Faye Dunaway Overview:

Actress, Faye Dunaway, was born Dorothy Faye Dunaway on Jan 14, 1941 in Bascom, FL. As of December 2023, Faye Dunaway was 83 years old.

HONORS and AWARDS:

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Faye Dunaway was nominated for three Academy Awards, winning one for Best Actress for Network (as Diana Christensen) in 1976.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1967Best ActressBonnie and Clyde (1967)Bonnie ParkerNominated
1974Best ActressChinatown (1974)Evelyn Cross MulwrayNominated
1976Best ActressNetwork (1976)Diana ChristensenWon
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She was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures.

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Faye Dunaway Quotes:

[moments after Clyde has committed armed robbery and they are about to make their getaway in a stolen car]
Bonnie Parker: Hey! What's your name, anyway?
Clyde Barrow: [starts car] Clyde Barrow.
Bonnie Parker: [loudly over the engine noise] Hi. I'm Bonnie Parker. Pleased to meet you!


Bonnie Parker: [to Clyde] You're just like your brother. Ignorant, uneducated hillbilly, except the only special thing about you is your peculiar ideas about love-making, which is no love-making at all.


C.W. Moss: I spent a year... I spent *A YEAR* in reformatory!
Bonnie Parker: Whooee! A man with a record!


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Prior to living in a very modest New York City apartment on E. 78th St. between First and Second Aves., Dunaway had resided at the huge, sumptuous Eldorado on Central Park West.

She studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.

She auditioned for the role of Daisy that went to Mia Farrow in The Great Gatsby (1974). Her 1995 autobiography was titled "Looking for Gatsby: My Life."

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