
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.
Filmografi
Forrest Gump1994 · Mrs. Gump
The Amazing Spider-Man2012 · Aunt May
The Amazing Spider-Man 22014 · Aunt May
Remarkably Bright Creatures2026 · Tova Sullivan
Mrs. Doubtfire1993 · Miranda Hillard
Lincoln2012 · Mary Todd Lincoln
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde2003 · Victoria Rudd
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey1993 · Sassy (voice)
Steel Magnolias1989 · M'Lynn Eatenton
Hooper1978 · Gwen Doyle
Marty, Life Is Short2026 · Self (archive footage)
Smokey and the Bandit1977 · Carrie
Soapdish1991 · Celeste Talbert
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco1996 · Sassy (voice)
Not Without My Daughter1991 · Betty Mahmoody
Where the Heart Is2000 · Mama Lil
80 for Brady2023 · Betty
Smokey and the Bandit II1980 · Carrie
Eye for an Eye1996 · Karen McCann
Places in the Heart1984 · Edna Spalding
Spoiler Alert2022 · Marilyn
Dolly Parton: An American Original – Special Edition of 20/202026 · Self (archive footage)
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home2022 · Self (archive footage)
The Way West1967 · Mercy McBee
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