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  • BIRTH 06/11/1946
  • Country United States
  • SHOWS 28
  • MOVIES 43
  • DIRECTOR 2
  • PRODUCTION 1

Sally Field

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.

Sally Field

Shows (28)

ER
ER
Maggie Wyczenski
Maniac (2018)
Maniac (2018)
Dr. Greta Mantleray
Brothers & Sisters
Brothers & Sisters
Nora Walker
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Jessie Buss
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
Dispatches from Elsewhere
Dispatches from Elsewhere
Janice
King of the Hill
King of the Hill
Junie Harper (voice)
Night Gallery
Night Gallery
Irene Evans
The Academy Awards
The Academy Awards
Self
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
Self
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee / Self - Presenter
The Graham Norton Show
The Graham Norton Show
Self
The Larry Sanders Show
The Larry Sanders Show
Sally Field
Chelsea
Chelsea
Self
From the Earth to the Moon
From the Earth to the Moon
Trudy Cooper
Inside the Actors Studio
Inside the Actors Studio
Herself
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
The Emmy Awards
The Emmy Awards
Self - Presenter
The Late Late Show with James Corden
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
The Flying Nun
The Flying Nun
Sister Bertrille
The View
The View
Self
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self
Disneyland
Disneyland
Self
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee / Self - Presenter / Nominee / Self - Presenter/Winner / Self - Winner
Finding Your Roots
Finding Your Roots
Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
The Last Movie Stars
The Last Movie Stars
Self

Movies (43)

The Amazing Spider-Man
The Amazing Spider-Man
Aunt May
Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump
Mrs. Gump
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Aunt May
Mrs. Doubtfire
Mrs. Doubtfire
Miranda Hillard
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
Marina Del Ray (voice)
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Rep. Victoria Rudd
Lincoln
Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Sassy (voice)
Eye for an Eye
Eye for an Eye
Karen McCann
Spoiler Alert
Spoiler Alert
Marilyn
Little Evil
Little Evil
Miss Shaylock
Steel Magnolias
Steel Magnolias
M'Lynn Eatenton
Where the Heart Is
Where the Heart Is
Mama Lil
Not Without My Daughter
Not Without My Daughter
Betty Mahmoody
80 for Brady
80 for Brady
Betty
Smokey and the Bandit
Smokey and the Bandit
Carrie 'Frog'
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
Sassy (voice)
Spielberg
Spielberg
Self
Say It Isn't So
Say It Isn't So
Valdine Wingfield
Hello, My Name Is Doris
Hello, My Name Is Doris
Doris Miller
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Tova
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
Celeste Whitman
Two Weeks
Two Weeks
Anita Bergman
Punchline
Punchline
Lilah Krytsick
The End
The End
Mary Ellen
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)
Hooper
Hooper
Gwen Doyle
A Century of Cinema
A Century of Cinema
Self
Home for the Holidays
Home for the Holidays
Christine Morgan
Soapdish
Soapdish
Celeste Talbert
David Copperfield
David Copperfield
Betsey Trotwood
Smokey and the Bandit II
Smokey and the Bandit II
Carrie
Moon Pilot
Moon Pilot
Beatnik Girl in Lineup (uncredited)
Stay Hungry
Stay Hungry
Mary Tate Farnsworth
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Self
Murphy's Romance
Murphy's Romance
Emma Moriarty
A Woman of Independent Means
A Woman of Independent Means
Bess Alcott Steed Garner
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man…
Self
Back Roads
Back Roads
Amy Post
Norma Rae
Norma Rae
Norma Rae
Surrender
Surrender
Daisy Morgan
Absence of Malice
Absence of Malice
Megan Carter
Places in the Heart
Places in the Heart
Edna Spalding

Director (2)

From the Earth to the Moon
From the Earth to the Moon
(1 episode)
Beautiful
Beautiful

Production

Dying Young
Dying Young