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Faye Dunaway Turns 85, Icon of Strong-Willed Screen Roles

Her legacy is defined by forceful performances paired with candid revelations about struggle in a 2024 documentary.

Overview

  • Over more than fifty years, she headlined landmark films such as Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown and Network, winning her sole Oscar for Network after earlier nominations.
  • The 2024 documentary Faye features her speaking openly about bipolar depression, a difficult childhood and how acting became a refuge.
  • She continued working late in life, appearing in the 2017 thriller opposite Nicolas Cage and in Franco Nero’s 2022 independent film with Kevin Spacey.
  • She and Warren Beatty were thrust back into the spotlight by the 2017 Oscars envelope error before returning in 2018 to correctly present Best Picture.
  • Two film projects were announced in 2024 — the romance Fate with Harvey Keitel and the thriller The Evilry — with release timing not yet disclosed.