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 (1965β1966), The Flying Nun (1967β1970), and The Girl with Something Extra (1973β1974). 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 119
Movies 71
TV Shows 48
self 44
Director 3
Narrator 1
Voice 1
Producer 1
80 for Brady (2023)
Spoiler Alert (2022)
The Last Movie Stars (2022)
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home (2022)
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (2022)
Love Letters (2020)
Dispatches from Elsewhere (2020)
The Kelly Clarkson Show (2019)
National Theatre Live: All My Sons (2019)
Maniac (2018)
Spielberg (2017)
Little Evil (2017)
Chelsea (2016)
Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)
The Late Late Show with James Corden (2015)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2014)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
Lincoln (2012)
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn (2012)
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
Finding Your Roots (2012)
The Desert of Forbidden Art (2011)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009)
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning (2008)
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis (2008)
The Graham Norton Show (2007)
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo (2007)
Brothers and Sisters (2006)
Two Weeks (2006)
The Tony Danza Show (2004)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003)
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003)
The Court (2002)
David Copperfield (2001)
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice" (2001)
Say It Isn't So (2001)
Beautiful (2000)
Where the Heart Is (2000)
A Cooler Climate (1999)
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (1998)
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies (1998)
From the Earth to the Moon (1998)
Merry Christmas, George Bailey! (1997)
The View (1997)
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man (1997)
King of the Hill (1997)
The Christmas Tree (1996)
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels (1996)
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful (1996)
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996)
Eye for an Eye (1996)
A Woman of Independent Means (1995)
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump (1994)
ER (1994)
Inside the Actors Studio (1994)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! (1994)
A Century of Cinema (1994)
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
Intimate Portrait (1993)
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993)
The Larry Sanders Show (1992)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991)
Dying Young (1991)
Soapdish (1991)
Not Without My Daughter (1991)
Voices That Care (1990)
Steel Magnolias (1989)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1988)
Punchline (1988)
Surrender (1987)
Barbra Streisand: One Voice (1986)
Murphy's Romance (1985)
Places in the Heart (1984)
Kiss Me Goodbye (1982)
Lily for President? (1982)
All the Way Home (1981)
Absence of Malice (1981)
Back Roads (1981)
Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)
Carol Burnett & Company (1979)
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
Norma Rae (1979)
Mickey's 50 (1978)
Hooper (1978)
The End (1978)
Heroes (1977)
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
Sybil (1976)
Bridger (1976)
Stay Hungry (1976)
Saturday Night Live (1975)
Home for the Holidays (1974)
The Girl with Something Extra (1973)
The American Film Institute Salute to ... (1973)
Mongo's Back in Town (1971)
Marriage: Year One (1971)
Hitched (1971)
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring (1971)
Great Performances (1971)
Alias Smith and Jones (1971)
Night Gallery (1970)
The Dick Cavett Show (1968)
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967)
The Flying Nun (1967)
The Way West (1967)
Hollywood Squares (1966)
Occasional Wife (1966)
Hey Landlord! (1966)
Gidget (1965)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)
The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1954)
The Oscars (1953)
The Emmy Awards (1949)
A Cooler Climate
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1946-11-06 (77 years old)
Birth NameSally Margaret Field
Birth PlacePasadena, United States of America
Height
ChildrenEli Craig, Peter Craig
FatherRichard Dryden Field
MotherMargaret Field
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsSally Margaret Field
AwardsFellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, National Medal of Arts, Kennedy Center Honors, Crystal Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Academy Award for Best Actress
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