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Faye Dunaway is an American actress, producer, and director. She is best known for her Academy Award-winning performance in the 1976 film Network, as well as her roles in the films Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Chinatown (1974), and Mommie Dearest (1981). Dunaway was born on January 14, 1941, in Bascom, Florida. She attended the University of Florida, where she studied theater and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1962. Dunaway began her acting career in the mid-1960s, appearing in several Broadway productions. She made her film debut in 1967 with the crime drama Bonnie and Clyde, for which she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She went on to star in a number of critically acclaimed films, including The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Little Big Man (1970), Chinatown (1974), and Network (1976), for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress. In addition to her acting career, Dunaway has also directed several films, including The Wicked Lady (1983) and Don Juan DeMarco (1995). She has also produced several films, including The Portrait of a Lady (1996) and The Rules of Attraction (2002). Dunaway has been married twice and has one son. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

Popular As Dorothy Faye Dunaway
Occupation actress,producer,director
Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 14 January 1941
Birthday 14 January
Birthplace Bascom, Florida, USA
Nationality United States

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Faye Dunaway Height, Weight & Measurements

At 82 years old, Faye Dunaway height is 5' 7" (1.7 m) .

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Height 5' 7" (1.7 m)
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Who Is Faye Dunaway's Husband?

Her husband is Terry O'Neill (1982 - 26 March 1987) ( divorced) ( 1 child), Peter Wolf (7 August 1974 - 1978) ( divorced)

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Husband Terry O'Neill (1982 - 26 March 1987) ( divorced) ( 1 child), Peter Wolf (7 August 1974 - 1978) ( divorced)
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Faye Dunaway Net Worth

Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Faye Dunaway worth at the age of 82 years old? Faye Dunaway’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actress. She is from United States. We have estimated Faye Dunaway's net worth , money, salary, income, and assets.

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)$60,000
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)$200,000
The Extraordinary Seaman (1969)$300,000
The Arrangement (1969)$600,000
Chinatown (1974)$50,000
Network (1976)$200,000
Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)$1,000,000
The Champ (1979)$750,000
Evita Peron (1981)$2,000,000

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Timeline

2017

A series of occasional roles in little-seen films followed, but Dunaway was unexpectedly thrust back into the public eye at the 2017 Academy Awards.

Over the past year, she has appeared in three films, starring in The Bye Bye Man (2017), The Case for Christ (2017) and Inconceivable (2017), with more projects expected to be on the way.

2016

Before proceeding onstage, Beatty was mistakenly handed a backup envelope for Best Actress in a Leading Role, which had already been won by Emma Stone for La La Land (2016). Unsure what to do when he opened the envelope and discovered the error, Beatty stalled for time and showed the card to Dunaway; misunderstanding his intent, the actress announced that the Best Picture Oscar went to "La La Land.

" During producer Jordan Horowitz's acceptance speech, he was informed that the actual Best Picture winner was Moonlight (2016). During the onstage chaos that ensued, Beatty delivered a heartfelt explanation and apology for the snafu while undergoing good-natured ribbing from host Jimmy Kimmel. After her break from acting and the memorable Oscars moment, Dunaway is now back in the saddle as an actress working more frequently in her 70s.

2015

Was originally cast in Asphalte (2015) as Jeanne Meyer, but had to pull out due to health issues and was replaced by Isabelle Huppert.

2011

In August 2011, her New York City landlord was seeking to evict Dunaway from a rent-stabilized one-bedroom apartment, alleging she was not entitled to it since her primary residence is a house in West Hollywood.

2004

Liam O'Neill, her son by second husband Terry, followed in her footsteps with minor acting roles beginning in 2004.

2003

His father later dropped a bombshell in 2003 by revealing that Liam was not their biological son, but was adopted - a claim that Dunaway had previously denied.

2002

Younger audiences had their first taste of Dunaway's particular star power as Ian Somerhalder's mother in The Rules of Attraction (2002), Roger Avary's amped-up adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel, before Dunaway turned up the heat as a merciless celebrity judge on the reality series The Starlet (2005).

2000

Dunaway's schedule remained busy from 2000 onward, mostly in television and small independent features.

She co-starred with Mark Wahlberg and Joaquin Phoenix as the wife of career criminal James Caan in The Yards (2000), then made her directorial debut with the short The Yellow Bird (2001), based on the play by Tennessee Williams.

1998

In 1998, she won her third Golden Globe as modeling agency head Wilhelmina Cooper in the biopic Gia (1998), starring Angelina Jolie as doomed model Gia Carangi.

1997

Ranked #65 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]

1996

She later received Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe nominations as the matron of a wealthy Jewish family in turmoil in The Twilight of the Golds (1996). Perhaps her best turn of the decade was as a seductive murderess who attempts to sway the unflappable Lt.

The project was expected to become her next great film role, but remained uncompleted more than a decade after the 1996 tour.

