Faye Dunaway

Dorothy Faye Dunaway (Bascom, Florida, January 14, 1941) is an American actress, considered one of the greatest of her generation. She has won an Oscar, an Emmy, three Globes Gold and a BAFTA.

She began her career in the early 1960s on Broadway and made her feature film debut in the 1967 film The Happening. Her portrayal of Bonnie Parker in the film Bonnie and Clyde propelled her to fame and earned her first Oscar nomination. Some of his notable films are the crime film The Thomas Crown Affair, from 1968, the drama The Arrangement, also from 1968, the western Little Big Man, from 1970, the film version of The Three Musketeers, from 1973, the mystery film Chinatown —for which she was nominated Oscar for the second time—, the action film The Towering Inferno, from 1974, the political thriller The Three Days of the Condor, from 1975, and the satirical film Network, from 1976 —for which she was awarded the Oscar for best actress.

Her career turned to more mature roles over the next few years, appearing frequently in independent films, most notably her portrayal of Joan Crawford in the 1981 film Mommie Dearest. Other notable works include: the drama Barfly, from 1987, the comedy-drama The Arizona Dream, from 1993, the biopic Gia, from 1998, and the black comedy The Rules of Attraction, from 2002. His participation in the plays A Man for All Seasons, from 1961 to 1963, After the Fall , from 1964, A Streetcar Named Desire, from 1973, and Master Class, from 1996.

Dunaway doesn't give interviews often, makes sporadic public appearances, and is leery about her private life. After having romantic relationships with Jerry Schatzberg and Marcello Mastroianni, she married twice, first with the singer Peter Wolf and then with the photographer Terry O'Neill, with whom she adopted a son, Liam.

Biography

The daughter of a United States Army sergeant, Faye Dunaway studied theater at Boston University and later graduated from the University of Florida.

She began working at the Lincoln Center Repertory Company, where she carved out a good image for herself as an actress.

Bonnie & Clyde

His film debut was in 1967, the year in which he chained three films. He participated with minor roles in The Happening (The Event), a film starring Anthony Quinn, and in La noche deseada (Hurry Sundown ), by Otto Preminger, with a cast led by Michael Caine and Jane Fonda. It was also that year that she landed the role that would mark her rise in Hollywood: that of the thief and fugitive Bonnie Parker in Bonnie & amp; Clyde , by Arthur Penn, where she had Warren Beatty as a partner.This film, considered today a cinema classic, earned the actress her first Oscar nomination.

In 1968 he co-starred with Steve McQueen in The Thomas Crown Affair (he would also take part in a remake directed by John McTiernan 30 years later) and in 1969 he took part in The Arrangement (The Commitment), by Elia Kazan, an ambitious film that failed despite the leading roles of Kirk Douglas and Deborah Kerr.

1970s

During the 1970s, she established herself as an actress and rubbed shoulders with the main actors of the moment in films that are now considered masterful. This is the case of: Little Big Man (1970), with Dustin Hoffman; Chinatown (1974), with Jack Nicholson and John Huston (for which she earned her second Oscar nomination), The Burning Colossus (1974), with Paul Newman and Steve McQueen; Three Days of the Condor (1975), with Robert Redford; and Network, an implacable world (1976), with William Holden, Peter Finch and Robert Duvall, a film for which she finally managed to win the Oscar for best actress and a Golden Globe, thanks to a performance memorable.

He also dabbled in European cinema: directed by René Clement, he filmed in 1971 The Mansion Under the Trees, with Frank Langella, and in 1973 he participated in the blockbuster The Four Musketeers, by Richard Lester.

In 1977 he worked on Journey of the Damned, within an extensive cast of stars (Orson Welles, Max von Sydow, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Maria Schell and Fernando Rey) and in 1978 co-starred with Tommy Lee Jones in The Eyes of Laura Mars, a thriller for the soundtrack of which Barbra Streisand sang the ballad "Prisoner", which was not successful expected. Closing out the decade, she starred in another blockbuster: Franco Zeffirelli's The Champion, alongside John Voight and Ricky Schroder.

