Sally Field
Acting
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.
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Filmography of
Sally Field
Betty
... 2023
Marilyn
... 2022
Melissa Gardner
... 2020
Kate Keller
... 2019
Self
... 2017
Miss Shaylock
... 2017
Doris Miller
... 2015
Aunt May
... 2014
Mary Todd Lincoln
... 2012
... 2012
Aunt May
... 2012
... 2011
Marina Del Ray (voice)
... 2008
Anita Bergman
... 2006
Victoria Rudd
... 2003
Betsey Trotwood
... 2001
... 2001
Valdine Wingfield
... 2001
Mama Lil
... 2000
Iris
... 1999
... 1998
Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
... 1997
... 1997
Self (archive footage)
... 1996
... 1996
Sassy (voice)
... 1996
Karen McCann
... 1996
... 1994
Mrs. Gump
... 1994
Self (archive footage)
... 1994
Self
... 1994
Miranda Hillard
... 1993
Sassy (voice)
... 1993
Self - Hostess
... 1991
Celeste Talbert
... 1991
Self - Choir Member
... 1991
Betty Mahmoody
... 1991
M'Lynn Eatenton
... 1989
... 1989
Lilah Krytsick
... 1988
Daisy Morgan
... 1987
... 1987
Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)
... 1986
Emma Moriarty
... 1985
Edna Spalding
... 1984
Kay
... 1982
Beth Barber
... 1982
Mary Follet
... 1981
Megan Carter
... 1981
Amy Post
... 1981
Carrie
... 1980
Celeste Whitman
... 1979
Norma Rae
... 1979
Self
... 1978
Gwen Doyle
... 1978
Mary Ellen
... 1978
Herself
... 1978
Carol Bell
... 1977
Carrie 'Frog'
... 1977
Jennifer Melford
... 1976
Mary Tate Farnsworth
... 1976
Christine Morgan
... 1974
Roselle Bridgeman
... 1973
Vikki
... 1971
Jane Duden
... 1971
Denise "Dennie" Miller
... 1971
Mercy McBee
... 1967
Beatnik Girl in Lineup (uncredited)
... 1962