
Sally Field
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1946-11-06 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Pasadena, California, USA
Sally Field
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 (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
Acting
Remarkably Bright Creatures
as Tova
(2023)
80 for Brady
as Betty
(2022)
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
as Self (archive footage)
(2022)
Spoiler Alert
as Marilyn
(2020)
Love Letters
as Melissa Gardner
(2019)
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
as Kate Keller
(2017)
Little Evil
as Miss Shaylock
(2017)
Spielberg
as Self
(2015)
Hello, My Name Is Doris
as Doris Miller
(2014)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
as Aunt May
(2012)
The Amazing Spider-Man
as Aunt May
(2012)
Lincoln
as Mary Todd Lincoln
(2012)
(2011)
The Desert of Forbidden Art
as Voice
(2008)
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
as Marina Del Ray (voice)
(2007)
(2006)
Two Weeks
as Anita Bergman
(2003)
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
as Rep. Victoria Rudd
(2001)
Say It Isn't So
as Valdine Wingfield
(2001)
David Copperfield
as Aunt Betsey Trotwood
(2001)
(2000)
Where the Heart Is
as Mama Lil
(1999)
A Cooler Climate
as Iris
(1998)
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
as Self / Host
(1997)
Merry Christmas, George Bailey!
as Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
(1997)
(1996)
Eye for an Eye
as Karen McCann
(1996)
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
as Sassy (voice)
(1996)
(1996)
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
as Self (archive footage)
(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
(1994)
(1993)
Mrs. Doubtfire
as Miranda Hillard
(1993)
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
as Sassy (voice)
(1991)
Not Without My Daughter
as Betty Mahmoody
(1991)
Soapdish
as Celeste Talbert
(1991)
Voices That Care
as Self - Choir Member
(1991)
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
as Self - Hostess
(1989)
Steel Magnolias
as M'Lynn Eatenton
(1989)
(1988)
Punchline
as Lilah Krytsick
(1988)
(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)
Absence of Malice
as Megan Carter
(1981)
Back Roads
as Amy Post
(1981)
All the Way Home
as Mary Follet
(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)
The End
as Mary Ellen
(1978)
Hooper
as Gwen Doyle
(1977)
Smokey and the Bandit
as Carrie 'Frog'
(1977)
Heroes
as Carol Bell
(1976)
Stay Hungry
as Mary Tate Farnsworth
(1976)
Bridger
as Jennifer Melford
(1974)
Home for the Holidays
as Christine Morgan
(1971)
Hitched
as Roselle Bridgeman
(1971)
Marriage: Year One
as Jane Duden
(1971)
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
as Denise "Dennie" Miller
(1971)
Mongo's Back in Town
as Vikki
(1967)
The Way West
as Mercy McBee
Crew
(2000)
Beautiful
Director
(1997)
Eye of God
Thanks
(1996)
The Christmas Tree
Director, Teleplay, Executive Producer
(1991)
Dying Young
Producer