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Steve McQueen named her as the best actress he ever worked with.

Despite her clashes with Roman Polanski, she referred to Chinatown (1974) as "possibly the best film I ever made".

While working as a cocktail waitress in her last year of college, Faye was hit on so often that she went out and bought herself a cheap wedding band to keep the advances at bay.

Her first husband, Peter Wolf, was the lead singer of the rock band J. Geils.

In order to be taken seriously as an actress, she turned down a regular role on Sentieri (1952) in 1965.

Her performance as Bonnie Parker in Gangster Story (1967) is ranked #34 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.

Bette Davis described Dunaway as the worst person she had ever worked with in an interview with Johnny Carson in 1988, calling her "totally impossible", "uncooperative", and "very unprofessional". Dunaway denied Davis' claims in her autobiography, writing "Watching her, all I could think of was that she seemed like someone caught in a death throe, a final scream against a fate over which no one has control. I was just the target of her blind rage at the one sin Hollywood never forgives in its leading ladies: growing old.".

According to the DVD commentary by John Waters on Mammina cara (1981), 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).

The role of Evelyn Mulwray in Chinatown (1974) was originally marked for Ali MacGraw, wife of the film's producer Robert Evans. By the time production started, MacGraw had left Evans for actor Steve McQueen and other actresses were considered for the role. Dunaway's main competition for the role was Jane Fonda.

Cohabited with Marcello Mastroianni (1968-1970). When after two years together Marcello still refused to divorce his estranged wife and marry Faye, she broke up with him.

Had a drug problem in her 30s.

She has appeared in four films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant": Gangster Story (1967), Piccolo grande uomo (1970), Chinatown (1974) and Quinto potere (1976).

She presented the Palme d'Or to Wim Wenders for Paris, Texas (1984) at the 37th Cannes Film Festival in 1984.

In August 2011, her New York City landlord was seeking to evict Dunaway from a rent-stabilized one-bedroom apartment, alleging she was not entitled to it since her primary residence is a house in West Hollywood.

Her small production company, Port Bascom, is named for her hometown.

Her performance as Evelyn Cross Mulwray in Chinatown (1974) is ranked #36 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time.

One of only four actresses, along with Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock and Liza Minnelli, to win both the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Razzie Award for Worst Actress (Dunaway shared her award with Bo Derek).

She is a devout Roman Catholic and has said that she attends morning Mass regularly.

Attended Boston University. Gave up a Fulbright Scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London to join the original training program at the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater in New York. She got her first starring role in "A Man for All Seasons" just days after graduating from college. She was the daughter of a career army man which resulted in her traveling constantly in her early life.

Born 2½ months premature.

Good friends with actress Sharon Stone.

As of 2018, has starred in four Oscar Best Picture nominees: Gangster Story (1967), Chinatown (1974), L'inferno di cristallo (1974) and Quinto potere (1976).

In an unprecedented envelope mix-up, she announced La La Land (2016) as the Best Picture winner at L'89° Academy Awards (2017) instead of the actual winner, Moonlight (2016). (26 febbraio 2017)

After playing famed opera singer Maria Callas in a touring stage production of "Master Class" in 1996, Dunaway bought the rights to the play and announced her intention of writing, directing and starring in a film version. For nearly two decades it has been in development limbo.

Converted to Roman Catholicism while in Boston, Massachusetts. (27 dicembre 1996)

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

Is the only actor/actress to have appeared in both the 1968 version (Il caso Thomas Crown (1968)) and 1999 version (Gioco a due (1999)) of "The Thomas Crown Affair".

Her favourite actresses include Naomi Watts, Julianne Moore, Jennifer Lawrence and Melissa McCarthy. She's also a fan of Christian Bale and Bradley Cooper.

Member of Pi Beta Phi Sorority.

Jane Fonda, Ann-Margret, Tuesday Weld and Natalie Wood were each offered Dunaway's breakthrough role of Bonnie Parker in Gangster Story (1967), which they all turned down. Other actresses up for the role included Leslie Caron (who was rejected as too old), Sue Lyon, Carol Lynley, Jean Hale, Cher, and even Warren Beatty's big sister Shirley MacLaine (before Beatty signed on to play Clyde, of course).

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.

She was honored with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on September 26, 1996.

In the book "Son of Golden Turkey Awards" (1986) by Harry and Michael Medved, Faye won the award for "The Most Ludicrous On Screen Impersonation of a Hollywood Legend" for her performance as Joan Crawford in Mammina cara (1981).

She was awarded Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by French culture minister Frédéric Mitterrand on May 15, 2011.

Broke her leg a few days before filming Inconceivable (2017) but director Jonathan Baker refused to recast the role, as it had been written specifically for her, and rewrote her role so that she would be able to perform sitting down.

Before living in a very modest New York City apartment on East 78th Street between First and Second Avenues, Dunaway had resided at the huge, sumptuous Eldorado on Central Park West.

By her own admission in a New York Times interview many years back, she and late comedian Lenny Bruce were briefly lovers and lived together for a week, circa 1963. She was also engaged to director Jerry Schatzberg in the mid-1960s.

Moved to Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah (1954). Joined the "Skull Valley Players" and the first production was "Harvey" as Nurse Kelly. She was age 13 at the time in eighth grade. She stayed in Utah until her sophomore year in high school at Dugway.

Dunaway was fired from the Broadway-bound play "Tea at Five" in July 2019 due to altercations between her and crew members. On August 14, the actress' former personal assistant sued her in Manhattan Supreme Court, alleging verbal harassment and discrimination. The lawsuit is currently pending.

She was the first recipient of a Leopard Club Award that honors film professionals whose work has left a mark on the collective imagination. She made a rare personal appearance at the Locarno International Film Festival to accept the award.

Born to John MacDowell Dunaway, Jr. (1920-1984), a cook in the United States Army, and Grace April Hartshorn (née Smith; 1922-2004), no profession. They married in 1939 and divorced in 1955. Faye had one brother, Mac Simmion Dunaway (1942-2022), a Washington, D.C. based lawyer.

No longer smokes cigarettes (quit 1990) or drinks alcohol and has cut sugar, salt and most grains from her diet.

In 2014, she was recognized as the guest of honor by the Lumière Film Festival. Organizers praised the "immense contribution she has made to the emergence of the independent American films of the sixties and seventies, and the contribution is of the highest caliber". Her attendance at the festival was described as an "exceptional event". Dunaway received a standing ovation by a crowd of 5,000, and declared in an emotional speech following the tribute she received, "My fans and my friends have supported me in this search for all these years, and I thank you from all of my heart, and without you, I would not be the same Faye Dunaway.".

Studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village, New York City.

Was hired to replace Glenn Close as Norma Desmond in the Broadway production of "Sunset Boulevard". However, she was dismissed as Andrew Lloyd Webber felt her voice was not up to the role.

Considers Mannequin - Frammenti di una donna (1970) to be her most underrated movie.

Ranked #65 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. (ottobre 1997)

She was considered for the role of "Betsy" in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), which later went to Cybill Shepherd.

Each of the three times she was Oscar nominated for Best Actress (for Gangster Story (1967), Chinatown (1974) and Quinto potere (1976)) the film she was in was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography.

She is only 11 years younger than Gene Hackman, who played her father in L'ultimo appello (1996).