Sissy Spacek
Mary Elizabeth 'Sissy' Spacek (born December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for four British Academy Film Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. Spacek was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011. Born and raised in Texas, she initially aspired to a career as a recording artist. In 1968, at age 18, she recorded a single, "John, You Went Too Far This Time," under the name Rainbo. She began her professional acting career in the early 1970s, making her debut as an extra in Andy Warhol's Women in Revolt (1971). Her breakout role came with Terrence Malick's influential crime film Badlands (1973), which earned her a nomination for the British Academy Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles. She rose to international prominence with her portrayal of Carrie White in Brian De Palma's horror film Carrie (1976), for which she received her first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. After appearing in the acclaimed films Welcome to L.A. (1976) and Robert Altman's 3 Women (1977), she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn in the biographical musical film Coal Miner's Daughter (1980). Her other Oscar-nominated roles include Missing (1982), The River (1984), Crimes of the Heart (1986), and In the Bedroom (2001). Her other prominent films include Raggedy Man (1981), JFK (1991), Affliction (1997), The Straight Story (1999), Tuck Everlasting (2002), Nine Lives (2005), North Country (2005), Four Christmases (2008), Get Low (2010), The Help (2011), and The Old Man & the Gun (2018). She received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the television films The Good Old Boys (1995) and Last Call (2002), and for her guest role on the HBO drama series Big Love (2011). She portrayed matriarch Sally Rayburn on the Netflix drama thriller series Bloodline (2015–2017), Ruth Deaver on the Hulu psychological horror series Castle Rock (2018), and Ellen Bergman on the Amazon Prime Video psychological thriller series Homecoming (2018). She has also ventured into music, and recorded vocals for the soundtrack album of Coal Miner's Daughter, which peaked at number two on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart and garnered her a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. She released a studio album, Hangin' Up My Heart (1983), which was critically well-received and peaked at number 17 on Billboard Top Country Albums chart.
Born: 25 December 1949
Played In
Love Letter to Texas
Narrator
Die My Love
Pam
Dying for Sex
Gail
Henry Fonda for President
Self (archive footage)
Sam & Kate
Tina
Night Sky
Irene York
Without Getting Killed or Caught
Narrator / Voice of Susanna Clark (voice)
Homecoming
Ellen Bergman
The Old Man & the Gun
Jewel
Castle Rock
Ruth Deaver
GQ Presents: Iconic Characters
Self
HyperNormalisation
Self (archive footage)
River of Gold
Narrator
Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl
Self / Loretta Lynn
Bloodline
Sally Rayburn
Off Camera with Sam Jones
Self
Making Badlands
Self
Deadfall
June
The Help
Missus Walters
Get Low
Mattie Darrow
Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People
Four Christmases
Paula
Lake City
Maggie
Pictures of Hollis Woods
Josie Cahill
Hot Rod
Marie Powell
Gray Matters
Dr. Sydney
Big Love
Marilyn Densham
Nine Lives
Ruth
An American Haunting
Lucy Bell
The Ring Two
Evelyn
North Country
Alice Aimes
A Home at the End of the World
Alice Glover
Absence of Malick
Self
A Decade Under the Influence
Self
Tuck Everlasting
Mae Tuck
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Self
Last Call
Zelda Fitzgerald
In the Bedroom
Ruth Fowler
Acting 'Carrie'
Self
Visualizing 'Carrie'
Self (archive footage)
Midwives
Sibyl Danforth
Songs In Ordinary Time
Marie Fermoyle
The Straight Story
Rose
The Rage: Carrie 2
Carrie White (archive footage) (uncredited)
Blast from the Past
Helen
Affliction
Margie Fogg
The View
Self
The Grass Harp
Verena Talbo
If These Walls Could Talk
Barbara Barrows
Beyond the Call
Pam O'Brien
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest
Streets of Laredo
Lorena
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain
Martha Jefferson Randolph (voice)
The Good Old Boys
Spring Renfro
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
A Place for Annie
Susan Lansing
Trading Mom
Mommy / Mama / Mom / Natasha
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
Self
A Private Matter
Sherri Finkbine
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
Narrator (voice)
Hard Promises
Christine Ann Coalter
Fonda on Fonda
Self - The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (archive footage)
JFK
Liz Garrison
The Talking Eggs
Narrator (voice)
Voices That Care
Self - Choir Member
The Long Walk Home
Miriam Thompson
Seitenblicke
self
Crimes of the Heart
Babe Magrath
'night, Mother
Jessie Cates
Violets Are Blue
Augusta "Gussie" Sawyer
Marie: A True Story
Marie Ragghianti
The River
Mae Garvey
The Man with Two Brains
Anne Uumellmahaye (uncredited) (voice)
Missing
Beth Horman
Raggedy Man
Nita
Heart Beat
Carolyn Cassady
Coal Miner's Daughter
Loretta Lynn
Verna: USO Girl
Verna Vane
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
Self
3 Women
Mildred "Pinky" Rose
Welcome to L.A.
Linda Murray
Carrie
Carrie
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
Katherine
Katherine Alman
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
Ginger in the Morning
Ginger Brown
The Migrants
Wanda Trimpin
Badlands
Holly Sargis
The Girls of Huntington House
Sara
The Waltons
The Rookies
Prime Cut
Poppy
Great Performances
Verna Vane
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
The Oscars
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Susan Lansing
A Woman in the Sun