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Sissy Spacek
Actor, Additional Credits
Born December 25, 1949 (74 years)
Mary Elizabeth 'Sissy' Spacek (born December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for four British Academy Film Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. Spacek was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011.
Born and raised in Texas, she initially aspired to a career as a recording artist. In 1968, at age 18, she recorded a single, "John, You Went Too Far This Time," under the name Rainbo. She began her professional acting career in the early 1970s, making her debut as an extra in Andy Warhol's Women in Revolt (1971). Her breakout role came with Terrence Malick's influential crime film Badlands (1973), which earned her a nomination for the British Academy Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles. She rose to international prominence with her portrayal of Carrie White in Brian De Palma's horror film Carrie (1976), for which she received her first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. After appearing in the acclaimed films Welcome to L.A. (1976) and Robert Altman's 3 Women (1977), she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn in the biographical musical film Coal Miner's Daughter (1980).
Her other Oscar-nominated roles include Missing (1982), The River (1984), Crimes of the Heart (1986), and In the Bedroom (2001). Her other prominent films include Raggedy Man (1981), JFK (1991), Affliction (1997), The Straight Story (1999), Tuck Everlasting (2002), Nine Lives (2005), North Country (2005), Four Christmases (2008), Get Low (2010), The Help (2011), and The Old Man & the Gun (2018). She received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the television films The Good Old Boys (1995) and Last Call (2002), and for her guest role on the HBO drama series Big Love (2011). She portrayed matriarch Sally Rayburn on the Netflix drama thriller series Bloodline (2015–2017), Ruth Deaver on the Hulu psychological horror series Castle Rock (2018), and Ellen Bergman on the Amazon Prime Video psychological thriller series Homecoming (2018).
She has also ventured into music, and recorded vocals for the soundtrack album of Coal Miner's Daughter, which peaked at number two on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart and garnered her a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. She released a studio album, Hangin' Up My Heart (1983), which was critically well-received and peaked at number 17 on Billboard Top Country Albums chart.
Born and raised in Texas, she initially aspired to a career as a recording artist. In 1968, at age 18, she recorded a single, "John, You Went Too Far This Time," under the name Rainbo. She began her professional acting career in the early 1970s, making her debut as an extra in Andy Warhol's Women in Revolt (1971). Her breakout role came with Terrence Malick's influential crime film Badlands (1973), which earned her a nomination for the British Academy Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles. She rose to international prominence with her portrayal of Carrie White in Brian De Palma's horror film Carrie (1976), for which she received her first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. After appearing in the acclaimed films Welcome to L.A. (1976) and Robert Altman's 3 Women (1977), she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn in the biographical musical film Coal Miner's Daughter (1980).
Her other Oscar-nominated roles include Missing (1982), The River (1984), Crimes of the Heart (1986), and In the Bedroom (2001). Her other prominent films include Raggedy Man (1981), JFK (1991), Affliction (1997), The Straight Story (1999), Tuck Everlasting (2002), Nine Lives (2005), North Country (2005), Four Christmases (2008), Get Low (2010), The Help (2011), and The Old Man & the Gun (2018). She received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the television films The Good Old Boys (1995) and Last Call (2002), and for her guest role on the HBO drama series Big Love (2011). She portrayed matriarch Sally Rayburn on the Netflix drama thriller series Bloodline (2015–2017), Ruth Deaver on the Hulu psychological horror series Castle Rock (2018), and Ellen Bergman on the Amazon Prime Video psychological thriller series Homecoming (2018).
She has also ventured into music, and recorded vocals for the soundtrack album of Coal Miner's Daughter, which peaked at number two on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart and garnered her a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. She released a studio album, Hangin' Up My Heart (1983), which was critically well-received and peaked at number 17 on Billboard Top Country Albums chart.
