Mini Biography Faye Dunaway

Faye Dunaway was born on a farm in Bascom, Florida; the daughter of an army officer and a housewife. She graduated high school in 1958, and after a stint as a beauty queen she intended to pursue education at the University of Florida, but switched to acting, earning her degree from Boston University in 1962.
The doorbell on an East 78th Street apartment at the focus of a landlord's suit against the actress Faye Dunaway and her son, Liam Dunaway O'Neill.
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Now Faye Dunaway is a defendant in case No. 76667/11 in Manhattan housing court, just another rent-stabilized tenant facing eviction.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, her landlord claims that Ms. Dunaway, who pays $1,048.72 a month for a one-bedroom walk-up apartment in a century-old tenement building on East 78th Street, does not actually live there, but rather lives in California. The suit also names her son, Liam Dunaway O’Neill, whose father is the photographer Terry O’Neill, as a subtenant in the apartment.
As proof, the landlord, unnamed in court papers, states that Ms. Dunaway owns a home in West Hollywood, and has her voter and automobile registrations there. Ms. Dunaway, 70, does not appear to be living glamorously. That apartment, one of the first projects completed by Gwathmey, Henderson & Siegel, in 1969, featured curved walls and mirrored doors.
Henry Moses, listed in court papers as the building’s managing agent, did not return messages. If Ms. Dunaway leaves, the landlord is likely to get far more rent. Ms. Dunaway rented her current apartment on the Upper East Side on Aug. 1, 1994, in a six-story yellow brick building with fire escapes in the front. The name next to the outdoor buzzer reads “F. Dunaway.” Keith Cohen, owner of Orwasher’s Bakery near Ms. Dunaway’s apartment, said that employees had told him when he arrived in 2007 that Ms. Dunaway lived nearby, but that he had never seen her.
Ms. Dunaway’s Twitter feed shows no mention of her being in New York recently. ¶Correction: August 9, 2011