Faye Dunaway

Faye Dunaway
Actress, Chinatown

Born: January 14, 1941 (age 73), Bascom, Florida, United States
Height: 1.70 m
Children: Liam Dunaway O'Neill
Spouse: Terry O'Neill (m. 1983–1987), Peter Wolf (m. 1974–1979)
Awards: Academy Award for Best Actress, 

Faye Dunaway was born on a farm in Bascom, Florida; the daughter of an army officer and a housewife. She graduated high school in 1958, and after a stint as a beauty queen she intended to pursue education at the University of Florida, but switched to acting, earning her degree from Boston University in 1962. She was given the enviable task of choosing between a Fulbright Scholarship to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts or a role in the Broadway production of “A Man For All Seasons” as a member of the American National Theatre and Academy. She picked the latter, enjoying a fruitful stage career for the next two years. She made her small-screen debut on the television series “Seaway” (1965) and appeared in a few quietly received films before landing the lead

role of bank robber Bonnie Parker in Bonnie and Clyde (1967), one of the all-time classics in American cinema. It was that film which catapulted her to superstardom, and from then on she was in demand everywhere, holding her own against some of the biggest macho stars of the period, including Steve McQueen, Jack Nicholson, Robert Redford, and Paul Newman.