Sally Field

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.

80 for Brady
2023
Betty
Spoiler Alert
2022
Marilyn
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
2022
Self (archive footage)
Love Letters
2020
Melissa Gardner
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
2019
Kate Keller
Little Evil
2017
Miss Shaylock
Spielberg
2017
Self
Hello, My Name Is Doris
2015
Doris Miller
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014
Aunt May
Lincoln
2012
Mary Todd Lincoln
The Amazing Spider-Man
2012
Aunt May
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
2012
Self
The Desert of Forbidden Art
2011
Voice
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
2008
Marina Del Ray (voice)
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007
Self
Two Weeks
2006
Anita Bergman
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003
Rep. Victoria Rudd
Say It Isn't So
2001
Valdine Wingfield
David Copperfield
2001
Betsey Trotwood
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
2001
Self
Beautiful
2000
Director
Where the Heart Is
2000
Mama Lil
A Cooler Climate
1999
Iris
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
1998
Self / Host
Eye of God
1997
Thanks
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
1997
Self
Merry Christmas, George Bailey!
1997
Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
The Christmas Tree
1996
Director
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
1996
Sassy (voice)
Eye for an Eye
1996
Karen McCann
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996
Self (archive footage)
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996
Self
Forrest Gump
1994
Mrs. Gump
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
1994
Self
A Century of Cinema
1994
Self
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994
Self (archive footage)
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
Miranda Hillard
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
1993
Sassy (voice)
Dying Young
1991
Producer
Soapdish
1991
Celeste Talbert
Not Without My Daughter
1991
Betty Mahmoody
Voices That Care
1991
Self - Choir Member
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991
Self - Hostess
Steel Magnolias
1989
M'Lynn Eatenton
Punchline
1988
Lilah Krytsick
Surrender
1987
Daisy Morgan
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
Self
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986
Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)
Murphy's Romance
1985
Emma Moriarty
Places in the Heart
1984
Edna Spalding
Kiss Me Goodbye
1982
Kay
Lily for President?
1982
Beth Barber
Back Roads
1981
Amy Post
Absence of Malice
1981
Megan Carter
All the Way Home
1981
Mary Follet
Smokey and the Bandit II
1980
Carrie
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
1979
Celeste Whitman
Norma Rae
1979
Norma Rae
The End
1978
Mary Ellen
Hooper
1978
Gwen Doyle
Mickey's 50
1978
Self
Smokey and the Bandit
1977
Carrie 'Frog'
Heroes
1977
Carol Bell
Stay Hungry
1976
Mary Tate Farnsworth
Bridger
1976
Jennifer Melford
Home for the Holidays
1974
Christine Morgan
Mongo's Back in Town
1971
Vikki
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
1971
Denise "Dennie" Miller
Hitched
1971
Roselle Bridgeman
Marriage: Year One
1971
Jane Duden
The Way West
1967
Mercy McBee