Faye Dunaway

Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941) is a Roman Catholic American actress. 
Dunaway won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Network (1976) after receiving previous nominations for the critically acclaimed films Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Chinatown (1974). She has starred in a variety of films, including The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Little Big Man (1970), The Towering Inferno (1974), Three Days of the Condor (1975) and Mommie Dearest (1981). 
==Early life==
Dunaway was born Dorothy Faye Dunaway in Bascom, Florida, the daughter of Grace April (née Smith), a housewife, and John MacDowell Dunaway, Jr., a career army non-commissioned officer.Faye Dunaway biography. Film Reference.com. She attended the University of Florida,Faye Dunaway. Yahoo Movies. Florida State University,Office of Greek Life. 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 The Happening. In 1967, she was in Hurry Sundown, but that same year, she gained the leading female role in Bonnie and Clyde opposite Warren Beatty, which earned her an Oscar nomination. She 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 the same title with Pierce Brosnan).
It was in the 1970s that she began to stretch her acting abilities in such films as Three Days of the Condor, Little Big Man, Chinatown, The Three/Four Musketeers, Eyes of Laura Mars, and Network, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress as the scheming TV executive Diana Christensen. She worked with such leading men as Dustin Hoffman, Charlton Heston, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Tommy Lee Jones, Jack Nicholson and Robert Duvall.
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. She received a Razzie Award for Worst Actress, and the critic's despised the film, although the film grossed a moderate $19 million in its first release and was one of the top 30 grossing films of the year. In 1987 she was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for her performance in Barfly with Mickey Rourke. In a later movie, Don Juan DeMarco (1995), Dunaway co-starred with Johnny Depp and Marlon Brando. 
Dunaway starred in the 1986 made-for-television movie Beverly Hills Madam opposite Melody Anderson, Donna Dixon, Terry Farrell and Robin Givens. In 1993, Dunaway briefly starred in a sitcom with Robert Urich, It Had to Be You. 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.
In 1996, she toured nationally with the stage play Master Class. The story about opera singer Maria Callas was very powerful and well received. Dunaway bought the rights to the Terrence McNally play for possible film development.
In 2006, Dunaway played a character named Lois O'Neill in the sixth season of the 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. In 2009 Dunaway stars in film The Bait by Polish film director and producer Dariusz Zawiślak.The Bait is a contemporary version of a drama Balladyna by Polish 19th - century poet Juliusz Słowacki.
Dunaway has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard, which was awarded on October 2, 1996.
==Personal life==
Dunaway has been married twice, from 1974 to 1979 to Peter Wolf, the lead singer of the rock group The J. Geils Band, and from 1984 to 1987 to Terry O'Neill, a British photographer. She and O'Neill have one child, Liam O'Neill (born 1980). In 2003, despite Dunaway's earlier claims that she had given birth to Liam, Terry revealed that Liam was adopted.
Dunaway is an adult convert to Roman Catholicism.
==Filmography==
Year	Film 	Role 	Notes
1967	Hurry Sundown 	Lou McDowell 	Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles also for Bonnie and Clyde
1967	The Happening 	Sandy 	
1967	Bonnie and Clyde 	Bonnie Parker 	Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles also for Hurry SundownNominated — Academy Award for Best ActressNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
1968	The Thomas Crown Affair 	Vicki Anderson 	
1968	Amanti 	Julia 	
1969	The Extraordinary Seaman 	Jennifer Winslow 	
1969	The Arrangement 	Gwen 	
1969	A Place for Lovers 	Julia 	
1970	Little Big Man 	Mrs. Louise Pendrake 	
1970	Puzzle of a Downfall Child 	Lou Andreas Sand 	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
1971	The Deadly Trap 	Jill 	
1971	Doc 	Katie Elder 	
1973	Oklahoma Crude 	Lena Doyle 	
1973	The Three Musketeers 	Milady de Winter 	
