Sally Field
1 FOLLOWER • 62 CREDITS • NOV 6, 1946 • 77
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
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Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Tony Awards
The Oscars
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
Golden Globe Awards
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
Hollywood Squares
King of the Hill
Maniac
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
The Last Movie Stars
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Little Evil
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
The Amazing Spider-Man
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
80 for Brady
Forrest Gump
Hooper
Dispatches from Elsewhere
Spoiler Alert
Mrs. Doubtfire
Smokey and the Bandit
Brothers and Sisters
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Lincoln
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Mongo's Back in Town
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
A Cooler Climate
Places in the Heart
Soapdish
Sybil
Not Without My Daughter
Absence of Malice
Eye for an Eye
The Girl with Something Extra
Steel Magnolias
A Woman of Independent Means
Production Credits
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