Sissy Spacek

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1949-12-25 (74 years old)

Place of Birth Quitman, Texas, USA

Also Known As 시시 스페이섹

Sissy Spacek

Biography

Mary Elizabeth 'Sissy' Spacek (born December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for four British Academy Film Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. Spacek was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011. Born and raised in Texas, she initially aspired to a career as a recording artist. In 1968, at age 18, she recorded a single, "John, You Went Too Far This Time," under the name Rainbo. She began her professional acting career in the early 1970s, making her debut as an extra in Andy Warhol's Women in Revolt (1971). Her breakout role came with Terrence Malick's influential crime film Badlands (1973), which earned her a nomination for the British Academy Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles. She rose to international prominence with her portrayal of Carrie White in Brian De Palma's horror film Carrie (1976), for which she received her first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. After appearing in the acclaimed films Welcome to L.A. (1976) and Robert Altman's 3 Women (1977), she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn in the biographical musical film Coal Miner's Daughter (1980). Her other Oscar-nominated roles include Missing (1982), The River (1984), Crimes of the Heart (1986), and In the Bedroom (2001). Her other prominent films include Raggedy Man (1981), JFK (1991), Affliction (1997), The Straight Story (1999), Tuck Everlasting (2002), Nine Lives (2005), North Country (2005), Four Christmases (2008), Get Low (2010), The Help (2011), and The Old Man & the Gun (2018). She received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the television films The Good Old Boys (1995) and Last Call (2002), and for her guest role on the HBO drama series Big Love (2011). She portrayed matriarch Sally Rayburn on the Netflix drama thriller series Bloodline (2015–2017), Ruth Deaver on the Hulu psychological horror series Castle Rock (2018), and Ellen Bergman on the Amazon Prime Video psychological thriller series Homecoming (2018). She has also ventured into music, and recorded vocals for the soundtrack album of Coal Miner's Daughter, which peaked at number two on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart and garnered her a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. She released a studio album, Hangin' Up My Heart (1983), which was critically well-received and peaked at number 17 on Billboard Top Country Albums chart.

Known For

Actor

2022
Sam & Kate

as Tina

2022
Night Sky

as Irene York

2021
Without Getting Killed or Caught

as Narrator / Voice of Susanna Clark (voice)

2018
Homecoming

as Ellen Bergman

2018
Castle Rock

as Ruth Deaver

2016
HyperNormalisation

as Self (archive footage)

2016
River of Gold

as Narrator

2016
2015
Bloodline

as Sally Rayburn

2014
And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

2013
2012
Deadfall

as June

2011
The Help

as Missus Walters

2010
Get Low

as Mattie Darrow

2008
2008
Lake City

as Maggie

2007
Pictures of Hollis Woods

as Josie Cahill

2007
Hot Rod

as Marie Powell

2006
Gray Matters

as Dr. Sydney

2006
Big Love

as Marilyn Densham

2005
Nine Lives

as Ruth

2005
2005
The Ring Two

as Evelyn

2005
North Country

as Alice Aimes

2004
2003
2002
Tuck Everlasting

as Mae Tuck

2002
Last Call

as Zelda Fitzgerald

2001
In the Bedroom

as Ruth Fowler

2001
2001
Visualizing 'Carrie'

as Self (archive footage)

2001
Midwives

as Sibyl Danforth

2000
Songs In Ordinary Time

as Marie Fermoyle

1999
1999
The Rage: Carrie 2

as Carrie White (archive footage) (uncredited)

1999
1998
Affliction

as Margie Fogg

1997
The View

as Self

1996
If These Walls Could Talk

as Barbara Barrows

1996
Beyond the Call

as Pam O'Brien

1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show

as Self - Guest

1995
The Grass Harp

as Verena Talbo

1995
The Good Old Boys

as Spring Renfro

1995
1995
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain

as Martha Jefferson Randolph (voice)

1994
A Place for Annie

as Susan Lansing

1994
Trading Mom

as Mommy / Mama / Mom / Natasha

1992
A Private Matter

as Sherri Finkbine

1992
Hard Promises

as Christine Ann Coalter

1992
Fonda on Fonda

as Self - The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (archive footage)

1992
1991
JFK

as Liz Garrison

1991
The Talking Eggs

as Narrator (voice)

1991
Voices That Care

as Self - Choir Member

1990
The Long Walk Home

as Miriam Thompson

1987
Seitenblicke

as self

1986
Crimes of the Heart

as Babe Magrath

1986
'night, Mother

as Jessie Cates

1986
Violets are Blue

as Augusta "Gussie" Sawyer

1985
Marie: A True Story

as Marie Ragghianti

1984
The River

as Mae Garvey

1983
The Man with Two Brains

as Anne Uumellmahaye (uncredited) (voice)

1982
Missing

as Beth Horman

1981
Raggedy Man

as Nita

1980
Heart Beat

as Carolyn Cassady

1980
Coal Miner's Daughter

as Loretta Lynn

1978
Verna: USO Girl

as Verna Vane

1977
3 Women

as Mildred "Pinky" Rose

1976
Welcome to L.A.

as Linda Murray

1976
Carrie

as Carrie

1975
Katherine

as Katherine Alman

1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

1975
Arena

as Self

1974
The Migrants

as Wanda Trimpin

1973
Badlands

as Holly Sargis

1973
Ginger in the Morning

as Ginger Brown

1972
Prime Cut

as Poppy

1971
Great Performances

as Verna Vane

1953
The Oscars

as Self

1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Susan Lansing

Art

1977
Death Game

as Set Dresser

1974

Crew

1997
Eye of God

as Thanks

Sound