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Filmography
| 2022 | Sam & Kate · as Tina |
| 2022 | Night Sky (TV Series) · as Irene York |
| 2021 | Without Getting Killed or Caught · as Narrator / Voice Of Susanna Clark (voice) |
| 2020 | Stephen King: A Necessary Evil · as Carrie White |
| 2018 | Homecoming (2018) (TV Series) · as Ellen Bergman |
| 2018 | The Old Man & the Gun · as Jewel |
| 2018 | Castle Rock (TV Series) · as Ruth Deaver |
| 2016 | River of Gold · as Narrator |
| 2015 | Bloodline (TV Series) · as Sally Rayburn |
| 2012 | Deadfall · as June |
| 2011 | A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King · as Carrie White |
| 2011 | The Help · as Missus Walters |
| 2009 | Get Low · as Mattie Darrow |
| 2008 | Four Christmases · as Paula |
| 2008 | Lake City · as Maggie |
| 2007 | Pictures of Hollis Woods · as Josie Cahill |
| 2007 | Hot Rod · as Marie Powell |
| 2006 | Gray Matters · as Dr. Sydney |
| 2006 | Big Love (TV Series) · as Marilyn Densham |
| 2005 | North Country · as Alice Aimes |
| 2005 | Nine Lives · as Ruth |
| 2005 | An American Haunting · as Lucy Bell |
| 2005 | The Ring Two · as Evelyn |
| 2004 | A Home at the End of the World · as Alice Glover |
| 2002 | Tuck Everlasting · as Mae Tuck |
| 2002 | |
| 2001 | In the Bedroom · as Ruth Fowler |
| 2001 | Midwives · as Sibyl Danforth |
| 2000 | Songs in Ordinary Time · as Marie Fermoyle |
| 1999 | The Straight Story · as Rose |
| 1999 | The Rage: Carrie 2 · as Carrie White (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 1999 | Blast from the Past · as Helen |
| 1997 | Affliction · as Margie Fogg |
| 1996 | If These Walls Could Talk · as Barbara Barrows |
| 1996 | Beyond the Call · as Pam O'brien |
| 1995 | Streets of Laredo (TV Series) · as Lorena |
| 1995 | The Grass Harp · as Verena Talbo |
| 1995 | Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain · as Martha Jefferson |
| 1995 | The Good Old Boys · as Spring Renfro |
| 1994 | Trading Mom · as Mommy / Mama / Mom / Natasha |
| 1994 | A Place for Annie · as Susan Lansing |
| 1992 | A Private Matter · as Sherri Finkbine |
| 1992 | Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories (TV Series) · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1991 | JFK · as Liz Garrison |
| 1991 | Hard Promises · as Christine Ann Coalter |
| 1991 | The Talking Eggs · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1990 | The Long Walk Home · as Miriam Thompson |
| 1986 | Crimes of the Heart · as Babe Magrath |
| 1986 | 'night, Mother · as Jessie Cates |
| 1986 | Violets Are Blue... · as Augusta "gussie" Sawyer |
| 1985 | American Masters (TV Series) · as Loretta Lynn |
| 1985 | Marie · as Marie Ragghianti |
| 1984 | The River · as Mae Garvey |
| 1983 | The Man with Two Brains · as Anne Uumellmahaye (uncredited) (voice) |
| 1982 | Missing · as Beth Horman |
| 1981 | Raggedy Man · as Nita |
| 1980 | Heart Beat · as Carolyn Cassady |
| 1980 | Coal Miner's Daughter · as Loretta Lynn |
| 1977 | 3 Women · as Mildred "pinky" Rose |
| 1976 | Carrie · as Carrie |
| 1976 | Welcome to L.A. · as Linda Murray |
| 1975 | Katherine · as Katherine Alman |
| 1974 | The Migrants · as Wanda Trimpin |
| 1974 | Ginger in the Morning · as Ginger Brown |
| 1973 | Badlands · as Holly Sargis |
| 1973 | The Girls of Huntington House · as Sara |
| 1972 | The Waltons (TV Series) |
| 1972 | Prime Cut · as Poppy |
| 1972 | The Rookies (TV Series) |
| 1971 | Great Performances (TV Series) · as Verna Vane |
| 1969 | Love, American Style (TV Series) · as Terri (segment "love And The Old Lover") |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall Of Fame (TV Series) · as Susan Lansing |