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Sally Field

Actor, Producer, Director, Additional Credits
Born November 6, 1946 (77 years)
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.
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
Known For
  • Forrest Gump
  • Lincoln
  • Mrs. Doubtfire
  • The Amazing Spider-Man
  • Steel Magnolias
  • The Amazing Spider-Man 2
  • Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
  • Smokey and the Bandit
  • Norma Rae
  • Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
  • Places in the Heart
  • Hello, My Name Is Doris
  • Eye for an Eye
  • Soapdish
  • Absence of Malice
  • Maniac (2018)
  • Brothers & Sisters
  • Not Without My Daughter
  • Sybil
  • Punchline
  • Murphy's Romance
  • Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
  • Where the Heart Is
  • Dying Young

Filmography

2023
80 for Brady · as Betty
2022
Spoiler Alert · as Marilyn
2022
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (TV Series) · as Jessie Buss
2020
Dispatches from Elsewhere (TV Series) · as Janice
2019
2019
2018
Maniac (2018) (TV Series) · as Dr. Greta Mantleray
2017
Little Evil · as Miss Shaylock
2015
Hello, My Name Is Doris · as Doris Miller
2015
2014
2012
Lincoln · as Mary Todd Lincoln
2012
The Amazing Spider-Man · as Aunt May
2010
2008
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning · as Marina Del Ray (voice)
2006
Two Weeks · as Anita Bergman
2006
Brothers & Sisters (TV Series) · as Nora Walker
2003
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde · as Rep. Victoria Rudd
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV Series)
2002
The Court (TV Series) · as Justice Kate Nolan
2001
Say It Isn't So · as Valdine Wingfield
2000
David Copperfield · as Aunt Betsey Trotwood
2000
2000
Where the Heart Is · as Mama Lil
1999
A Cooler Climate · as Iris
1999
Independent Lens (TV Series) · as Cast
1998
From the Earth to the Moon (TV Series) · as Trudy Cooper
1997
Merry Christmas, George Bailey · as Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
1997
King of the Hill (TV Series) · as Junie Harper (voice)
1996
1996
Eye for an Eye · as Karen Mccann
1995
A Woman of Independent Means (TV Series) · as Bess Alcott Steed Garner
1994
ER (TV Series) · as Maggie Wyczenski
1994
Forrest Gump · as Mrs. Gump
1993
Mrs. Doubtfire · as Miranda Hillard
1993
1992
1991
Soapdish · as Celeste Talbert
1991
Not Without My Daughter · as Betty Mahmoody
1989
Steel Magnolias · as M'lynn Eatenton
1988
Murphy Brown (TV Series) · as Secretary #91, Kathleen Dubek
1988
Punchline · as Lilah Krytsick
1987
Surrender · as Daisy Morgan
1985
Murphy's Romance · as Emma Moriarty
1984
Places in the Heart · as Edna Spalding
1982
Kiss Me Goodbye · as Kay
1982
1981
All the Way Home · as Mary Follet
1981
Absence of Malice · as Megan Carter
1981
Back Roads · as Amy Post
1980
1979
1979
Norma Rae · as Norma Rae
1978
Hooper · as Gwen Doyle
1978
The End · as Mary Ellen
1977
Heroes · as Carol Bell
1977
Smokey and the Bandit · as Carrie 'frog'
1976
Sybil (TV Series) · as Sybil
1976
Bridger · as Jennifer Melford
1976
Stay Hungry · as Mary Tate Farnsworth
1973
The Girl with Something Extra (TV Series) · as Sally Burton
1972
Home for the Holidays · as Christine Morgan
1971
1971
Hitched · as Roselle Bridgeman
1971
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring · as Denise "dennie" Miller
1971
1969
Night Gallery (TV Series) · as Irene Evans
1969
Bracken's World (TV Series) · as Jenny Marsh
1969
Marcus Welby, M.D. (TV Series) · as Jan Wilkins
1967
The Flying Nun (TV Series) · as Sister Bertrille
1967
The Way West · as Mercy Mcbee
1966
Occasional Wife (TV Series)
1966
Hey, Landlord (TV Series) · as Bonnie Banner
1965
Gidget (TV Series) · as Frances Elizabeth 'gidget' Lawrence
1962
Moon Pilot · as Beatnik Girl In Lineup

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