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Sally Field
Actor, Producer, Director, Additional CreditsBorn November 6, 1946 (78 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.
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.
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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 | The Kelly Clarkson Show (TV Series) |
| 2019 | National Theatre Live: All My Sons · as Kate Keller |
| 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 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (TV Series) |
| 2014 | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 · as Aunt May |
| 2012 | Lincoln · as Mary Todd Lincoln |
| 2012 | The Amazing Spider-Man · as Aunt May |
| 2010 | The Desert of Forbidden Art · as Voice |
| 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 | Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years · as Norma Rae |
| 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 | Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco · as Sassy (voice) |
| 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 | Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey · as Sassy (voice) |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series) |
| 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 | Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter · as Gwen |
| 1981 | All the Way Home · as Mary Follet |
| 1981 | Absence of Malice · as Megan Carter |
| 1981 | Back Roads · as Amy Post |
| 1980 | Smokey and the Bandit II · as Carrie |
| 1979 | Beyond the Poseidon Adventure · as Celeste Whitman |
| 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 | Mongo's Back in Town · as Vikki |
| 1971 | Hitched · as Roselle Bridgeman |
| 1971 | Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring · as Denise "dennie" Miller |
| 1971 | Alias Smith and Jones (TV Series) |
| 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 |