Faye Dunaway filmography Faye Dunaway filmography Faye Dunaway is an American actress who appeared in over seventy films, thirty television shows, eleven plays and two music videos. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses of her generation, she was one of the leading actresses during the golden age of New Hollywood. After her film debut "The Happening", she starred in the gangster film "Bonnie and Clyde", in which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She starred with Steve McQueen in "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968) . In 1969, she co-starred with Kirk Douglas in Elia Kazan's drama "The Arrangement".
Faye Dunaway the 50 most beautiful people and in 1997 she was ranked 65th by "Empire Magazine" on a list of the 100 top stars in film history. Famously demanding, with an attention to detail that sometimes drove costars and directors mad, Dunaway believed she was often mistaken for being as cold and calculating as some of the women she portrayed. Her clashes with Roman Polanski on the set of "Chinatown" earned her a reputation for being difficult to work with. Upon the release of the film, Polanski told a reporter for "Rolling Stone" that he considered Dunaway "a gigantic pain in