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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1946-11-06 (78 years old)

Place of Birth

Pasadena, California, USA

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

Acting

2023

80 for Brady as Betty

2022

2020

Love Letters as Melissa Gardner

2019

2018

Maniac as Dr. Greta Mantleray

2017

Little Evil as Miss Shaylock
Spielberg as Self

2016

Chelsea as Self

2015

2014

2012

Lincoln as Mary Todd Lincoln

2011

2009

2008

2007

2006

Two Weeks as Anita Bergman
Brothers and Sisters as Nora Walker

2004

2003

2002

The Court as Justice Kate Nolan

2001

Say It Isn't So as Valdine Wingfield
David Copperfield as Aunt Betsey Trotwood

2000

Where the Heart Is as Mama Lil

1999

1998

1997

Merry Christmas, George Bailey! as Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
King of the Hill as Junie Harper (voice)
The View as Self

1996

1995

A Woman of Independent Means as Bess Alcott Steed Garner

1994

1993

Mrs. Doubtfire as Miranda Hillard
Intimate Portrait as Self (archive footage)

1992

1991

Soapdish as Celeste Talbert
Not Without My Daughter as Betty Mahmoody
Voices That Care as Self - Choir Member

1989

1988

1987

Surrender as Daisy Morgan

1986

Barbra Streisand: One Voice as Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)

1985

Murphy's Romance as Emma Moriarty

1984

Places in the Heart as Edna Spalding

1982

1981

Back Roads as Amy Post
Absence of Malice as Megan Carter
All the Way Home as Mary Follet

1980

1979

Norma Rae as Norma Rae

1978

The End as Mary Ellen
Hooper as Gwen Doyle
Mickey's 50 as Self

1977

Smokey and the Bandit as Carrie 'Frog'
Heroes as Carol Bell

1976

Stay Hungry as Mary Tate Farnsworth
Bridger as Jennifer Melford
Sybil as Sybil

1975

Saturday Night Live as Self - Host

1974

Home for the Holidays as Christine Morgan

1973

1971

1970

Night Gallery as Irene Evans

1968

The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1967

The Way West as Mercy McBee
The Flying Nun as Sister Bertrille

1966

1965

Gidget as Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence

1962

1961

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
Tony Awards as Self - Presenter

1954

1953

The Oscars as Self

1949

The Emmy Awards as Self - Presenter

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter/Winner
Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner

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Production

1996

The Christmas Tree as Executive Producer

1995

A Woman of Independent Means as Executive Producer

1991

Dying Young as Producer

Directing

2000

Beautiful as Director

1996

The Christmas Tree as Director

Writing

1996

The Christmas Tree as Teleplay

Crew

1997

Eye of God as Thanks