Faye Dunaway’s 10 best performances – ranked!

Faye Dunaway’s 10 best performances – ranked!

Faye Dunaway in 1967’s Bonnie and Clyde
The film that launched a fashion trend … Faye Dunaway in 1967’s Bonnie and Clyde. Photograph: Arts/Tatir/REX/Shutterstock

Ahead of the Oscar-winning actor’s 82nd birthday this weekend, we mark her finest moments, from camp histrionics to the most archetypal of femmes fatales

A kleptomaniac orangutan wreaks havoc in a posh hotel, leading to some inspired farce involving bananas and small dogs. But the highlight is when Dunaway, as the snobbish hotel owner, falls backwards into a big cream cake with an orangutan on top of her. No apologies for including it in this selection since it is one of cinema’s finest moments.

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