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Faye Dunaway
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Faye Dunaway is not one to age gracefully, or to be reminded that she's not the glamour puss that became a star with Bonnie and Clyde some 30 years ago. The actress, now delicately greyed, is initially put off when reminded it's been thirty or so years since first gaining the spotlight. "What an indelicate remark", she exclaims while pouring the umpteenth cup of coffee for the day. "Years are not important, my dear", she adds, poutingly but with a slight smile. Yet the fact remains, that in her prime, Dunaway had some of Hollywood's choicest roles, which begs the question: Are those roles harder to come by the older she gets? "It's always difficult.
Faye Dunaway is an American born actress who was born in Bascom Florida. Some of her films include The Thomas Crown Affair, Don Juan DeMarco, and Eyes of Laura Mars. Faye ... recieved an Oscar nomination for her role in Bonnie and Clyde.
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During the course of her forty year career, Faye Dunaway has earned three Golden Globes, an Emmy, an Oscar© and one British Academy Award. She reached international stardom with edgy and sexy performances in Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown, Network, Barfly, and several more movies that are too numerous to mention here. She has been called an icon, an exotic beauty, and a cult goddess. But according to Faye Dunaway, a more accurate description of herself would be ‘recluse’. The accomplished actor confided with Melanie Griffith during a phone interview for Interview magazine: “I’m a Capricorn. I’m really boring.”
Faye Dunaway Faye Dunaway weighed only four pounds at birth. Her father was a soldier, so the family moved often, and Dunaway spent much of her childhood in Germany. She studied drama in college, and mere days after graduating she landed her Broadway debut in the original run of A Man for All Seasons with Paul Scofield. After several small roles on television, she made her film debut in the hippie saga The Happening, and co-starred in the overwrought Hurry, Sundown with Michael Caine and Jane Fonda. She then shot to stardom in her Oscar-nominated role as a Depression-era bank-robber in Bonnie and Clyde, opposite Warren Beatty.
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Faye Dunaway made a splash in Hollywood in 1967, earning her first Oscar nomination for her starring role in Bonnie and Clyde (with Warren Beatty). She went on to popular and critical success, appearing with Steve McQueen in The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) and with Jack Nicholson in Chinatown (1974), and winning an Oscar for Best Actress as William Holden's ruthless mistress in Network (1976). The 1980s saw her star power diminish, although she was memorable in Barfly (1987) and as Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest (1981). Although no longer a leading lady, she has continued to appear in films, including a small role in the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair.
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One of the hottest actresses of the 70s, Faye Dunaway was born in Florida in 1941 and studied acting at Boston University. She shot to fame and an Oscar nomination, playing Bonnie Parker alongside Warren Beatty in the crime film Bonnie And Clyde. Thereafter, she appeared in The Thomas Crown Affair, Little Big Man and Chinatown, in which her on-set clashes with director Roman Polanski became the stuff of Hollywood legend. Dunaway won an Oscar in 1976, for her portrayal of a ruthless network-TV executive in the outrageous satire Network. Since then, she has continued to work steadily and even appeared in the 1984 "bomb" Supergirl.
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