Faye Dunaway

American actress

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Born 1941 · age 85United States

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Rank in United States
#207
Actors
Age
85
Born 1941
Known for
Chinatown
1974

Summary

Updated 2026-06-11

She gave Bonnie Parker her swagger and won an Oscar tearing through Network's righteous fury about television rot — then became as famous for vanishing from view as for the roles themselves.

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Dorothy Faye Dunaway started on Broadway in the early 1960s and broke through in 1967 as Bonnie Parker in Bonnie and Clyde, earning her first Oscar nomination. A streak followed: The Thomas Crown Affair in 1968, Chinatown in 1974 (second nomination), The Towering Inferno, Three Days of the Condor, and then Network in 1976, which brought her the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1981 she took on Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest, a portrayal that sparked controversy and marked a turn toward character work in independent films — Barfly, The Handmaid's Tale, Arizona Dream. She also returned to the…

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