Sally Field

Sally Field

Birthdate
November 6, 1946 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Pasadena, California, USA
Known For
Acting

Details

Birthdate
November 6, 1946 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Pasadena, California, USA
Known For
Acting

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.

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Acting (117)

Remarkably Bright Creatures
2023
80 for Brady as Betty
2022
Spoiler Alert as Marilyn
2022
The Last Movie Stars as Self (4 episodes)
2022
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home as Self (archive footage)
2022
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty as Jessie Buss (10 episodes)
2020
Love Letters as Melissa Gardner
2020
Dispatches from Elsewhere as Janice (10 episodes)
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show (1 episode)
2019
National Theatre Live: All My Sons as Kate Keller
2018
Maniac as Dr. Greta Mantleray (10 episodes)
2017
Spielberg as Self
2017
Little Evil as Miss Shaylock
2016
Chelsea as Self (1 episode)
2015
Hello, My Name Is Doris as Doris Miller
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (1 episode)
2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self (1 episode)
2014
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 as Aunt May
2012
Lincoln as Mary Todd Lincoln
2012
The Amazing Spider-Man as Aunt May
2012
Finding Your Roots as Self (2 episodes)
2011
The Desert of Forbidden Art as Voice
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest (3 episodes)
2008
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning as Marina Del Ray (voice)
2008
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis as Self (1 episode)
2007
The Graham Norton Show as Self (2 episodes)
2007
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo as Self
2006
Two Weeks as Anita Bergman
2006
Brothers and Sisters as Nora Walker (109 episodes)
2004
The Tony Danza Show as Self (1 episode)
2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self (1 episode)
2003
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde as Rep. Victoria Rudd
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (1 episode)
2002
The Court as Justice Kate Nolan (6 episodes)
2001
David Copperfield as Aunt Betsey Trotwood
2001
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice" as Self
2001
Say It Isn't So as Valdine Wingfield
2000
Where the Heart Is as Mama Lil
1999
A Cooler Climate as Iris
1998
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies as Self - Host (4 episodes)
1998
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies as Self / Host
1998
From the Earth to the Moon as Trudy Cooper (1 episode)
1997
Merry Christmas, George Bailey! as Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
1997
The View as Self (3 episodes)
1997
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man as Self
1997
King of the Hill as Junie Harper (voice) (1 episode)
1996
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels as Self (archive footage)
1996
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful as Self
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 as Bess Alcott Steed Garner (3 episodes)
1994
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump as Self
1994
ER as Maggie Wyczenski (11 episodes)
1994
Inside the Actors Studio as Self (1 episode)
1994
Forrest Gump as Mrs. Gump
1994
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! as Self (archive footage)
1994
A Century of Cinema as Self
1993
Mrs. Doubtfire as Miranda Hillard
1993
Intimate Portrait as Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
1993
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey as Sassy (voice)
1992
The Larry Sanders Show as Sally Field (1 episode)
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (3 episodes)
1991
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire as Self - Hostess
1991
Soapdish as Celeste Talbert
1991
Voices That Care as Self - Choir Member
1991
Not Without My Daughter as Betty Mahmoody
1989
Steel Magnolias as M'Lynn Eatenton
1988
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self
1988
Punchline as Lilah Krytsick
1987
Surrender as Daisy Morgan
1986
Barbra Streisand: One Voice as Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)
1985
Murphy's Romance as Emma Moriarty
1984
Places in the Heart as Edna Spalding
1982
Kiss Me Goodbye as Kay
1982
Lily for President? as Beth Barber
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
Mickey's 50 as Self
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 as Sybil (2 episodes)
1976
Sybil as Sybil
1976
Bridger as Jennifer Melford
1976
Stay Hungry as Mary Tate Farnsworth
1975
Saturday Night Live as Self - Host (1 episode)
1974
Home for the Holidays as Christine Morgan
1973
The Girl with Something Extra as Sally Burton (22 episodes)
1973
The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self (1 episode)
1971
Mongo's Back in Town as Vikki
1971
Marriage: Year One as Jane Duden
1971
Hitched as Roselle Bridgeman
1971
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring as Denise "Dennie" Miller
1971
Great Performances as Self (1 episode)
1971
Alias Smith and Jones (2 episodes)
1970
Night Gallery as Irene Evans (1 episode)
1968
The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest (1 episode)
1967
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self (1 episode)
1967
The Flying Nun as Sister Bertrille (82 episodes)
1967
The Way West as Mercy McBee
1966
Hollywood Squares as Self (5 episodes)
1966
Occasional Wife (1 episode)
1965
Gidget as Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence (32 episodes)
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self (1 episode)
1961
The Mike Douglas Show as Self (1 episode)
1956
Tony Awards as Self - Nominee (1 episode)
1956
Tony Awards as Self - Presenter (1 episode)
1954
The Wonderful World of Disney as Self (1 episode)
1953
The Oscars as Self - Presenter (2 episodes)
1949
The Emmy Awards as Self - Presenter (1 episode)
1944
Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee (1 episode)

Directing (3)

2000
Beautiful • Director
• Director
1998
From the Earth to the Moon • Director (1 episode)
• Director (1 episode)
1996
The Christmas Tree • Director
• Director

Production (3)

1996
The Christmas Tree • Executive Producer
• Executive Producer
1995
A Woman of Independent Means • Executive Producer (3 episodes)
• Executive Producer (3 episodes)
1991
Dying Young • Producer
• Producer

Writing (1)

1996
The Christmas Tree • Teleplay
• Teleplay

Crew (1)

1997
Eye of God • Thanks
• Thanks