Sally Field

Acting · 3.6 popularity

Age

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Born: November 6, 1946
From: Pasadena, California, USA

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.

Works

75 films

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

20146.5

The Amazing Spider-Man

20126.7

Forrest Gump

19948.5

Remarkably Bright Creatures

20268.5

Mrs. Doubtfire

19937.2

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

20035.7

Lincoln

20126.8

Steel Magnolias

19897.2

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

19937.0

Where the Heart Is

20007.1

Smokey and the Bandit

19777.0

80 for Brady

20236.2

Marty, Life Is Short

20267.9

Not Without My Daughter

19916.7

Spoiler Alert

20227.0

Soapdish

19916.3

Places in the Heart

19847.2

Smokey and the Bandit II

19805.6

Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco

19966.6

Eye for an Eye

19966.3

Stay Hungry

19765.7

The Way West

19676.1

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

19795.1

Little Evil

20175.6

Hooper

19786.3

Hello, My Name Is Doris

20156.3

Spielberg

20177.5

Absence of Malice

19816.6

Say It Isn't So

20014.7

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

19916.5

Moon Pilot

19625.5

Two Weeks

20066.1

Punchline

19885.5

Norma Rae

19797.2

Barbra Streisand: One Voice

19867.6

Back Roads

19815.4

Kiss Me Goodbye

19825.9

Murphy's Romance

19856.2

The End

19785.6

Merry Christmas, George Bailey

19976.0

Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn

20127.3

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

19876.5

Marriage: Year One

19716.0

Mickey's 50

19789.0

Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump

19947.5

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

19966.4

Bridger

197610.0

Heroes

19776.2

The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful

199610.0

The Desert of Forbidden Art

20114.7

Voices That Care

19917.0

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

19947.0

A Century of Cinema

19948.3

I Am Burt Reynolds

20207.1

The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo

20076.0

Love Letters

2020

National Theatre Live: All My Sons

20198.5

Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring

19715.7

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

1989

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies

19988.0

David Copperfield

20016.3

Home for the Holidays

19745.5

Brothers & Sisters: Family Album

2007

Surrender

19875.0

Mongo's Back in Town

19716.1

A Cooler Climate

19994.8

All the Way Home

19817.0

Lee Strasberg: The Method Man

1997

Lily for President?

1982

The Greatest Stuntman Alive

1978

Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire

2015

The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"

20016.0

Hitched

19737.3

Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story

2010

The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning

20086.7