
Sally Field
1 FOLLOWER • 63 CREDITS • NOV 6, 1946 • 78
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

ER

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Tony Awards

Golden Globe Awards

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Graham Norton Show

The Late Late Show with James Corden

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

The Wonderful World of Disney

Chelsea

The Emmy Awards

From the Earth to the Moon

The Larry Sanders Show

Finding Your Roots

Occasional Wife

Alias Smith and Jones

Night Gallery

The Last Movie Stars

King of the Hill

Hollywood Squares

Maniac

The Oscars

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home

Barbra Streisand: One Voice

Little Evil

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

The Amazing Spider-Man

The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning

Forrest Gump

Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump

80 for Brady

Hooper

Spoiler Alert

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

Dispatches from Elsewhere

Brothers and Sisters

Mongo's Back in Town

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

Smokey and the Bandit

Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

Lincoln

Mrs. Doubtfire

Eye for an Eye

Murphy's Romance

Not Without My Daughter

The Girl with Something Extra

Places in the Heart

Sybil

Saturday Night Live

A Cooler Climate

Absence of Malice

Soapdish

A Woman of Independent Means

Steel Magnolias
Production Credits
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