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Also known as Dorothy Faye Dunaway

American actress

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Faye Dunaway is an American television and film actor, screenwriter, and producer. Born in Bascom, Florida, in 1941, she began her work period in 1962. She was educated at the University of Florida, Florida State University, and HB Studio. Her professional work location is the United States, and she writes in English.

Dunaway has received several awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award, an Academy Award for Best Actress, a Theatre World Award, and a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress. She has also been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress. She is recognized in the Academy Award Best Actress collection and the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection.

She has been married to Peter Wolf and Terry O'Neill, and was unmarried partner to Marcello Mastroianni. Dunaway speaks and writes in English. She has a medical condition of bipolar disorder.

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Bascom, Florida, USA

Dorothy Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941) is a European-American actress. She is the recipient of such accolades as an Academy Award, three Golden Globes, and a British Academy Film Award. Her career began in the early 1960s on Broadway. She made her screen debut in the 1967 film The Happening, and rose to fame that same year with her portrayal of outlaw Bonnie Parker in Arthur Penn's Bonnie…

Known for

  • Faye — Self2024
  • Hollywood Black — Self (archive footage)2024
  • The Man Who Drew God — Tasha2023
  • Commitment to Life — Self (archive footage)2023
  • Mickey Rourke: Just Like a Man2022
  • Valerie2019
  • Becoming Iconic — Self2018
  • Hollywood: No Sex, Please!2018
  • The Bye Bye Man — Widow Redmon2017
  • The Case for Christ — Dr. Roberta Waters2017

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Instance of
human
Given name
Faye
Gender
female
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Bascom
Occupation
film director
Educated at
HB Studio
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
English language
Image
Faye Dunaway 2024.jpg
Work location
United States
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date of birth
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unmarried partner
Marcello Mastroianni
start of work period
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name in native language
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writing language
English language
medical condition
bipolar disorder
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Encyclopedic overview

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.

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).

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