Sally Field
Sally Field
Biography
Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American actress. She has received many awards and nominations, including two Academy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and nominations for a Tony Award and for two British Academy Film Awards. Field began her career on television, starring in the comedies Gidget (1965–1966), The Flying Nun (1967–1970), and The Girl with Something Extra (1973–1974). In 1967, she was also in the western The Way West. In 1976, she attracted critical acclaim for her performance in the television film Sybil, for which she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. Her film debut was as an extra in Moon Pilot (1962). Her film career escalated during the 1970s with starring roles in films including Stay Hungry (1976), Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Heroes (1977), The End (1978), and Hooper (1978). During the 1980s she won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice for Norma Rae (1979) and Places in the Heart (1984), and she appeared in Smokey and the Bandit II (1980), Absence of Malice (1981), Kiss Me Goodbye (1982), Murphy's Romance (1985), Steel Magnolias (1989), Soapdish (1991), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), and Forrest Gump (1994). In the 2000s, Field returned to television with a recurring role on the NBC medical drama ER, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2001 and the following year made her stage debut with Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?. For her portrayal of Nora Walker in the ABC television family drama series Brothers & Sisters (2006-2011), Field won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She starred as Mary Todd Lincoln in Lincoln (2012), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and she portrayed Aunt May in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and its 2014 sequel, with the first being her highest-grossing release. In 2015, she portrayed the title character in Hello, My Name Is Doris, for which she was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in a Comedy. In 2017, she returned to the stage after an absence of 15 years with the revival of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, for which was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. In 2014, she was presented with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 2019, she received the Kennedy Center Honor.
Known For
Actor
as Betty
as Marilyn
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Jessie Buss
as Melissa Gardner
as Janice
as Kate Keller
as Dr. Greta Mantleray
as Self
as Miss Shaylock
as Self
as Doris Miller
as Self - Guest
as Aunt May
as Self
as Mary Todd Lincoln
as Aunt May
as Self
as Voice
as Self - Guest
as Marina Del Ray (voice)
as Self
as Anita Bergman
as Nora Walker
as Self
as Rep. Victoria Rudd
as Self
as Justice Kate Nolan
as Aunt Betsey Trotwood
as Valdine Wingfield
as Mama Lil
as Iris
as Self / Host
as Self - Host
as Trudy Cooper
as Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
as Self
as Self
as Junie Harper (voice)
as Self (archive footage)
as Sassy (voice)
as Karen McCann
as Bess Alcott Steed Garner
as Self
as Mrs. Gump
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Maggie Wyczenski
as Self
as Miranda Hillard
as Sassy (voice)
as Self (archive footage)
as Sally Field
as Self - Hostess
as Celeste Talbert
as Self - Choir Member
as Betty Mahmoody
as M'Lynn Eatenton
as Self
as Lilah Krytsick
as Daisy Morgan
as Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)
as Emma Moriarty
as Edna Spalding
as Kay
as Beth Barber
as Mary Follet
as Megan Carter
as Amy Post
as Carrie
as Celeste Whitman
as Norma Rae
as Self
as Gwen Doyle
as Mary Ellen
as Carol Bell
as Carrie 'Frog'
as Sybil
as Jennifer Melford
as Mary Tate Farnsworth
as Sybil
as Self - Host
as Christine Morgan
as Sally Burton
as Vikki
as Jane Duden
as Roselle Bridgeman
as Denise "Dennie" Miller
as Self
as Irene Evans
as Self - Guest
as Mercy McBee
as Self
as Sister Bertrille
as Self
as Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence
as Self
as Self - Nominee
as Self - Presenter
as Self
as Self - Presenter
as Self - Presenter
as Self - Nominee
as Self - Presenter/Winner
Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Producer
Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
Writer
as Teleplay
Crew
as Thanks