Sally Field

Acting · 3.0 popularity

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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

20126.7

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

20146.6

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

Soapdish

19916.3

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

19937.0

Where the Heart Is

20007.1

Not Without My Daughter

19916.7

Smokey and the Bandit

19777.0

80 for Brady

20236.2

Marty, Life Is Short

20267.9

Places in the Heart

19847.2

Smokey and the Bandit II

19805.6

Spoiler Alert

20227.0

Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco

19966.6

Two Weeks

20066.1

Eye for an Eye

19966.3

The Way West

19676.1

Hooper

19786.3

Stay Hungry

19765.7

Hello, My Name Is Doris

20156.3

Little Evil

20175.6

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

19795.1

Mickey's 50

19789.0

Absence of Malice

19816.6

Spielberg

20177.5

Norma Rae

19797.2

Moon Pilot

19625.5

Say It Isn't So

20014.7

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

19916.5

Punchline

19885.5

Barbra Streisand: One Voice

19867.6

Back Roads

19815.4

Marriage: Year One

19716.0

Merry Christmas, George Bailey

19976.0

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

19876.5

Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump

19947.5

Kiss Me Goodbye

19825.9

Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn

20127.3

The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful

199610.0

Bridger

197610.0

The End

19785.6

Murphy's Romance

19856.2

A Century of Cinema

19948.3

Heroes

19776.2

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

19966.4

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

20076.0

I Am Burt Reynolds

20207.1

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

1989

The Desert of Forbidden Art

20114.7

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

19947.0

Love Letters

2020

Voices That Care

19917.0

David Copperfield

20016.3

Surrender

19875.0

Home for the Holidays

19745.5

National Theatre Live: All My Sons

20198.5

Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring

19715.7

All the Way Home

19817.0

Mongo's Back in Town

19716.1

Brothers & Sisters: Family Album

2007

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

19988.0

Lily for President?

1982

Lee Strasberg: The Method Man

1997

A Cooler Climate

19994.8

The Greatest Stuntman Alive

1978

Hitched

19737.3

Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire

2015

The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"

20016.0

Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story

2010

The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning

20086.7