1995

Dunaway penned her memoirs, Looking For Gatsby, in 1995, one year before receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Attached throughout her professional career to intriguing men ranging from Lenny Bruce to Marcello Mastroianni, she was twice married; her first husband was singer Peter Wolf of the popular seventies rock group, The J. Geils Band.

1994

" Other notable performances came as the unhappy wife of psychiatrist Marlon Brando in Don Juan DeMarco (1994), as the daughter of imprisoned Klansman Gene Hackman in The Chamber (1996) and as a bartender caught in the middle of a hostage standoff in Kevin Spacey's Albino Alligator (1996).

1993

Columbo (Peter Falk) in Columbo: It's All in the Game (1993), which earned her a 1994 Emmy.

Her attempt at sitcom stardom in It Had to Be You (1993), co-starring Robert Urich, was met with universal disinterest, and the project was announced as being retooled without Dunaway prior to its cancellation.

1990

She was Robert Duvall's frosty wife in the dystopian thriller The Handmaid's Tale (1990) and contributed a vocal cameo as Evelyn Mulwray in The Two Jakes (1990), the ill-fated sequel to "Chinatown.

The 1990s were also not without incident for Dunaway. She was embroiled in an ugly lawsuit against Andrew Lloyd Webber after he closed a Los Angeles production of his musical version of "Sunset Blvd. " with claims that she was unable to sing to his standards. The suit was later settled out of court for an undisclosed sum. A national tour of Terrence McNally's "Master Class," about the legendary opera diva Maria Callas, ended with her involvement in a suit over legal rights to the play.

1987

Dunaway returned to the United States in 1987 following her divorce from O'Neill, and attempted to rebuild her career and reputation by appearing in several independent dramas.

She was widely praised for her performance as a once-glamorous woman felled by alcohol in Barbet Schroeder's Barfly (1987), and served as executive producer and star of Cold Sassy Tree (1989), a TV adaptation of the popular novel by Olive Ann Burns about an independent-minded woman who romances a recently widowed store owner (Richard Widmark). Dunaway was exceptionally busy for the remainder of the decade in both major Hollywood features and independent fare, though her strong women now occasionally sported an unfortunate shrill side.

1986

Was one of the presenters of the Best Director Golden Globe in 1986 which was awarded to John Huston for Prizzi's Honor (1985). They had previously co-starred together in the mystery film Chinatown (1974).

1984

Fans of her early dramatic work were similarly aghast by her turn as a shrieking witch battling Helen Slater's Girl of Steel in Supergirl (1984).

Only a Golden Globe-winning appearance in the cumbersome miniseries Ellis Island (1984) offered any respite from the negative press which now continued to follow her.

1983

The Wicked Lady (1983) was an absurd, near-softcore period drama by Michael Winner, with Dunaway as an 18th-century highway robber.

1981

An icy, elegant blonde with a knack for playing complex and strong-willed female leads, enormously popular actress Faye Dunaway starred in several films which defined what many would come to call Hollywood's "second Golden Age. " During her tenure at the top of the box office, she was a more than capable match for some of the biggest macho stars of the period. An overwrought turn in the disastrous biopic Mommie Dearest (1981) effectively derailed her career - but, at the same time, made her a bit of a camp favorite in the gay community - though she's been given infrequent opportunities worthy of her talent since that unfortunate halt. Born prematurely on Jan.

And then came Mommie Dearest (1981), director Frank Perry's biopic of actress Joan Crawford based on the tell-all book by her daughter Christina. Crawford herself had praised Dunaway in the early stages of her career, and while some critics gave positive reviews to her performance - in particular, the extent to which she physically transformed herself into Crawford - most fixated on the hysterical dialogue and garish scenes of child abuse. Clips of Dunaway as Crawford bellowing "No more wire hangers!" became immediate laugh-getters on late-night television, and a substantial gay following rose up in response to the film's high camp value. Dunaway, however, found none of the response amusing, and later admitted her regret in taking the role. Whether laughable or pure genius, no one could deny that Dunaway threw her everything into the role. The film's continued cult success proved she had succeeded in becoming Crawford.

The fallout from "Mommie Dearest" obscured Dunaway's follow-up projects, which included the title role in the 1981 TV-movie Evita Peron (1981) and a return to Broadway in 1982's "The Curse of an Aching Heart. " Discouraged, she moved to London with her second husband, photographer Terry O'Neill, who had also served as a producer on "Mommie Dearest. " For the next few years, Dunaway appeared sporadically in films, most of which underscored her newly minted status as a camp icon.

1980

Her son with Terry O'Neill, Liam O'Neill, was born in 1980.

1978

She was effective as a fashion photographer who experiences disturbing visions in Eyes of Laura Mars (1978), but was wasted in thankless roles as the dissatisfied ex of washed-up boxer Jon Voight in The Champ (1979) and wife to Frank Sinatra's detective in The First Deadly Sin (1980).

