Faye Dunaway

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Faye Dunaway (born Dorothy Faye Dunaway on January 14, 1941, in Bascom, Florida) is an Academy Award-winning actress. The daughter of Grace April Smith and John MacDowell Dunaway, an Army sergeant (making Dunaway an "army brat"), Dunaway studied at the theater department of Boston University and graduated from the University of Florida. She appeared on Broadway in the early 1960s as the daughter of Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons.

Her first screen role was in 1967 in Hurry Sundown, but that same year, she got the leading female role in Bonnie and Clyde (opposite Warren Beatty) which garnered her an Oscar nomination. It was in the 1970s that she began to stretch her acting muscles in such films as Three Days of the Condor, Puzzle of a Downfall Child, Little Big Man, Chinatown, and Network, for which she won her Oscar as the scheming, almost inhumanly cold-blooded TV executive Diana Christensen.

In the 1980s, although her performances did not waver, the parts grew less compelling. She played Joan Crawford in the overwrought Mommie Dearest, and the alcoholic in Barfly (opposite Mickey Rourke). In a later movie, Don Juan De Marco (1995), in which Dunaway co-starred with Johnny Depp and the late Marlon Brando, a reviewer noted that the actress "appears to have had a major facelift as she's barely recognizable". Writers Sally Ogle Davis and Igor Davis have quoted one unidentified Hollywood producer as stating that Dunaway's "deep-plane" plastic surgery had "erased her own face."

Romantically linked to a series of men ranging from the comedian Lenny Bruce to actor Marcello Mastroianni, Dunaway has been married twice. Her first husband, from 1974 until 1979, was Peter Wolf, the lead singer of the rock group the J. Geils Band. Her second, from 1984 until 1987, was Terry O'Neill, a celebrated British photographer; they had one child, Liam O'Neill (born 1980). In 2003, however, O'Neill revealed that his son with Dunaway was adopted, not biological, though the actress had long maintained the opposite.

Dunaway is also a convert to Roman Catholicism.

Dunaway has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard.

She served as a judge on the 2005 reality show The Starlet, which sought, American Idol-style, to find the next young actress with the potential to become a major star.