1974	Chinatown 	Evelyn Cross Mulwray 	Nominated — Academy Award for Best ActressNominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading RoleNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
1974	The Towering Inferno 	Susan Franklin 	
1974	The Four Musketeers 	Milady de Winter 	
1975	Three Days of the Condor 	Kathy Hale 	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
1976	Network 	Diana Christensen 	Academy Award for Best ActressDavid di Donatello for Best Foreign ActressGolden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture DramaKansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best ActressNominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
1976	Voyage of the Damned 	Denise Kreisler 	
1978	Eyes of Laura Mars 	Laura Mars 	
1979	The Champ 	Annie 	
1980	The First Deadly Sin 	Barbara Delaney 	
1981	Mommie Dearest 	Joan Crawford 	Razzie Award for Worst Actress
1981	Evita Peron 	Evita Peron 	
1983	The Wicked Lady 	Lady Barbara Skelton 	
1984	Ordeal by Innocence 	Rachel Argyle 	
1984	Supergirl 	Selena 	
1984	Ellis Island 	Maud Charteris 	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
1984	Terror in the Aisles 	 	archival footage
1985	Thirteen at Dinner 	Jane Wilkinson 	
1986	Raspberry Ripple 	Matron + "M" 	
1987	Barfly 	Wanda Wilcox 	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
1988	Midnight Crossing 	Helen Barton 	
1988	The Gamble 	Countess Matilda Von Wallenstein	La Partita
1988	Burning Secret 	Mrs. Sonya Tuchman 	
1989	Frames from the Edge 	Herself 	documentary
1989	On a Moonlit Night 	Mrs. Colbert 	In una notte di chiaro di luna
1989	Wait Until Spring, Bandini 	Mrs. Hildegarde 	
1990	The Handmaid's Tale 	Serena Joy 	
1990	The Two Jakes 	Evelyn Mulwray 	voice only
1991	Scorchers 	Thais 	
1992	Double Edge 	Faye Milano 	Lahav Hatzui
1993	Arizona Dream 	Elaine Stalker 	
1993	The Temp 	Charlene Towne 	
1995	Unzipped 	Herself – uncredited 	Documentary
1995	Don Juan DeMarco 	Marilyn Mickler 	
1995	Drunks 	Becky 	
1996	Dunston Checks In 	Mrs. Dubrow 	
1996	Albino Alligator 	Janet Boudreaux 	
1996	The Chamber 	Lee Cayhall Bowen 	
1997	In Praise of Older Women 	Condesa 	
1997	The Twilight of the Golds 	Phyllis Gold 	Nominated — CableACE Award for Supporting Actress in a Movie or MiniseriesNominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
1997	Rebecca 	Mrs. van Hopper 	TV miniseries
1998	Gia 	Wilhelmina Cooper 	Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television FilmNominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
1999	Love Lies Bleeding 	Josephine Butler 	
1999	The Thomas Crown Affair 	The Psychiatrist 	
1999	The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc	Yolande of Aragon 	
2000	The Yards 	Kitty Olchin 	
2000	Stanley's Gig 	Leila 	
2000	Running Mates 	Meg Gable 	Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
2001	Yellow Bird 	Aurora Beavis 	Short subject – also director
2001	Festival in Cannes 	Herself 	Cameo
2002	Mid-Century 	Blue/Mother 	
2002	Changing Hearts 	Betty Miller 	
2002	The Rules of Attraction 	Mrs. Eve Denton 	
2002	Man of Faith 	Mae West 	
2003	Blind Horizon 	Ms. K 	
2004	Last Goodbye 	Sean Winston 	
2004	El Padrino 	Atty. Gen. Navarro 	
2004	Jennifer's Shadow 	Mary Ellen Cassi 	
2005	Ghosts Never Sleep 	Kathleen Dolan 	
2006	Cut Off 	Marilyn Burton 	
2006	Love Hollywood Style 	God 	
2006	Rain 	Isabel Hudson 	
2007	Cougar Club 	Edith Birnbaum 	
2007	Say It in Russian 	Jacqueline de Rossy 	
2007	The Gene Generation 	Josephine Hayden 	
2008	Flick 	Lieutenant Annie McKenzie 	
2008	La Rabbia 	Madre 	
2009	Dr. Fugazzi 	Detective Rowland 	
2009	Midnight Bayou 	Odette 	Lifetime made-for-TV movie
2009	Caroline & The Magic Stone 	Filomena 	
2009	Balladyna 	Dr Ash 	USA-Poland co-production
==Guest appearances==
*Grey's Anatomy - Season 5, Episode 16 "An Honest Mistake" as Dr. Margaret Campbell (2009)
*CSI: Crime Scene Investigation "Kiss-Kiss, Bye-Bye" January 26, 2006
*Alias "The Abduction" (2002); "A Higher Echelon" (2003); "The Getaway" (2003), as Ariana Kane
*Soul Food - Season 3, Episode 1 - "Tonight at Noon" (2002)
*Road to Avonlea - Season 6, Episode 76 - "What a Tangled Web We Weave" (1995)
*Columbo: It's All in the Game (1993), as Lauren Staton
==References==
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* Faye Dunaway interview with The Guardian
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