Sally Field
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
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
131
Gender
Female
Birthday
1946-11-06 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Pasadena, California, USA
Acting

2023

80 for Brady as Betty

2022

Spoiler Alert as Marilyn

2022

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home as Self (archive footage)

2020

Love Letters as Melissa Gardner

2019

The Kelly Clarkson Show as Not available

2018

Maniac as Dr. Greta Mantleray

2017

Little Evil as Miss Shaylock

2017

Spielberg as Self

2016

Chelsea as Self

2015

Hello, My Name Is Doris as Doris Miller

2014

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 as Aunt May

2012

Finding Your Roots as Self

2012

Honest Trailers as May Parker (archive footage)

2012

The Amazing Spider-Man as Aunt May

2012

Lincoln as Mary Todd Lincoln

2008

The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning as Marina Del Ray (voice)

2006

Brothers and Sisters as Nora Walker

2006

Two Weeks as Anita Bergman

2004

The Tony Danza Show as Self

2003

Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Not available

2003

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde as Rep. Victoria Rudd

2002

The Court as Justice Kate Nolan

2001

Say It Isn't So as Valdine Wingfield

2001

David Copperfield as Aunt Betsey Trotwood

2000

Where the Heart Is as Mama Lil

1999

The Directors as Self

1999

A Cooler Climate as Iris

1998

From the Earth to the Moon as Trudy Cooper

1998

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies as Self - Host

1997

The View as Self

1997

King of the Hill as Junie Harper (voice)

1997

Merry Christmas, George Bailey! as Mrs. Bailey / Narrator

1996

Eye for an Eye as Karen McCann

1996

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels as Self (archive footage)

1995

A Woman of Independent Means as Bess Alcott Steed Garner

1994

ER as Maggie Wyczenski

1994

Forrest Gump as Mrs. Gump

1994

A Century of Cinema as Self

1993

Intimate Portrait as Self (archive footage)

1993

Mrs. Doubtfire as Miranda Hillard

1992

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Not available

1992

The Larry Sanders Show as Sally Field

1991

Not Without My Daughter as Betty Mahmoody

1991

Soapdish as Celeste Talbert

1991

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire as Self - Hostess

1991

Voices That Care as Self - Choir Member

1989

Steel Magnolias as M'Lynn Eatenton

1988

Punchline as Lilah Krytsick

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

1979

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure as Celeste Whitman

1979

Norma Rae as Norma Rae

1978

Hooper as Gwen Doyle

1978

The End as Mary Ellen

1978

Mickey's 50 as Self

1977

Smokey and the Bandit as Carrie 'Frog'

1977

Heroes as Carol Bell

1976

Sybil as Sybil

1976

Stay Hungry as Mary Tate Farnsworth

1976

Bridger as Jennifer Melford

1975

Saturday Night Live as Self - Host

1974

Home for the Holidays as Christine Morgan

1973

The Girl with Something Extra as Sally Burton

1971

Great Performances as Self

1971

Alias Smith and Jones as Not available

1971

Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring as Denise "Dennie" Miller

1971

Mongo's Back in Town as Vikki

1971

Hitched as Roselle Bridgeman

1967

The Way West as Mercy McBee

1971

Marriage: Year One as Jane Duden

1970

Night Gallery as Irene Evans

1968

The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest

1968

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1967

The Flying Nun as Sister Bertrille

1966

Hollywood Squares as Self

1966

Occasional Wife as Not available

1965

Gidget as Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Nominee

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Presenter

1953

The Oscars as Self

1949

The Emmy Awards as Self - Presenter

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter/Winner

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner
Crew

2000

Beautiful Director

1997

Eye of God Thanks

1996

The Christmas Tree Director

1996

The Christmas Tree Teleplay

1996

The Christmas Tree Executive Producer

1995

A Woman of Independent Means Executive Producer

1991

Dying Young Producer