Sally Field

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

Mrs. Gump

Forrest Gump

Marilyn

Spoiler Alert

Betty

80 for Brady

Miranda Hillard

Mrs. Doubtfire

Victoria Rudd

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

M'Lynn Eatenton

Steel Magnolias

Mary Tate Farnsworth

Stay Hungry

Valdine Wingfield

Say It Isn't So

Carrie 'Frog'

Smokey and the Bandit

Sassy (voice)

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

Christine Morgan

Home for the Holidays

Celeste Whitman

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

Sassy (voice)

Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco

Celeste Talbert

Soapdish

Betty Mahmoody

Not Without My Daughter

Carrie

Smokey and the Bandit II

Emma Moriarty

Murphy's Romance

Marina Del Ray (voice)

The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning

Edna Spalding

Places in the Heart

Lilah Krytsick

Punchline

Norma Rae

Norma Rae

Mary Ellen

The End

Mercy McBee

The Way West

Amy Post

Back Roads

Gwen Doyle

Hooper

Self - Choir Member

Voices That Care

Anita Bergman

Two Weeks

Karen McCann

Eye for an Eye

Self

Lee Strasberg: The Method Man

Megan Carter

Absence of Malice

Kay

Kiss Me Goodbye

Mary Todd Lincoln

Lincoln

Carol Bell

Heroes

Beth Barber

Lily for President?

Self (archive footage)

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

Voice

The Desert of Forbidden Art

Aunt May

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Betsey Trotwood

David Copperfield

Daisy Morgan

Surrender

Iris

A Cooler Climate

Self / Host

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

Vikki

Mongo's Back in Town

Denise "Dennie" Miller

Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring

Roselle Bridgeman

Hitched

Self

Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump

Aunt May

The Amazing Spider-Man

Mama Lil

Where the Heart Is

Mrs. Bailey / Narrator

Merry Christmas, George Bailey!

Doris Miller

Hello, My Name Is Doris

Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)

Barbra Streisand: One Voice

Mary Follet

All the Way Home

Jane Duden

Marriage: Year One

Tova

Remarkably Bright Creatures

Self - Hostess

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

Miss Shaylock

Little Evil

Self

Spielberg

Self

The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful

Kate Keller

National Theatre Live: All My Sons

Self

The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"

Self

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Self

Mickey's 50

Self

A Century of Cinema

Jennifer Melford

Bridger

Melissa Gardner

Love Letters

Self

The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo

Self (archive footage)

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

Herself

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

Self

Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn

Beatnik Girl in Lineup (uncredited)

Moon Pilot

Herself

The Greatest Stuntman Alive

Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story

Sybil Dorsett

Sybil

Self/Nora Walker

Brothers & Sisters: Family Album