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Dunaway's career evolved to more mature and character roles in subsequent years...
Faye Dunaway is a celebrated American actress who won an Academy Award for Best Actress for playing Diana Christensen in the 1976 film Network.
A host of other films would have been equally good choices: Bonnie and Clyde, The Thomas Crown Affair, Little Big Man, Three Days of the Condor, or even Mommie Dearest.
But trying to direct a movie is proving far more challenging than becoming the darling of New Hollywood Cinema.
In 1997, Dunaway played diva Maria Callas on stage for a year in Terrence Mc Nally's Tony Award-winning play Master Class.
It was great casting given the similarities between the career and personalities of Callas and Dunaway; they were both seen as perfectionists whose run-ins with directors had them castigated as prima donnas.She began her acting career in the early 1960s on Broadway.Her star status was enhanced in the 1970s by critically praised performances in Chinatown and Network, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.In general, Faye Dunaway ranks as the 3071st most popular famous person, and the 562nd most popular actress of all time.“The Famous Birthdays” catalogs over 25,000 famous people, everyone from actors to singers to scientists to serial killers and more.As a person born on this date, Faye Dunaway is listed in our database as the 10th most popular celebrity for the day (January 14) and the 21st most popular for the year (1941).