Faye Dunaway (born Dorothy Faye Dunaway on
January 14,
1941 in Bascom,
Florida) is an
Academy Award winning actress. Dunaway studied at the theater department of
Boston University. Her first screen role was in
1967 in
The Happening[?], but in the same year, she got a role in
Bonnie and Clyde which garnered her an Oscar nomination. It was in the
1970s that she began to stretch her acting muscles in such films as
Little Big Man[?],
Chinatown, and
Network, for which she won her Oscar.
In the 1980s, although her performances did not waver, the parts grew less complelling. She played Joan Crawford in the overwrought Mommie Dearest[?] and the alcoholic in Barfly.
Dunaway has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Blvd.