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.
Filmography
all 128
Movies 77
TV Shows 51
self 49
Voice 4
Director 3
Producer 2
Spoiler Alert (2022)
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home (2022)
Love Letters (2020)
Maniac (2018)
Little Evil (2017)
Chelsea (2016)
The Late Late Show with James Corden (2015)
Lincoln (2012)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009)
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning (2008)
Two Weeks (2006)
Brothers and Sisters (2006)
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)
The Court (2002)
David Copperfield (2001)
Say It Isn't So (2001)
Beautiful (2000)
Where the Heart Is (2000)
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (1998)
From the Earth to the Moon (1998)
Merry Christmas, George Bailey! (1997)
Eye of God (1997)
King of the Hill (1997)
The Christmas Tree (1996)
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels (1996)
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996)
Eye for an Eye (1996)
A Woman of Independent Means (1995)
ER (1994)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! (1994)
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
Intimate Portrait (1993)
The Larry Sanders Show (1992)
Dying Young (1991)
Soapdish (1991)
Voices That Care (1991)
Not Without My Daughter (1991)
Steel Magnolias (1989)
Punchline (1988)
Surrender (1987)
Barbra Streisand: One Voice (1986)
Murphy's Romance (1985)
Places in the Heart (1984)
Lily for President? (1982)
All the Way Home (1981)
Absence of Malice (1981)
Back Roads (1981)
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
Norma Rae (1979)
Hooper (1978)
The End (1978)
Heroes (1977)
Sybil (1976)
Sybil (1976)
Bridger (1976)
Stay Hungry (1976)
Saturday Night Live (1975)
Home for the Holidays (1974)
The Girl with Something Extra (1973)
Marriage: Year One (1971)
Hitched (1971)
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring (1971)
Night Gallery (1970)
The Dick Cavett Show (1968)
The Flying Nun (1967)
The Way West (1967)
Hey Landlord! (1966)
Gidget (1965)
Tony Awards (1956)
The Oscars (1953)
The Emmy Awards (1949)
Golden Globe Awards (1944)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1946-11-06 (78 years old)
Birth NameSally Margaret Field
Birth PlacePasadena, United States
Height
ChildrenEli Craig, Peter Craig
FatherRichard Dryden Field
MotherMargaret Field
CitizenshipsUnited States
Also Known AsSally Margaret Field
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, National Medal of Arts, Kennedy Center Honors, Crystal Award, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Academy Award for Best Actress
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