacqueline de Rossy
Jeff Celentano
The Gene Generation
2007
Josephine Hayden
Pearry Reginald Teo
Love Hollywood Style
2006
God
Michael Stein
Rain
2006
Isabel Hudson
Andrew Neiderman
Cut Off
2006
Marilyn Burton
Gino Cabanas and Dick Fisher
Ghosts Never Sleep
2005
Kathleen Dolan
Steve Freedman
Last Goodbye
2004
Sean Winston
Jacob Gentry
El Padrino
2004
Atty. Gen. Navarro
Damian Chapa
Jennifer’s Shadow
2004
Mary Ellen Cassi
Pablo Parés and Daniel de la Vega
Blind Horizon
2003
Mrs. K
Michael Haussman
Changing Hearts
2002
Betty Miller
Martin Guigui
The Rules of Attraction
2002
Mrs. Eve Denton
Roger Avary
The Calling
2002
Mae West
Damian Chapa
The Yellow Bird
2001
Aurora Beavis
Faye Dunaway
The Yards
2000
Kitty Olchin
James Gray
Stanley’s Gig
2000
Leila
Marc Lazard
Love Lies Bleeding
1999
Josephine Butler
William Tannen
The Thomas Crown Affair
1999
The Psychiatrist
John McTiernan
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999
Yolande of Aragon
Luc Besson
En brazos de la mujer madura
1997
Condesa
Manuel Lombardero
Dunston Checks In
1996
Elena Dubrow
Ken Kwapis
Albino Alligator
1996
Janet Boudreaux
Kevin Spacey
The Twilight of the Golds
1996
Phyllis Gold
Ross Kagan Marks
The Chamber
1996
Lee Cayhall Bowen
James Foley
Drunks
1995
Becky
Peter Cohn
Don Juan DeMarco
1994
Marilyn Mickler
Jeremy Leven
Arizona Dream
1993
Elaine Stalker
Emir Kusturica
The Temp
1993
Charlene Towne
Tom Holland
Double Edge
1992
Faye Milano
Amos Kollek
Scorchers
1991
Thais
David Beaird
The Handmaid’s Tale
1990
Serena Joy
Volker Schlöndorff
The Two Jakes
1990
Evelyn Mulwray
Jack Nicholson
Crystal or Ash, Fire or Wind, as Long as It’s Love
1989
Mrs. Colbert
Lina Wertmüller
Wait Until Spring, Bandini
1989
Mrs. Hildegarde
Dominique Deruddere
Midnight Crossing
1988
Helen Barton
Roger Holzberg
The Gamble
1988
Countess Matilda Von Wallenstein
Carlo Vanzina
Burning Secret
1988
Mrs. Sonya Tuchman
Andrew Birkin
Barfly
1987
Wanda Wilcox
Barbet Schroeder
Ordeal by Innocence
1984
Rachel Argyle
Desmond Davis
Supergirl
1984
Selena
Jeannot Szwarc
The Wicked Lady
1983
Lady Barbara Skelton
Michael Winner
Mommie Dearest
1981
Joan Crawford
Frank Perry
The First Deadly Sin
1980
Barbara Delaney
Brian G. Hutton
The Champ
1979
Annie
Franco Zeffirelli
Eyes of Laura Mars
1978
Laura Mars
Irvin Kershner
Voyage of the Damned
1976
Denise Kreisler
Stuart Rosenberg
Network
1976
Diana Christensen
Sidney Lumet
Three Days of the Condor
1975
Kathy Hale
Sydney Pollack
Chinatown
1974
Evelyn Cross Mulwray
Roman Polanski
The Towering Inferno
1974
Susan Franklin
John Guillermin
The Four Musketeers
1974
Milady de Winter
Richard Lester
Oklahoma Crude
1973
Lena Doyle
Stanley Kramer
The Three Musketeers
1973
Milady de Winter
Richard Lester
The Deadly Trap
1971
Jill
René Clément
Doc
1971
Katie Elder
Frank Perry
Little Big Man
1970
Mrs. Louise Pandrake
Arthur Penn
Puzzle of a Downfall Child
1970
Lou Andreas Sand
Jerry Schatzberg
The Extraordinary Seaman
1969
Jennifer Winslow
John Frankenheimer
The Arrangement
1969
Gwen
Elia Kazan
The Thomas Crown Affair
1968
Vicki Anderson
Norman Jewison
A Place for Lovers
1968
Julia
Vittorio De Sica
The Happening
1967
Sandy
Elliot Silverstein
Hurry Sundown
1967
Lou McDowell
Otto Preminger
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.

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