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 elected to re-edit Kusturica's film, cutting and changing it. Dunaway was dismayed to find that some of her best scenes were left out of the American version. Warner Bros. released the film in United States in 1994 to positive reviews, but little box office. That same year, Dunaway was cast in the short-lived CBS sitcom, "It Had to Be You". Around that time, she was contacted by NBC who wanted her to take on the role of a female sleuth, more in the vein of "Columbo" than "Murder, She Wrote". As the prospective series was being developed, Dunaway contacted "Columbo"