Faye Dunaway

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Recent Role:
Odette Simone on Nora Roberts' Midnight Bayou
Gender:
Female
Born:
1-14-1941
Birthplace:
Bascom, Florida
Birth Name:
Dorothy Faye Dunaway
After stage work with Elia Kazan in "After The Fall" (a bit part) and "The Changeling" (a rather bigger role), Faye Dunaway had a big personal success in a play called "Hogan's Goat" and Hollywood wanted her. She was officially introduced in "The Happening", starring Anthony Quinn, and had a supporting role in "Hurry Sundown", with Michael Caine and Jane Fonda - and then she landed the role of Bonnie Parker in "Bonnie And Clyde", and she became, overnight, a huge star. It is said that she agreed to take a smaller salary in order to get above-the-title billing alongside Warren Beatty.More Following up this great success proved difficult, however, and her career has overall been spotty, with too many mediocre films being interspersed with a few major landmarks - "Chinatown", "The Three Musketeers" and its sequel "The Four Musketeers" and "Network" (which finally won her an Oscar) being the most notable. She also did a highly-regarded TV production of "After The Fall" - this time in the female lead. She was never known for being easy to work with - Bette Davis (herself no big winner of popularity contests with her colleagues) called her the most difficult person she had ever worked with. In the 1990s, she did more and more television, but never with any great success.

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    Whether you know her campy moments, or her moments of maddness, there is one thing you will NEVER have the chance to deny, Faye Dunaway is by far, on of the most acclaimed and well respected actresses of all time. It is because she is great! hide show

    Perhaps the 1980 camp drama "Mommie Dearest" was a bad decision for the highly acclaimed Academy Award Winner Faye Dunaway. Even so, is that any reason to continuing the rain of punishment America seems to give her even now? I think not. When I think of Faye Dunaway, I think of brilliance, of fashionable timing, of professional stature, and of endless innovation. I have always enjoyed Ms. Dunaways effortless ways she creates a character out of thin air. Her deliverance of lines illuminates her wide range of approach to characters of all kinds. I can't think of how actresses will be in the next 10 to 20 years, but I know for a fact they will be more than 100% short of what Faye is, and has been. Somethiing I just have to justify as well, is that Faye never hams things up on a whim of any type. She digs deep, deep into the physic and emotion of the character she portrays, often resulting in some instances where she has been over-the-top at times. That is actually a good thing more so. She shows that she knows what she's doing, and that she will always be one of the most highly intellectual artists for all to see. I wish she would be more like she used to be, in more commercial projects. At lleast, she should join a prime time drama, that would be awsome!

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