Faye Dunaway

Dorothy Faye Dunaway is an American actress whose career began on Broadway in the early 1960s before transitioning to film. She has earned widespread acclaim and accolades throughout her career, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and a BAFTA Award. She gained international fame for her breakthrough role as outlaw Bonnie Parker in Arthur Penn's 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde.

Dunaway was born in Bascom, Florida, to Grace April, a housewife, and John MacDowell Dunaway Jr., an officer in the United States Army. She spent her childhood traveling across the United States and Europe, taking lessons in dance, piano, and singing. After graduating from Leon High School, she studied at Florida State University and the University of Florida before receiving a degree in theatre from Boston University. She later studied acting at the American National Theater and Academy and HB Studio in New York City.

She began her professional acting career on Broadway, appearing as a replacement in A Man for All Seasons from 1961 to 1963 and performing in plays such as After the Fall and Hogan's Goat. Dunaway made her feature film debut in 1967 in The Happening, followed by a role in Hurry Sundown, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year.

Her rise to international stardom arrived with Bonnie and Clyde in 1967, which earned her a David di Donatello award, a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer, and her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. She maintained her commercial success by starring alongside Steve McQueen in the crime caper The Thomas Crown Affair in 1968.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Dunaway took on diverse international and American film roles. She appeared in A Place for Lovers, The Arrangement, The Extraordinary Seaman, and Arthur Penn's Western Little Big Man. She earned a Golden Globe nomination for Puzzle of a Downfall Child, and subsequently appeared in Doc, The Deadly Trap, the television movie The Woman I Love, and Oklahoma Crude.

Dunaway continued to secure major screen roles throughout the 1970s and beyond. She received a second Oscar nomination for Chinatown, starred in major releases such as The Three Musketeers, The Towering Inferno, and Three Days of the Condor, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Network. Her later screen credits include Mommie Dearest, Barfly, The Handmaid's Tale, Don Juan DeMarco, Gia, and The Rules of Attraction.

Alongside her film career, Dunaway returned to the stage in productions like A Streetcar Named Desire and Master Class, winning a Sarah Siddons Award for the latter. Known for guarding her private life, she married twice, first to singer Peter Wolf and later to photographer Terry O'Neill, with whom she has a son, Liam.