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.
Known For
Credits
- 2023 · 80 for Brady as Betty
- 2022 · Spoiler Alert as Marilyn
- 2022 · The Last Movie Stars as Self
- 2022 · Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty as Jessie Buss
- 2020 · Love Letters as Melissa Gardner
- 2020 · Dispatches from Elsewhere as Janice
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as
- 2019 · National Theatre Live: All My Sons as Kate Keller
- 2018 · Maniac as Dr. Greta Mantleray
- 2017 · Spielberg as Self
- 2017 · Little Evil as Miss Shaylock
- 2016 · Chelsea as Self
- 2015 · Hello, My Name Is Doris as Doris Miller
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as
- 2015 · The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self - Guest
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · The Amazing Spider-Man 2 as Aunt May
- 2012 · Lincoln as Mary Todd Lincoln
- 2012 · The Amazing Spider-Man as Aunt May
- 2012 · Finding Your Roots as Self
- 2011 · The Desert of Forbidden Art as Voice
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 2008 · The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning as Marina Del Ray (voice)
- 2008 · Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis as Self
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2007 · The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo as Self
- 2006 · Two Weeks as Anita Bergman
- 2006 · Brothers and Sisters as Nora Walker
- 2004 · The Tony Danza Show as Self
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- 2003 · Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde as Rep. Victoria Rudd
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as
- 2002 · The Court as Justice Kate Nolan
- 2001 · David Copperfield as Aunt Betsey Trotwood
- 2001 · The Story Behind "Absence of Malice" as Self
- 2001 · Say It Isn't So as Valdine Wingfield
- 2000 · Where the Heart Is as Mama Lil
- 1999 · A Cooler Climate as Iris
- 1998 · AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies as Self - Host
- 1998 · AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies as Self / Host
- 1998 · From the Earth to the Moon as Trudy Cooper
- 1997 · Merry Christmas, George Bailey! as Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1997 · Lee Strasberg: The Method Man as Self
- 1997 · King of the Hill as Junie Harper (voice)
- 1996 · Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels as Self (archive footage)
- 1996 · The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful as Self
- 1996 · Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco as Sassy (voice)
- 1996 · Eye for an Eye as Karen McCann
- 1995 · A Woman of Independent Means as Bess Alcott Steed Garner
- 1994 · Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump as Self
- 1994 · ER as Maggie Wyczenski
- 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1994 · Forrest Gump as Mrs. Gump
- 1994 · Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! as Self (archive footage)
- 1994 · A Century of Cinema as Self
- 1993 · Mrs. Doubtfire as Miranda Hillard
- 1993 · Intimate Portrait as Self (archive footage)
- 1993 · Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey as Sassy (voice)
- 1992 · The Larry Sanders Show as Sally Field
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as
- 1991 · Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire as Self - Hostess
- 1991 · Soapdish as Celeste Talbert
- 1991 · Voices That Care as Self - Choir Member
- 1991 · Not Without My Daughter as Betty Mahmoody
- 1989 · Steel Magnolias as M'Lynn Eatenton
- 1988 · James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self
- 1988 · Punchline as Lilah Krytsick
- 1987 · Surrender as Daisy Morgan
- 1986 · Barbra Streisand: One Voice as Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)
- 1985 · Murphy's Romance as Emma Moriarty
- 1984 · Places in the Heart as Edna Spalding
- 1982 · Kiss Me Goodbye as Kay
- 1982 · Lily for President? as Beth Barber
- 1981 · All the Way Home as Mary Follet
- 1981 · Absence of Malice as Megan Carter
- 1981 · Back Roads as Amy Post
- 1980 · Smokey and the Bandit II as Carrie
- 1979 · Beyond the Poseidon Adventure as Celeste Whitman
- 1979 · Norma Rae as Norma Rae
- 1978 · Mickey's 50 as Self
- 1978 · Hooper as Gwen Doyle
- 1978 · The End as Mary Ellen
- 1977 · Heroes as Carol Bell
- 1977 · Smokey and the Bandit as Carrie 'Frog'
- 1976 · Sybil as Sybil
- 1976 · Sybil as Sybil
- 1976 · Bridger as Jennifer Melford
- 1976 · Stay Hungry as Mary Tate Farnsworth
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 1974 · Home for the Holidays as Christine Morgan
- 1973 · The Girl with Something Extra as Sally Burton
- 1973 · The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
- 1971 · Mongo's Back in Town as Vikki
- 1971 · Marriage: Year One as Jane Duden
- 1971 · Hitched as Roselle Bridgeman
- 1971 · Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring as Denise "Dennie" Miller
- 1971 · Great Performances as Self
- 1971 · Alias Smith and Jones as
- 1970 · Night Gallery as Irene Evans
- 1968 · The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- 1967 · Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self
- 1967 · The Flying Nun as Sister Bertrille
- 1967 · The Way West as Mercy McBee
- 1966 · Hollywood Squares as Self
- 1966 · Occasional Wife as
- 1965 · Gidget as Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1954 · The Wonderful World of Disney as Self
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self - Presenter
- 1949 · The Emmy Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter/Winner
- Future · Remarkably Bright Creatures as