Faye Dunaway is an American actress who is widely acclaimed for her performances in films like Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Chinatown (1974), The Towering Inferno (1974), Network (1976), etc.
Born Name
Dorothy Faye Dunaway
Nick Name
Faye
Sun Sign
Capricorn
Born Place
Bascom, Florida, United States
Nationality
Occupation
Actress
Family
- Father – John MacDowell Dunaway Jr.
- Mother – Grace April Smith
- Siblings – Mac S. Dunaway (Younger Brother) (Lawyer)
Build
Slim
Height
5 ft 7 in or 170 cm
Weight
63 kg or 139 lbs
Boyfriend / Spouse
Faye Dunaway has dated –
- Lenny Bruce (1962-1963)
- Jerry Schatzberg (1966-1968)
- Marcello Mastroianni (1968-1971)
- Harris Yulin
- Peter Wolf (1972-1979) – Faye was married to musician Peter Wolf from 1974 to 1979.
- Robert Altman
- Terry O’Neill (1977-1987) – British photographer Terry O’Neill and Dunaway got married in 1983. They adopted a boy named Liam Dunaway O’Neill (b. 1980). However, they filed for divorce in 1987.
- Frederick Forsyth
- Warren Lieberfarb (1988-1991)
- Bernard Montiel
Race / Ethnicity
White
She has English, French Huguenot, Scottish, and Irish ancestry.
Hair Color
Blonde
Eye Color
Green
Sexual Orientation
Straight
Distinctive Features
High cheekbones
Faye Dunaway Favorite Things
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- Film Of Herself – Barfly (1987)
- Character Of Herself – in the play Master Class
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Faye Dunaway Facts
- She acknowledged that playing actress Joan Crawford in the universally-panned film Mommie Dearest (1981) changed public perception of her and damaged her film career.
- Faye is the only actress who has starred in both versions of the heist film, The Thomas Crown Affair. She played Vicki Anderson in 1968 original and essayed a psychiatrist in the 1999 remake.
- The Chinatown actress and her director Roman Polanski frequently clashed on the sets of their 1974 film. While Dunaway described him as a bully, he infamously declared her ‘a gigantic pain in the a**’.
Featured Image by Georges Biard / / CC BY-SA 3.0
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Facts of Faye Dunaway
- full nameFaye Dunaway
- Date of Birth January 14, 1941
- Age 83 years 9 months
- Horoscope Capricorn
- Lucky Number 3
- Lucky Stone Topaz
- Lucky Color Brown
- Best Match for Marriage Scorpio, Virgo, Taurus
- weight63 kg
- height5 ft 7 in