Sally Field
Acting
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.
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
as Sassy (voice)
Age 46 (now 79)
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
as Victoria Rudd
Age 56 (now 79)
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
as Sassy (voice)
Age 49 (now 79)
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
as Kate Keller
Age 72 (now 79)
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
as Self (Archive)
Age 69 (now 79)
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
as Self
Age 66 (now 79)
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
as Marina Del Ray (voice)
Age 61 (now 79)Brothers & Sisters: Family Album
as Self/Nora Walker
Age 60 (now 79)
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
as Self
Age 60 (now 79)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
as Carrie 'Frog' (uncredited/archive footage)
Age 57 (now 79) Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
as Victoria Rudd
Age 56 (now 79)
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
as Self
Age 54 (now 79)
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
as Self / Host
Age 51 (now 79)
Merry Christmas, George Bailey
as Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
Age 51 (now 79)
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
as Self (archive footage)
Age 49 (now 79)
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
as Self
Age 49 (now 79) Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
as Sassy (voice)
Age 49 (now 79)
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
as Self (archive footage)
Age 47 (now 79)
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
as Sassy (voice)
Age 46 (now 79)
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
as Self - Hostess
Age 44 (now 79)
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Self (voice)
Age 42 (now 79)
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
as Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)
Age 40 (now 79)
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
as Celeste Whitman
Age 32 (now 79)
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
as Denise "Dennie" Miller
Age 24 (now 79)
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
as Jessie Buss
Age 75 (now 79)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
Age 68 (now 79)
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest
Age 68 (now 79)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
Age 68 (now 79)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
Age 62 (now 79) Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self- Guest
Age 62 (now 79)
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
as Self
Age 61 (now 79)
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
as Self - Host
Age 51 (now 79)
A Woman of Independent Means
as Bess Alcott Steed Garner
Age 48 (now 79) A Woman of Independent Means
Executive Producer
Age 48 (now 79)
The Girl with Something Extra
as Sally Burton
Age 26 (now 79)
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
Age 26 (now 79)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
Age 15 (now 79)
Gathering insights...
Also Known As
Sally Margaret Field
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