Sally Field
Acting
- Born:
- 1946-11-06
- Place of birth:
- Pasadena, California, USA
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.
Known For
Filmography
Dolly Parton: An American Original – Special Edition of 20/20
Marty, Life Is Short
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Talking Pictures: A Movie Memories Podcast
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
80 for Brady
Spoiler Alert
The Last Movie Stars
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
I Am Burt Reynolds
Love Letters
Dispatches from Elsewhere
The Kelly Clarkson Show
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
Maniac
Spielberg
Little Evil
Chelsea
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
Hello, My Name Is Doris
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Lincoln
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
The Amazing Spider-Man
Finding Your Roots
The Desert of Forbidden Art
Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
Brothers & Sisters: Family Album
The Graham Norton Show
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Two Weeks
Brothers and Sisters
The Tony Danza Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Court
David Copperfield
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
Say It Isn't So
David Copperfield
Where the Heart Is
Saturday Night Live: Christmas
A Cooler Climate
The Directors
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
From the Earth to the Moon
Merry Christmas, George Bailey
The View
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
King of the Hill
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
Eye for an Eye
A Woman of Independent Means
ER
Inside the Actors Studio
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
A Century of Cinema
Mrs. Doubtfire
Intimate Portrait
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
The Larry Sanders Show
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Soapdish
Voices That Care
Not Without My Daughter
Steel Magnolias
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Punchline
Surrender
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Murphy's Romance
Places in the Heart
Kiss Me Goodbye
Lily for President?
All the Way Home
Absence of Malice
Back Roads
Smokey and the Bandit II
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
Norma Rae
Mickey's 50
Hooper
The End
Ciné regards
The Greatest Stuntman Alive
Heroes
Smokey and the Bandit
Sybil
Bridger
Stay Hungry
Saturday Night Live
Home for the Holidays
The Girl with Something Extra
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Hitched
Mongo's Back in Town
Film '72
Marriage: Year One
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
Great Performances
Alias Smith and Jones
Night Gallery
The Dick Cavett Show
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
The Flying Nun
The Way West
Hollywood Squares
Occasional Wife
The Dating Game
Gidget
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Merv Griffin Show
Moon Pilot
The Mike Douglas Show
Tony Awards
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Oscars
The Emmy Awards
Golden Globe Awards