Faye Dunaway - Actor Profile

Faye Dunaway

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Biography

Dorothy Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941) is a European-American actress. She is the recipient of such accolades as an Academy Award, three Golden Globes, and a British Academy Film Award. Her career began in the early 1960s on Broadway. She made her screen debut in the 1967 film The Happening, and rose to fame that same year with her portrayal of outlaw Bonnie Parker in Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, for which she received her first Academy Award nomination. Her most notable films include the crime caper The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), the drama The Arrangement (1969), the revisionist western Little Big Man (1970), an adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas classic The Three Musketeers (1973), the neo-noir mystery Chinatown (1974), for which she earned her second Oscar nomination, the action-drama disaster The Towering Inferno (1974), the political thriller Three Days of the Condor (1975), the satire Network (1976), for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress, and the thriller Eyes of Laura Mars (1978). Her career evolved to more mature and character roles in subsequent years, often in independent films, beginning with her controversial portrayal of Joan Crawford in the 1981 film Mommie Dearest. Other notable films in which she has appeared include Barfly (1987), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), Arizona Dream (1994), Don Juan DeMarco (1995), The Twilight of the Golds (1997), Gia (1998) and The Rules of Attraction (2002). Dunaway also performed on stage in several plays including A Man for All Seasons (1961–63), After the Fall (1964), Hogan's Goat (1965–67), A Streetcar Named Desire (1973) and was awarded the Sarah Siddons Award for her portrayal of opera singer Maria Callas in Master Class (1996). Description above from the Wikipedia article Faye Dunaway, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Complete Filmography & Verdicts

YearMovieCharacterRatingVerdict
2024 Faye Self ★ 6.3 FLOP
2017 The Case for Christ Dr. Roberta Waters ★ 6.9 HIT
2014 Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films Selena (archive footage) (uncredited) ★ 7.2 HIT
2010 A Family Thanksgiving Gina ★ 6.3 FLOP
2008 Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired Self (archive footage) ★ 6.3 FLOP
2006 Love Hollywood Style God ★ 10.0 HIT
2005 Ghosts Never Sleep Kathleen Dolan ★ 9.0 HIT
2004 El padrino: The Latin Godfather Atty. Gen. Navarro ★ 6.9 HIT
2002 The Rules of Attraction Mrs. Denton ★ 6.2 FLOP
2002 AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories Self ★ 6.5 HIT
2002 Changing Hearts Betty Miller ★ 6.3 FLOP
2000 The Yards Kitty Olchin ★ 6.2 FLOP
1999 The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc Yolande of Aragon ★ 6.4 FLOP
1999 The Thomas Crown Affair Psychiatrist ★ 6.7 HIT
1999 Love Lies Bleeding Josephine ★ 6.7 HIT
1998 Gia Wilhelmina Cooper ★ 7.1 HIT
1996 The Chamber Lee Cayhall Bowen ★ 6.0 FLOP
1996 The People Next Door Ellen Morse ★ 7.3 HIT
1995 Inside the Dream Factory Self / Host ★ 6.0 FLOP
1994 Don Juan DeMarco Marilyn Mickler ★ 6.7 HIT
1993 Arizona Dream Elaine Stalker ★ 7.2 HIT
1990 Silhouette Samantha Kimball ★ 7.0 HIT
1990 The Two Jakes Evelyn Mulwray (voice) ★ 6.0 FLOP
1990 The Handmaid's Tale Serena Joy ★ 6.1 FLOP
1989 Wait Until Spring, Bandini Mrs. Hildegarde ★ 6.1 FLOP
1989 Cold Sassy Tree Love Simpson Blakeslee ★ 6.5 HIT
1989 On a Moonlit Night Mrs. Colbert ★ 6.2 FLOP
1987 Barfly Wanda Wilcox ★ 6.9 HIT
1985 Supergirl: The Making of the Movie Self / Selena ★ 6.3 FLOP
1981 Mommie Dearest Joan Crawford ★ 6.3 FLOP
1979 The Champ Annie ★ 7.0 HIT
1976 Voyage of the Damned Denise Kreisler ★ 6.0 FLOP
1976 Network Diana Christensen ★ 7.8 HIT
1976 The Disappearance of Aimee Sister Aimee Semple McPherson ★ 8.0 HIT
1975 Three Days of the Condor Kathy Hale ★ 7.3 HIT
1974 The Towering Inferno Susan ★ 7.0 HIT
1974 The Four Musketeers Milady de Winter ★ 6.4 FLOP
1974 Chinatown Evelyn Cross Mulwray ★ 7.9 HIT
1973 The Three Musketeers Lady de Winter ★ 6.7 HIT
1973 Oklahoma Crude Lena Doyle ★ 6.1 FLOP
1971 Hogan's Goat Kathleen Stanton ★ 6.0 FLOP
1971 Doc Katie Elder ★ 5.9 FLOP
1970 Little Big Man Mrs. Louise Pendrake ★ 7.5 HIT
1970 Puzzle of a Downfall Child Lou Andreas Sand ★ 6.4 FLOP
1969 The Arrangement Gwen ★ 6.5 HIT
1968 The Thomas Crown Affair Vicki Anderson ★ 6.8 HIT
1968 The Movie Orgy Bonnie Parker (archive footage) ★ 6.3 FLOP
1967 Bonnie and Clyde Bonnie Parker ★ 7.5 HIT
1967 The Happening Sandy ★ 6.2 FLOP
1967 Hurry Sundown Lou McDowell ★ 6.4 FLOP