Faye Dunaway Overview:

Actress, Faye Dunaway, was born Dorothy Faye Dunaway on Jan 14, 1941 in Bascom, FL. As of December 2025, Faye Dunaway was 85 years old.

HONORS and AWARDS:

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Faye Dunaway was nominated for three Academy Awards, winning one for Best Actress for Network (as Diana Christensen) in 1976.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1967Best ActressBonnie and Clyde (1967)Bonnie ParkerNominated
1974Best ActressChinatown (1974)Evelyn Cross MulwrayNominated
1976Best ActressNetwork (1976)Diana ChristensenWon
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She was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures.

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Faye Dunaway Quotes:

Bonnie Parker: [Turned around in the car to face the back seat, to Eugene, loudly and mirthfully] Hey, what-a-ya do, anyhow?
Eugene Grizzard: I'm an undertaker.
Bonnie Parker: [Turning back to the front, to Clyde, quietly and with a deadly look] Get them out of here.


Bonnie Parker: [to Clyde] You're just like your brother. Ignorant, uneducated hillbilly, except the only special thing about you is your peculiar ideas about love-making, which is no love-making at all.


Julia: I see you like experiments. How would you like to experiment by staying with me for two days?


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Is only 14 years older than Diana Scarwid, who played her daughter in Mommie Dearest (1981).

The role of Evelyn Mulwray in Chinatown (1974) was originally offered to Jane Fonda. Fonda was wanted by the film's producer Robert Evans, who was also at the time chief of production at Paramount Pictures, and by director Roman Polanski and Paramount owner Charlie Bluhdorn. After lengthy negotiations, Fonda passed on the role. Evans then contacted Faye Dunaway's agent Sue Mengers and got her for the rock bottom price of $50,000, telling Mengers -- a close friend -- that he wanted Dunaway whereas everyone else wanted Fonda. Saying that he had time to intercede before Fonda signed her contract, Mengers got Dunaway to agree to the insulting offer. (Evans had explained to Mengers that after three flops in a row, Faye was a cold property.) After signing Dunaway, he told Mengers that Fonda had actually passed on the role. Mengers slammed down the phone on him. Polanski had not wanted Dunaway as his female lead due to her reputation for being temperamental, which she lived up to on the "Chinatown shoot. She received an Oscar nomination for the role.

Was offered the role of Lillian Hellman in Julia (1977) but she turned it down and Jane Fonda, who went on to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance, was cast instead.

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