Editing Faye Dunaway (section)

==Early life and education==
Dunaway was born in [[Bascom, Florida]], the daughter of Grace April (née Smith), a housewife, and John MacDowell Dunaway Jr., a career [[non-commissioned officer]] in the [[United States Army]].<ref name="biography.com"/> Her parents married as teenagers in 1939 and they divorced in 1955.<ref>''Tallahassee Democrat'', November 25, 1955, p. [https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/249921309/ 14]</ref> She had one younger brother, lawyer Mac Simmion Dunaway.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.saulsfh.com/obituary/Mac-Dunaway|title=Mac Dunaway Obituary|website=Sauls Funeral Home|date=July 13, 2022}}</ref> She is of [[Ulster Scots people|Ulster Scottish]], [[Irish people|Irish]], and [[Germans|German]] descent.<ref name="people-lester-1981"/><ref>'Current Biography Yearbook, Volume 33'. H.W. Wilson Co., 1973. Original from the University of Virginia</ref><ref>Johns, Stephanie Bernardo. 'The Ethnic Almanac'. Stephanie Bernardo Johns. Doubleday, 1981 {{ISBN|0-385-14143-2}}, {{ISBN|978-0-385-14143-7}}. Page 445</ref> She spent her childhood traveling throughout the United States and Europe, including lengthy stays in [[Mannheim]], Germany, and [[Dugway Proving Ground]], Utah.{{sfnb|Dunaway|1995|pp=36–41}}

Dunaway took [[ballet]], [[Tap dance|tap]], [[piano]], and [[singing]] lessons while she was growing up and she graduated from [[Leon High School]] in [[Tallahassee, Florida]]. She then studied at [[Florida State University]] and the [[University of Florida]], later, she graduated from [[Boston University]] with a degree in [[theatre]].<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bu.edu/articles/2024/when-arthur-miller-came-to-see-what-bu-did-with-the-crucible/|title=When Arthur Miller Came to See What BU Did with The Crucible|first=Stephanie Eastwood|last=CFA '81|date=February 10, 2024|website=Boston University}}</ref> 

She spent the summer before her senior year in a [[Summer stock theater|summer-stock company]] at Harvard's [[Loeb Drama Center]], where one of her co-players was [[Jane Alexander]], an actress and future head of the [[National Endowment for the Arts]].{{sfnb|Dunaway|1995|p=61}}  During her senior year, she worked with director [[Lloyd Richards]] on a BU production of a new version of ''[[The Crucible]]'', where [[Arthur Miller]] saw her perform.<ref name="auto"/> Following graduation in 1962, at the age of 21, she took acting classes at the [[American National Theater and Academy]], and was recommended to director [[Elia Kazan]], who was in search of young talent for his Lincoln Center Repertory Company.<ref name="people-lester-1981"/> She also studied acting at [[HB Studio]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://hbstudio.org/about-hb-studio/alumni/ |title=HB Studio Alumni |access-date=2019-02-15 |archive-date=2017-12-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171202154941/https://hbstudio.org/about-hb-studio/alumni/ |url-status=live }}</ref> in New York City.

Shortly after she graduated from Boston University, Dunaway appeared on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] as a replacement in [[Robert Bolt]]'s drama ''[[A Man for All Seasons (play)|A Man for All Seasons]]''. She subsequently appeared in [[Arthur Miller]]'s ''[[After the Fall (play)|After the Fall]]'' and the award-winning ''[[Hogan's Goat]]'' by Harvard professor [[William Alfred]], who became her mentor and spiritual advisor. In her 1995 autobiography, Dunaway said of him: "With the exception of my mother, my brother, and my beloved son, Bill Alfred has been without question the most important single figure in my lifetime. A teacher, a mentor, and I suppose the father I never had, the parent and companion I would always have wanted, if that choice had been mine. He has taught me so much about the virtue of a simple life, about spirituality, about the purity of real beauty, and how to go at this messy business of life."{{sfnb|Dunaway|1995|p=89}}