For the actress' birthday, L'OFFICIEL recounts Hollywood star Faye Dunaway's captivating youth on screen.

American movie icon <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/gucci-new-campaign-faye-dunaway-soko" target="_blank">Faye Dunaway</a> turns 80 today. From time honored roles like&nbsp;lady bandit&nbsp;Bonnie Parker in Bonnie and Clyde&nbsp;to that of&nbsp;controversial screenstar Joan Crawford in&nbsp;Mommie Dearest,&nbsp;and her darkly satirical Oscar-winning perfomrance&nbsp;in&nbsp;The Network,&nbsp;Dunaway has anchored her career in <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/pop%20culture/manolo-blahnik-favorite-classic-films" target="_blank">classic&nbsp;films</a>. In celebration of the movie star&#39;s birthday this year, L&#39;OFFICIEL&nbsp;flashes back with 15 favorite young Dunaway movies.

Dunaway looks killer in her 1967, breakout role as Bonnie Parker in "Bonnie and Clyde."

The actress reversed roles here as a criminal investigator in 1968's "The Thomas Crown Affair." 

Dunaway and Marcello Mastroianni get close in the 1969 tragic romance "A Place For Lovers." 

A flirtatious and classically considered movie moment, Dunaway bathes Dustin Hoffman in the 1970 film "Little Big Man."

The “Three Musketeers," moment that sparked a million memes, Dunaway makes an unforgettable face as Milady in the 1973 movie.

 Perhaps her most glamorous role, Dunaway plays opposite Paul Newman in the 1974 three-time Oscar nominated film "The Towering Inferno."

The 1974 movie "Chinatown" remade the actress’ image as an on-screen siren as serious as she was sexy.

The film star earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in "Three Days of the Condor."

Dunaway received an Academy Award win for Best Actress for her role in the 1976 satire “The Network.”

A vision of mid-1900s aristocracy, Dunaway plays Denise Kreisler in "A Voyage of The Damned." 

A haunting 1978 performance, Dunaway plays the tortured fashion photographer Laura in "The Eyes of Laura Mars."

The actress is the wife of Jon Voight in the 1979 tearjerker "The Champ."

A controversial biographic role for Dunaway, the actress plays screen legend Joan Crawford in 1981's "Mommie Dearest."

Dunaway makes for a chic villainess in “Supergirl.”

The 1987 role that marked the actress' return to the U.S. from a number of years spent in London and that earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, Dunaway plays Wanda Wilcox in "Barfly."

From 'Casanova' to 'Bonnie and Clyde': 15 Photos of Young Faye Dunaway in Film

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