Faye Dunaway (born Dorothy Faye Dunaway in January 14, 1941, in Bascom, Florida) is an Academy Award-winning actress. A girl of Grace April Smith & John MacDowell Dunaway, an Army sergeant (making Dunaway an "army brat"), Dunaway studied at a theater department of Boston University and graduated from a University of Florida. She appeared in Broadway in a early Sixties when the girl of Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons.

Her number one screen role was within 1967 in Hurry Sundown, but that equivalent season, she had a leading female role inside Bonnie and Clyde (opposite Warren Beatty) which garnered her an Oscar nomination. It was in the 1970s that she began to stretch her acting muscles in such films when Three Days of the Condor, Puzzle of a Downfall Toddler, Little Large Human, Chinatown, and Network, for which she won her Oscar as a scheming, nearly inhumanly cold-cold TV executive Diana Christensen.

In the 1980s, although her performances did not waver, a area grew less compelling. She played Joan Crawford in the overwrought Mommie Dearest, and a dipsomaniac inside Barfly (opposite Mickey Rourke). Inside the later on pic, Don Juan De Marco (1995), where Dunaway co-starred sustaining Johnny Depp and the late Marlon Brando, a reviewer noted that a actress "appears to have had a major facelift as she's barely recognizable". Writers Sally Ogle Davis & Igor Davis stand quoted 1 unidentified Hollywood producer when stating that Dunaway's "deep-plane" reconstructive surgery got "erased her own face."

Romantically coupled to a series of men ranging from either the comedian Lenny Bruce to actor Marcello Mastroianni, Dunaway has been married twice. Her foremost married man, from either 1974 until 1979, was Peter Wolf, the lead singer of the rock group the J. Geils Band. Her 2nd, from either 1984 until 1987, was Terry O'Neill, a celebrated British photographer; they had one child, Liam O'Neill (born 1980). Inside 2003, but, O'Neill revealed that his boy using Dunaway was adopted, non biological, though a actress got yearn maintained a opposite.

Dunaway is too the convert to Roman Catholicism.

Dunaway has the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard.

She served as a judge on the 2005 reality show The Starlet, which sought, American Idol-style, to find the next young actress by using a expected to be a major star.

Filmography
Hurry Sundown (1967) The Happening (1967) Bonnie and Clyde (1967) The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) Amanti (1968) The Extradordinary Seaman (1969) The Arrangement (1969) Little Big Man (1970) Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970) The Deadly Trap (1971) Doc (1971) Oklahoma Crude (1973) The Three Musketeers (1973) Chinatown (1974) The Towering Inferno (1974) The Four Musketeers (1974) Three Days of the Condor (1975) Network (1976) Voyage of the Damned (1976) Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) The Champ (1979) The First Deadly Sin (1980) Mommie Dearest (1981) The Wicked Lady (1983) Ordeal by Innocence (1984) Supergirl (1984) Barfly (1987) Midnight Crossing (1988) The Gamble (1988) Burning Secret (1988) Frames from the Edge (1989) (documentary) On a Moonlit Night (1989) Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1989) The Handmaid's Tale (1990) The Two Jakes (1990) (voice) Scorchers (1991) Double Edge (1992) Arizona Dream (1993) The Temp (1993) Unzipped (1995) (documentary) Don Juan DeMarco (1995) Drunks (1995) Dunston Checks In (1996) Albino Alligator (1996) The Chamber (1996) In Praise of Older Women (1997) Love Lies Bleeding (1999) The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) The Yards (2000) Stanley's Gig (2000) Yellow Bird (2001) (short subject) Festival in Cannes (2001) Mid-Century (2002) Changing Hearts (2002) The Rules of Attraction (2002) The Calling (2002) Blind Horizon (2003) Ghosts Never Sleep (2004) Last Goodbye (2004) El Padrino (2004) Jennifer's Shadow (2004) Love Hollywood Style (2005) The Gene Generation (2006)

Academy Awards and nominations
1968 nominated Bonnie and Clyde 1975 nominated Chinatown 1977 won Network