Faye Dunaway

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Dunaway 2011 in Cannes
with Mirosław Baka in Balladyna

Dorothy Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941 in Bascom , Florida ) is an American actress , director , film producer and screenwriter . In 1977 she was awarded an Oscar .

Live and act

Faye Dunaway is the daughter of a sergeant in the United States Army . Mannheim was one of the family's numerous places of residence . Dunaway initially took advantage of a teaching fellowship at the University of Florida , but graduated in 1962 from the College of Fine Arts at Boston University . She waived a Fulbright scholarship at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and instead went to the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater in New York, where teaching and role assignment went hand in hand. In 1962 she got her first major role as Margaret in A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt . Even as a film star, she remained loyal to the theater for a long time.

After her breakthrough in the film Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Dunaway was one of the most famous and sought-after actresses in Hollywood for years . She worked with almost all of the leading male stars of the time, including a. with Warren Beatty , Steve McQueen , Dustin Hoffman , William Holden , Paul Newman , Robert Redford , Jack Nicholson , Kirk Douglas , Charlton Heston , Stacy Keach . She won an Oscar for her role as an unscrupulous television producer in the Mediensatire Network (1976), after she had already been nominated for Chinatown and Bonnie and Clyde . Eleven nominations and three Golden Globes stand against seven nominations for the Golden Raspberry as “Worst Actress”, and once she was nominated as “Worst Actress of the Decade” (for the 1980s). It has actually been awarded the raspberry twice; along with Halle Berry , Liza Minnelli and Sandra Bullock, she is one of the four Oscar winners who have received this dubious honor. From the late 1970s onwards, Dunaway did not have any major film successes, and from the 1980s onwards she was regularly seen in TV productions.

Faye Dunaway was married twice: from 1974 to 1979 to Peter Wolf , the singer of the J. Geils Band ; In 1983 she married the photographer Terry O'Neill , with whom they had a son since 1980. The second marriage lasted until 1987.

Faye Dunaway was awarded the French Order of Fine Arts and Literature at the 2011 Cannes International Film Festival .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Faye Dunaway  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at filmreference.com
  2. ↑ Faye Dunaway receives French medals on Welt.de
personal data
SURNAME Dunaway, Faye
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dunaway, Dorothy Faye (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress, director, film producer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Bascom , Florida , United States