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Born
January 14, 1941 · Bascom, Florida, USA

Birth name
Dorothy Faye Dunaway

Spouses
Terry O’Neill (1982 – March 26, 1987) (divorced, 1 child)
Peter Wolf (August 7, 1974 – 1979) (divorced)

QUOTES:

[on signing a six-picture deal with Otto Preminger that she later got out of] As much as it cost me to get out of the deal with Otto, if I’d had to do those movies with him, then I wouldn’t have done Bonnie and Clyde (1967), or The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), or any of the movies I was suddenly in a position to choose to do. Beyond the movies I might have missed, it would have been a kind of Chinese water torture to have been stuck in five more terrible movies. It’s impossible to assess the damage that might have done to me that early on in my career.

[on playing an alcoholic in Barfly (1987)] This character, who has given over her days and nights to a bottle, is my way back to the light. This is a role that I care deeply about. I haven’t felt this passion for a character since Network (1976). I saw the promise of a comeback for me in the deglamorized face of Wanda, a woman of sweet vulnerability.

[on Supergirl (1984)] The film was really just a send-up, a spoof, and I had a lot of fun with Selena. But every time I tried to do something funny, [director Jeannot Szwarc] wouldn’t let me. He said, “you have to be the straight person”. I always wanted to do comedy but it’s daunting when you’ve not done it before.