1980s

In 1981, her histrionic performance in Mommie Dearest (Dear Mommy ), where she played the legendary actress Joan Crawford, was notable. This film, based on a gritty memoir written by a Crawford's daughter, received mixed reviews upon its release, but it was a box office success (grossing $39 million, costing only $5) and has become time in a cult movie. That same year, Dunaway played Eva Perón in the telefilm Evita Perón, where the role of General Perón was played by James Farentino.

In 1984 Faye Dunaway had less luck when she starred in the failed adaptation of Supergirl, starring Helen Slater and directed by Jeannot Szwarc; Although this film featured other stars such as Peter O'Toole and Mia Farrow, it failed at the box office.

Already with a reputation as a diva (to which her fame as a "difficult" or "temperamental" actress contributed), Faye Dunaway dosed her times and projects, although she made many appearances on television, miniseries and in various plays. She highlights an Italian-American series, Cristóbal Colón (1985), directed by Alberto Lattuada, where she played Isabel la Católica. The cast was led by Gabriel Byrne and included European and American old glories such as Raf Vallone, Elli Wallach, Virna Lisi, Max von Sydow and Elpidia Carrillo.

Dunaway also participated in a three-episode mini-series about the emigrants who arrived at Ellis Island on their journey to New York (Ellis Island, 1984), where she had Richard Burton as a partner. She won her second Golden Globe for this work. In 1985 she also collaborated in two telefilms adapting the adventures of Agatha Christie, where she rubbed shoulders with Donald Sutherland and Peter Ustinov. In 1987 he filmed with Mickey Rourke Barfly ( The drunkard ), directed by Barbet Schroeder based on a story by Charles Bukowski; for this role the actress was nominated for a Golden Globe. The following year she worked with Klaus Maria Brandauer in Burning Secret .

In those years he was offered a relevant role in the soap opera Los Colbys, but he turned it down.

Since 1990

In 1993, he had a leading role in Emir Kusturica's acclaimed film The Arizona Dream.

As a supporting actress, she has participated in a large number of films, such as The Chamber (1996), by James Foley, Joan of Arc i> (1999), by Luc Besson, or Don Juan de Marco (1995), where he had the mythical Marlon Brando as his partenaire in one of his last roles. In 1997 she starred in a Spanish film: In the arms of the mature woman , by Manuel Lombardero.

In 1993 Faye Dunaway was involved in a legal dispute over Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Sunset Boulevard: when the play was being performed in Los Angeles, she was chosen to replace Glenn Close, but the Producers changed their minds by announcing the end of performances when Close finished her contract, arguing that Dunaway did not meet the vocal demands of the role. She considered that such a statement harmed her image and she started a lawsuit. She was finally compensated in a private agreement and the process was filed.

In 1998 Dunaway collaborated with Angelina Jolie on the telefilm Gia, the true story about a drug addicted top model; both actresses won the Golden Globe. On the same dates, the veteran actress participated with a supporting role in The Yards (The Other Side of Crime), a film by James Gray with Mark Wahlberg, James Caan, Joaquin Phoenix and Charlize Theron. Although it received various awards, this production failed at the box office.

In recent years, Faye Dunaway has mainly starred in independent films and television series such as CSI and Grey's Anatomy. By 2009 she announced that she planned to finance and star in a film adaptation of the play Master Class (about the diva of the opera María Callas), but the film was not released. came true.

Bonnie and Clyde Anniversary: Oscar Gala

Faye Dunaway and Mirosław Baka, Balladyna (2009)

On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the film Bonnie and Clyde, the film's stars, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, were in charge of delivering the Oscar for best film of the year in 2017. Their The mistake in announcing the name of the winner, La La Land instead of Moonlight, has gone down in Academy Awards history. This confusion was due to the fact that Beatty and Dunaway read the contents of the wrong envelope, which actually corresponded to another prize.

A year later, the Hollywood Academy compensated both actors by inviting them to once again award the Oscar for Best Picture, which went to The Shape of Water. This time the act took place without incident, although he added some humorous allusion to the previous error.

Filmography

Dunaway at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011.

Awards and nominations

Oscar Awards