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.
Born: 06 November 1946
Played In
Marty, Life Is Short
Self (archive footage)
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Tova Sullivan
Talking Pictures: A Movie Memories Podcast
Self
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
Self
80 for Brady
Betty
Spoiler Alert
Marilyn
The Last Movie Stars
Self
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Jessie Buss
I Am Burt Reynolds
Self (archive)
Love Letters
Melissa Gardner
Dispatches from Elsewhere
Janice
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
Kate Keller
Maniac
Dr. Greta Mantleray
Spielberg
Self
Little Evil
Miss Shaylock
Chelsea
Self
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
Self (Archive)
Hello, My Name Is Doris
Doris Miller
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Aunt May
Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
Self
The Amazing Spider-Man
Aunt May
Finding Your Roots
Self
The Desert of Forbidden Art
Voice
Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
Marina Del Ray (voice)
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
Self
Brothers & Sisters: Family Album
Self/Nora Walker
The Graham Norton Show
Self
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Self
Two Weeks
Anita Bergman
Brothers and Sisters
Nora Walker
The Tony Danza Show
Self
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Victoria Rudd
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
The Court
Justice Kate Nolan
David Copperfield
Betsey Trotwood
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
Self
Say It Isn't So
Valdine Wingfield
David Copperfield
Betsey Trotwood
Where the Heart Is
Mama Lil
A Cooler Climate
Iris
The Directors
Self
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
Self - Host
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
Self / Host
From the Earth to the Moon
Trudy Cooper
Merry Christmas, George Bailey
Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
The View
Self - Guest
The View
Self
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
Self
King of the Hill
Junie Harper (voice)
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Self (archive footage)
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Self
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
Sassy (voice)
Eye for an Eye
Karen McCann
A Woman of Independent Means
Bess Alcott Steed Garner
ER
Maggie Wyczenski
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Self
Forrest Gump
Mrs. Gump
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Self (archive footage)
A Century of Cinema
Self
Mrs. Doubtfire
Miranda Hillard
Intimate Portrait
Self (archive footage)
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Sassy (voice)
The Larry Sanders Show
Sally Field
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Self - Hostess
Soapdish
Celeste Talbert
Voices That Care
Self - Choir Member
Not Without My Daughter
Betty Mahmoody
Steel Magnolias
M'Lynn Eatenton
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Self (voice)
Punchline
Lilah Krytsick
Surrender
Daisy Morgan
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)
Murphy's Romance
Emma Moriarty
Places in the Heart
Edna Spalding
Kiss Me Goodbye
Kay
Lily for President?
Beth Barber
All the Way Home
Mary Follet
Absence of Malice
Megan Carter
Back Roads
Amy Post
Smokey and the Bandit II
Carrie
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
Celeste Whitman
Norma Rae
Norma Rae
Mickey's 50
Self
Hooper
Gwen Doyle
The End
Mary Ellen
The Greatest Stuntman Alive
Herself
Heroes
Carol Bell
Smokey and the Bandit
Carrie 'Frog'
Sybil
Sybil
Bridger
Jennifer Melford
Stay Hungry
Mary Tate Farnsworth
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
Home for the Holidays
Christine Morgan
The Girl with Something Extra
Sally Burton
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
Hitched
Roselle Bridgeman
Mongo's Back in Town
Vikki
Film '72
Self
Marriage: Year One
Jane Duden
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
Denise "Dennie" Miller
Great Performances
Self
Alias Smith and Jones
Night Gallery
Irene Evans
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self
The Flying Nun
Sister Bertrille
The Way West
Mercy McBee
Hollywood Squares
Self
Occasional Wife
The Dating Game
Sally Field
Gidget
Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
Moon Pilot
Beatnik Girl in Lineup (uncredited)
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
The Wonderful World of Disney
Self
The Oscars
Self
The Emmy Awards
Self - Presenter
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Self - Winner