1977

Was offered the title role in Julia (1977) which she turned down. Vanessa Redgrave, who went on to win a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance, was cast instead.

1976

Even more startling was her sterling role in Network (1976), Paddy Chayefsky's blistering take on the television industry. Dunaway pulled out all the stops as an executive on the rise who stops at nothing to advance her career - even bedding veteran producer William Holden. Critics again rose in unison to praise Dunaway, and she finally netted an Oscar for the role, as well as a Golden Globe. Surprisingly, Dunaway's career began to fall away after her Oscar win.

1974

Dunaway had fought hard for her performance - her battles with director Roman Polanski were no secret - but sadly, she lost the Oscar to Ellen Burstyn for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974). However, it would be Dunaway's performance which stood the test of time.

High-gloss turns in The Towering Inferno (1974) and Sydney Pollack's political thriller Three Days of the Condor (1975) preceded one of her best television performances; that of Depression-era radio preacher Aimee Semple MacPherson in The Disappearance of Aimee (1976).

1973

But her turn as the duplicitous Lady De Winter in Richard Lester's splashy, slapstick take on The Three Musketeers (1973) and its 1974 sequel The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge (1974) preceded a long period of critical and box office hits, starting with her masterful performance in 1974's Chinatown (1974). Dunaway's turn as Evelyn Mulwray, the mysterious woman who draws detective Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) into a dark and complicated web of murder, incest and catastrophic business deals, seemed the epitome of every femme fatale to ever stride across a chiaroscuro-lit scene in classic noir. But Dunaway also found the horribly wounded core of her character as well, and turned Evelyn from a pastiche to a full-blown and emotionally resonant human being. Critics and award groups rushed to nominate Dunaway for the role, and she netted her second Academy Award nod, as well as Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations.

1972

Dunaway also balanced these projects with several well-regarded theatrical productions, including a 1972-73 stint as Blanche Du Bois in "A Streetcar Named Desire," and notable TV-movies like The Woman I Love (1972), which cast her as the Duchess of Windsor, and TV broadcasts of Great Performances: Hogan's Goat (1971) and After the Fall (1974).

1970

She then bounced between arthouse efforts like Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970), directed by her ex-boyfriend, photographer Jerry Schatzberg, and the revisionist Western 'Doc' (1971), as well as big-budget efforts like Little Big Man (1970), which cast her as a predatory preacher's wife with designs on Dustin Hoffman's reluctant Native American hero.

1969

Turned down Paint Your Wagon (1969), The Wind and the Lion (1975), Fun with Dick and Jane (1977), Frances (1982) and King Lear (1983).

1968

Dunaway followed this success with another hit, The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), in which her coolly sensual insurance investigator generated considerable sparks with playboy and jewel thief Steve McQueen.

1967

" The latter - an off-Broadway production in 1967 - required Dunaway to tumble down a flight of steps in every performance, earning her a screen debut in the wan counterculture comedy The Happening (1967).

Just five months after its release, however, she was wowing audiences across the country as Depression-era bank robber Bonnie Parker in Arthur Penn's controversial Bonnie and Clyde (1967). Her turn as the naïve but trigger-happy and sexually aggressive Parker earned her Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations, and provided a direct route to the front of the line for Hollywood leading ladies in an unbelievably short amount of time.

1965

Has a connection with the James Bond - 007 franchise: was considered for the role of Domino Derval in Thunderball (1965) and as the female lead in Octopussy (1983) (Maud Adams ended up with the role). Faye had a chance to work with Pierce Brosnan (the fifth 007) in the remake of The Thomas Crown Affair (1999).

1963

By her own admission in a New York Times interview many years back, she and late comedian Lenny Bruce were briefly lovers and lived together for a week, circa 1963. She was also engaged to director Jerry Schatzberg in the mid-1960s.

1962

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. She was given the enviable task of choosing between a Fulbright Scholarship to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts or a role in the Broadway production of "A Man For All Seasons" as a member of the American National Theatre and Academy. She picked the latter, enjoying a fruitful stage career for the next two years, which was capped by appearances in "After the Fall" and "Hogan's Goat.

1952

In order to be taken seriously as an actress, she turned down a regular role on Guiding Light (1952) in 1965.

1950

Reunited with Warren Beatty on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of "Bonnie and Clyde," the pair were tapped to present the Best Picture award to close the night.

1941

14, 1941 in Bascom, FL, Dorothy Faye Dunaway was the daughter of MacDowell Dunaway, Jr. , a career Army officer, and his wife, Grace April Smith.

1920

Born to John MacDowell Dunaway, Jr. (1920-1984), a cook in the United States Army, and Grace April Hartshorn (née Smith; 1922-2004), no profession. They married in 1939 and divorced in 1954. Faye has one brother, Mac S. Dunaway (born 1942), a Washington, D.C. based lawyer.