Sally Field
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 6, 1946 (age 80)
- Birthplace
- 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.
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Filmography
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Movie · as Tova Sullivan
Marty, Life Is Short
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Dolly Parton: An American Original – Special Edition of 20/20
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Talking Pictures: A Movie Memories Podcast
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
TV · as Self · 1 ep
80 for Brady
Movie · as Betty
Spoiler Alert
Movie · as Marilyn
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
TV · as Jessie Buss · 10 eps
The Last Movie Stars
TV · as Self · 4 eps
Love Letters
Movie · as Melissa Gardner
I Am Burt Reynolds
Movie · as Self (archive)
Dispatches from Elsewhere
TV · as Janice · 10 eps
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
Movie · as Kate Keller
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Maniac
TV · as Dr. Greta Mantleray · 10 eps
Little Evil
Movie · as Miss Shaylock
Spielberg
Movie · as Self
Chelsea
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Hello, My Name Is Doris
Movie · as Doris Miller
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
Movie · as Self (Archive)
The Late Late Show with James Corden
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Movie · as Aunt May
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Lincoln
Movie · as Mary Todd Lincoln
The Amazing Spider-Man
Movie · as Aunt May
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
Movie · as Self
Finding Your Roots
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Desert of Forbidden Art
Movie · as Voice
Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story
Movie
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV · as Self - Guest · 4 eps
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
Movie · as Marina Del Ray (voice)
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Movie · as Self
Brothers & Sisters: Family Album
Movie · as Self/Nora Walker
The Graham Norton Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Two Weeks
Movie · as Anita Bergman
Brothers and Sisters
TV · as Nora Walker · 109 eps
The Tony Danza Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Movie · as Victoria Rudd
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Court
TV · as Justice Kate Nolan · 6 eps
Say It Isn't So
Movie · as Valdine Wingfield
David Copperfield
Movie · as Betsey Trotwood
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
Movie · as Self
Where the Heart Is
Movie · as Mama Lil
David Copperfield
TV · as Betsey Trotwood · 2 eps
A Cooler Climate
Movie · as Iris
Saturday Night Live: Christmas
Movie · as Mom (archive footage)
The Directors
TV · as Self · 1 ep
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
Movie · as Self / Host
From the Earth to the Moon
TV · as Trudy Cooper · 1 ep
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
TV · as Self - Host · 3 eps
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
Movie · as Self
Merry Christmas, George Bailey
Movie · as Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
King of the Hill
TV · as Junie Harper (voice) · 1 ep
The View
TV · as Self - Guest · 3 eps
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
Movie · as Sassy (voice)
Eye for an Eye
Movie · as Karen McCann
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Movie · as Self
A Woman of Independent Means
TV · as Bess Alcott Steed Garner · 3 eps
Forrest Gump
Movie · as Mrs. Gump
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Movie · as Self
A Century of Cinema
Movie · as Self
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Inside the Actors Studio
TV · as Self · 1 ep
ER
TV · as Maggie Wyczenski · 11 eps
Mrs. Doubtfire
Movie · as Miranda Hillard
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Movie · as Sassy (voice)
Intimate Portrait
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV · 3 eps
The Larry Sanders Show
TV · as Sally Field · 1 ep
Soapdish
Movie · as Celeste Talbert
Not Without My Daughter
Movie · as Betty Mahmoody
Voices That Care
Movie · as Self - Choir Member
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Movie · as Self - Hostess
Steel Magnolias
Movie · as M'Lynn Eatenton
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Movie · as Self (voice)
Punchline
Movie · as Lilah Krytsick
Surrender
Movie · as Daisy Morgan
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Movie · as Self
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Movie · as Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)
Murphy's Romance
Movie · as Emma Moriarty
Places in the Heart
Movie · as Edna Spalding
Kiss Me Goodbye
Movie · as Kay
Lily for President?
Movie · as Beth Barber
Back Roads
Movie · as Amy Post
Absence of Malice
Movie · as Megan Carter
All the Way Home
Movie · as Mary Follet
Smokey and the Bandit II
Movie · as Carrie
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
Movie · as Celeste Whitman
Norma Rae
Movie · as Norma Rae
The End
Movie · as Mary Ellen
Hooper
Movie · as Gwen Doyle
Mickey's 50
Movie · as Self
The Greatest Stuntman Alive
Movie · as Herself
Ciné regards
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Smokey and the Bandit
Movie · as Carrie
Heroes
Movie · as Carol Bell
Stay Hungry
Movie · as Mary Tate Farnsworth
Bridger
Movie · as Jennifer Melford
Sybil
TV · as Sybil · 2 eps
Saturday Night Live
TV · as Self - Host · 1 ep
Home for the Holidays
Movie · as Christine Morgan
Hitched
Movie · as Roselle Bridgeman
The Girl with Something Extra
TV · as Sally Burton · 22 eps
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Mongo's Back in Town
Movie · as Vikki
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
Movie · as Denise "Dennie" Miller
Marriage: Year One
Movie · as Jane Duden
Alias Smith and Jones
TV · 2 eps
Great Performances
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Film '72
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Night Gallery
TV · as Irene Evans · 1 ep
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Dick Cavett Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
The Way West
Movie · as Mercy McBee
The Flying Nun
TV · as Sister Bertrille · 82 eps
Occasional Wife
TV · 1 ep
Hollywood Squares
TV · as Self · 5 eps
Gidget
TV · as Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence · 32 eps
The Dating Game
TV · as Sally Field · 1 ep
Moon Pilot
Movie · as Beatnik Girl in Lineup (uncredited)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Merv Griffin Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Tony Awards
TV · as Self - Presenter, Self - Nominee · 1 ep
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Emmy Awards
TV · as Self - Presenter · 1 ep
Golden Globe Awards
TV · as Self - Nominee, Self - Self - Winner · 4 eps