Sally Field
Age: N/A | From: Pasadena, California, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Sally Margaret Field
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Pasadena, California, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 46
TV Involvements: 18
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
ER
(1994) Maggie Wyczenski
Brothers and Sisters
(2006) Nora Walker
Intimate Portrait
(1993) Self (archive footage)
Night Gallery
(1970) Irene Evans
The Amazing Spider-Man
(2012) Aunt May
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
(2014) Aunt May
Finding Your Roots
(2012) Self
From the Earth to the Moon
(1998) Trudy CooperActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Betty | |
| 2022 | Marilyn | |
| Self | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| Jessie Buss | ||
| 2020 | Melissa Gardner | |
| Janice | ||
| 2019 | N/A | |
| Kate Keller | ||
| 2018 | Dr. Greta Mantleray | |
| 2017 | Self | |
| Miss Shaylock | ||
| 2016 | Self | |
| 2015 | Doris Miller | |
| N/A | ||
| Self - Guest | ||
| 2014 | Self | |
| Aunt May | ||
| 2012 | Mary Todd Lincoln | |
| Aunt May | ||
| Self | ||
| 2011 | Voice | |
| 2009 | Self - Guest | |
| 2008 | Marina Del Ray (voice) | |
| Self | ||
| 2007 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| 2006 | Anita Bergman | |
| Nora Walker | ||
| 2004 | Self | |
| 2003 | Self | |
| Rep. Victoria Rudd | ||
| N/A | ||
| 2002 | Justice Kate Nolan | |
| 2001 | Aunt Betsey Trotwood | |
| Self | ||
| Valdine Wingfield | ||
| 2000 | Mama Lil | |
| 1999 | Iris | |
| 1998 | Self - Host | |
| Self / Host | ||
| Trudy Cooper | ||
| 1997 | Mrs. Bailey / Narrator | |
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Junie Harper (voice) | ||
| 1996 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Self | ||
| Sassy (voice) | ||
| Karen McCann | ||
| 1995 | Bess Alcott Steed Garner | |
| 1994 | Self | |
| Maggie Wyczenski | ||
| Self | ||
| Mrs. Gump | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| Self | ||
| 1993 | Miranda Hillard | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| Sassy (voice) | ||
| 1992 | Sally Field | |
| N/A | ||
| 1991 | Self - Hostess | |
| Celeste Talbert | ||
| Self - Choir Member | ||
| Betty Mahmoody | ||
| 1989 | M'Lynn Eatenton | |
| 1988 | Self | |
| Lilah Krytsick | ||
| 1987 | Daisy Morgan | |
| 1986 | Self - Audience Member (Uncredited) | |
| 1985 | Emma Moriarty | |
| 1984 | Edna Spalding | |
| 1982 | Kay | |
| Beth Barber | ||
| 1981 | Mary Follet | |
| Megan Carter | ||
| Amy Post | ||
| 1980 | Carrie | |
| 1979 | Celeste Whitman | |
| Norma Rae | ||
| 1978 | Self | |
| Gwen Doyle | ||
| Mary Ellen | ||
| 1977 | Carol Bell | |
| Carrie 'Frog' | ||
| 1976 | Sybil | |
| Sybil | ||
| Jennifer Melford | ||
| Mary Tate Farnsworth | ||
| 1975 | Self - Host | |
| 1974 | Christine Morgan | |
| 1973 | Sally Burton | |
| Self | ||
| 1971 | Vikki | |
| Jane Duden | ||
| Roselle Bridgeman | ||
| Denise "Dennie" Miller | ||
| Self | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1970 | Irene Evans | |
| 1968 | Self - Guest | |
| 1967 | Self | |
| Sister Bertrille | ||
| Mercy McBee | ||
| 1966 | Self | |
| N/A | ||
| 1965 | Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence | |
| 1962 | Self | |
| 1961 | Self | |
| 1954 | Self | |
| 1953 | Self - Presenter | |
| 1949 | Self - Presenter | |
| N/A | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Director | |
| 1998 | Director | |
| 1996 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Crew
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Thanks | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Teleplay | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Executive Producer | |
| 1995 | Executive Producer | |
| 1991 | Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
