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Jan 11, 2017 · 10. Barfly (1987) 76%. After spending a few years in England and focusing on television work in the mid-1980s, Dunaway returned to Hollywood in search of film roles — and found a doozy in Barfly, a semi-autobiographical drama written by Charles Bukowski about a perpetually sozzled writer (Mickey Rourke) whose self-destructive habits put him ...
Dorothy Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941) is an 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 and Clyde, for which she received her first Academy Award nomination. Her most notable films include the ...
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Oct 6, 2023 · Paramount. Following her Oscar win for "Network," Faye Dunaway failed to produce a significant follow-up until 1981's "Mommie Dearest." The film, adapted from Christina Crawford's controversial autobiography of the same name, follows the abuse she endured at the hands of her adopted mother, renowned Hollywood actress Joan Crawford.
Jan 14, 2021 · Happy birthday, Faye Dunaway! The "Bonnie and Clyde" actress turns 80 on Jan. 14. The actress made her screen debut in 1967's "The Happening" and has won received an Oscar, Emmy and three Golden ...
--Faye Dunaway, quoted in ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, October 8, 1993 Biography An icy, elegant blonde with a knack for playing complex and strong-willed female leads, Academy Award winner Faye Dunaway was an enormously popular actress in films and television during the 1960s and into the 1970s, starring in several films which defined what many would come to call Hollywood's "second Golden Age."
Born prematurely in Bascom, FL, Dorothy Faye Dunaway was the daughter of MacDowell Dunaway, Jr., a career Army officer, and his wife, Grace April Smith. After a stint as a teenaged beauty queen in Florida, she intended to pursue education at the University of Florida, but switched to acting, earning her degree from Boston University in 1962.
