Birth Name: Dorothy Faye Dunaway
Nickname: Miss Faye
Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m)
She was one of the hottest acresses in the 1970s playing neurotic, highly driven woman with sex appeal
Biography and Career:
Faye Dunaway was born on January 14, 1941 in Bascom, Florida, daughter of Grace April and John MacDowell Dunaway, an army non-commissioned officer. She is an American Acress.
She graduated from the "University of Florida" in theater. In 1962, Dunaway joined the "American National Theater and Academy".
In 1965 Faye had her first New York stage success, in 'Hogan's Goat' at the American Place Theatre and, in the same year, she made her TV acting debut in an episode of 'The Trials of O'Brien'.
1967 saw Faye in her first screen role in 'The Happening', which starred Anthony Qui
nn, and her breakthrough screen role, as Bonnie Parker, in 'Bonnie and Clyde' came in the same year, for which she earned her first Oscar nomination for Best Actress.
After she divorced her husband, Terry O' Neill, she moved to London. Her London stage debut came in 1986. In 1996 her position as 'Hollywood star' was cemented, receiving star number 2074 on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles.
Dunaway starred in the 1986 made-for-television movie "Beverly Hills Madam". 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.
She acted 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
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.
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