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Sally Field

Born
November 6, 1946
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
Forrest Gump
(1994)
Mrs. Gump
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
(2014)
Aunt May
The Amazing Spider-Man
(2012)
Aunt May
Mrs. Doubtfire
(1993)
Miranda Hillard
Lincoln
(2012)
Mary Todd Lincoln
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
(2003)
Rep. Victoria Rudd
Steel Magnolias
(1989)
M'Lynn Eatenton
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
(2022)
Self (archive footage)
Spoiler Alert
(2022)
Marilyn
Where the Heart Is
(2000)
Mama Lil
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
(1993)
Sassy (voice)
Smokey and the Bandit
(1977)
Carrie 'Frog'
Spielberg
(2017)
Self
80 for Brady
(2023)
Betty
Eye for an Eye
(1996)
Karen McCann
Little Evil
(2017)
Miss Shaylock
Full Filmography
Acting
The Way West
(1967)
Mercy McBee
Mongo's Back in Town
(1971)
Vikki
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
(1971)
Denise "Dennie" Miller
Hitched
(1971)
Roselle Bridgeman
Marriage: Year One
(1971)
Jane Duden
Home for the Holidays
(1974)
Christine Morgan
Stay Hungry
(1976)
Mary Tate Farnsworth
Bridger
(1976)
Jennifer Melford
Smokey and the Bandit
(1977)
Carrie 'Frog'
Heroes
(1977)
Carol Bell
The End
(1978)
Mary Ellen
Hooper
(1978)
Gwen Doyle
Mickey's 50
(1978)
Self
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
(1979)
Celeste Whitman
Norma Rae
(1979)
Norma Rae
Smokey and the Bandit II
(1980)
Carrie
Back Roads
(1981)
Amy Post
Absence of Malice
(1981)
Megan Carter
All the Way Home
(1981)
Mary Follet
Kiss Me Goodbye
(1982)
Kay
Lily for President?
(1982)
Beth Barber
Places in the Heart
(1984)
Edna Spalding
Murphy's Romance
(1985)
Emma Moriarty
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
(1986)
Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)
Surrender
(1987)
Daisy Morgan
Punchline
(1988)
Lilah Krytsick
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
(1988)
Self
Steel Magnolias
(1989)
M'Lynn Eatenton
Soapdish
(1991)
Celeste Talbert
Not Without My Daughter
(1991)
Betty Mahmoody
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
(1991)
Self - Hostess
Voices That Care
(1991)
Self - Choir Member
Mrs. Doubtfire
(1993)
Miranda Hillard
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
(1993)
Sassy (voice)
Forrest Gump
(1994)
Mrs. Gump
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
(1994)
Self
A Century of Cinema
(1994)
Self
Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
(1994)
Self (archive footage)
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
(1996)
Sassy (voice)
Eye for an Eye
(1996)
Karen McCann
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
(1996)
Self
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
(1996)
Self (archive footage)
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
(1997)
Self
Merry Christmas, George Bailey!
(1997)
Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
(1998)
Self / Host
A Cooler Climate
(1999)
Iris
Where the Heart Is
(2000)
Mama Lil
Say It Isn't So
(2001)
Valdine Wingfield
David Copperfield
(2001)
Aunt Betsey Trotwood
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
(2001)
Self
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
(2003)
Rep. Victoria Rudd
Two Weeks
(2006)
Anita Bergman
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
(2007)
Self
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
(2008)
Marina Del Ray (voice)
The Desert of Forbidden Art
(2011)
Voice
The Amazing Spider-Man
(2012)
Aunt May
Lincoln
(2012)
Mary Todd Lincoln
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
(2014)
Aunt May
Hello, My Name Is Doris
(2015)
Doris Miller
Little Evil
(2017)
Miss Shaylock
Spielberg
(2017)
Self
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
(2019)
Kate Keller
Love Letters
(2020)
Melissa Gardner
Spoiler Alert
(2022)
Marilyn
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
(2022)
Self (archive footage)
80 for Brady
(2023)
Betty
Production
Directing
Writing
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