Sally Field
- Acting
- November 6, 1946 · 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 · Self
- Marty, Life Is Short · Self
- Remarkably Bright Creatures · Tova Sullivan
- Talking Pictures: A Movie Memories Podcast · Self
- Variety & CNN Actors on Actors · Self
- 80 for Brady · Betty
- Spoiler Alert · Marilyn
- The Last Movie Stars · Self
- Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home · Self
- Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty · Jessie Buss
- I Am Burt Reynolds · Self
- Love Letters · Melissa Gardner
- Dispatches from Elsewhere · Janice
- The Kelly Clarkson Show · Self
- National Theatre Live: All My Sons · Kate Keller
- Maniac · Dr. Greta Mantleray
- Spielberg · Self
- Little Evil · Miss Shaylock
- Chelsea · Self
- Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire · Self
- Hello, My Name Is Doris · Doris Miller
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · Self
- The Late Late Show with James Corden · Self
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors · Self
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 · Aunt May
- Lincoln · Mary Todd Lincoln
- Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn · Self
- The Amazing Spider-Man · Aunt May
- Finding Your Roots · Self
- The Desert of Forbidden Art · Voice
- Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen · Self
- The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning · Marina Del Ray (Voice)
- Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis · Self
- Brothers & Sisters: Family Album · Self/Nora Walker
- The Graham Norton Show · Self
- The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo · Self
- Two Weeks · Anita Bergman
- Brothers and Sisters · Nora Walker, Executive producer
- The Tony Danza Show · Self
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show · Self
- Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde · Victoria Rudd
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! · Self
- The Court · Justice Kate Nolan
- David Copperfield · Betsey Trotwood
- The Story Behind "Absence of Malice" · Self
- Say It Isn't So · Valdine Wingfield
- David Copperfield · Betsey Trotwood
- Beautiful · Director
- Where the Heart Is · Mama Lil
- Saturday Night Live: Christmas · Mom (archive footage)
- A Cooler Climate · Iris
- The Directors · Self
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies · Self
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies · Self / Host
- From the Earth to the Moon · Trudy Cooper, Director
- Merry Christmas, George Bailey · Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
- Eye of God · Thanks
- The View · Self
- Lee Strasberg: The Method Man · Self
- King of the Hill · Junie Harper (Voice)
- The Christmas Tree · Director, Teleplay
- Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels · Self
- The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful · Self
- Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco · Sassy (Voice)
- Eye for an Eye · Karen McCann
- A Woman of Independent Means · Bess Alcott Steed Garner, Executive producer
- ER · Maggie Wyczenski
- Inside the Actors Studio · Self
- Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump · Self
- Forrest Gump · Mrs. Gump
- Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! · Self
- A Century of Cinema · Self
- Mrs. Doubtfire · Miranda Hillard
- Intimate Portrait · Self
- Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey · Sassy (Voice)
- The Larry Sanders Show · Sally Field
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire · Self
- Dying Young · Producer