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Faye Dunaway
Age: 69
Height: 5' 7"
Birth Place: Bascom, Florida, USA
Born: Jan. 14th, 1941
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Faye Dunaway's Main TV Roles
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BIOGRAPHY: She was one of the hottest actresses in the 1970s playing neurotic, highly driven women with sex appeal. Life in the 1990s has not been as good. In a much-publicized incident, she was dropped as the lead in the Broadway musical "Sunset Boulevard," (based on the Gloria Swanson classic film Sunset Blvd. (1950)) and her attempt at starring in a television comedy was an unmitigated bomb.
TRIVIA:
- One of only three actresses, along with 'Halle Berry' (qv) and 'Liza Minnelli' (qv), to win both the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Razzie Award for Worst Actress (Dunaway shared her award with 'Bo Derek' (qv)).
- (October 1997) Ranked #65 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.
- The role of Evelyn Mulwray in _Chinatown (1974)_ (qv) was originally marked for 'Ali MacGraw' (qv), wife of the film's producer, 'Robert Evans (I)' (qv). By the time production started, MacGraw had left Evans for actor 'Steve McQueen (I)' (qv) and other actresses were considered for the part. Dunaway's main competition for the role was 'Jane Fonda' (qv).
- Got the lead role in _Bonnie and Clyde (1967)_ (qv) after 'Natalie Wood (I)' (qv) turned it down.
- Is the only actor/actress to have appeared in both the 1968 version (_The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)_ (qv) and 1999 version (_The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)_ (qv) of "The Thomas Crown Affair".
- Her performance as 'Bonnie Parker (II)' (qv) in _Bonnie and Clyde (1967)_ (qv) is ranked #34 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
- Competing for beauty titles was considered de rigueur for Southern girls in the 1950s, and Dunaway remembers in her autobiography that she was somehow convinced that she could NOT leave Florida until she won one. She missed being crowned May Queen at Leon High School in Tallahassee by a mere six votes, and had another near-miss at a title when she was voted runner up for Miss University of Florida in 1959. Dunaway finally scored her beauty crown when she was named Sweetheart of Sigma Chi, and promptly transferred to Boston University.
- According to the commentary by John Waters on the _Mommie Dearest (1981)_ (qv) DVD, Dunaway feels the film's reception ruined her career, to an extent, and she refuses to discuss the film (hence her lack of participation in its release).
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