Sally Field

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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.

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  • wc Gender: Female
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1946-11-06
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  • school Known for: Acting
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  • info Birth Place Pasadena, California, USA
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8.5

Forrest Gump

1994-06-23

7.1

Spoiler Alert

2022-12-02

6.4

80 for Brady

2023-02-03

7.2

Mrs. Doubtfire

1993-11-24

5.7

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

2003-07-02

7.2

Steel Magnolias

1989-11-15

5.7

Stay Hungry

1976-04-23

4.7

Say It Isn't So

2001-03-10

7

Smokey and the Bandit

1977-05-26

7

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

1993-02-03

5.4

Home for the Holidays

1974-07-13

5.1

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

1979-05-18

6.6

Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco

1996-03-08

6.3

Soapdish

1991-05-31

6.6

Not Without My Daughter

1991-01-11

5.5

Smokey and the Bandit II

1980-08-15

6

Murphy's Romance

1985-12-25

6.7

The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning

2008-08-25

7.2

Places in the Heart

1984-09-11

7.1

Norma Rae

1979-03-02

5.4

Punchline

1988-10-07

5.5

The End

1978-05-10

6

The Way West

1967-05-24

5.6

Back Roads

1981-03-13

6.3

Hooper

1978-07-28

8

Voices That Care

1991-02-28

6.1

Two Weeks

2006-10-20

6.1

Eye for an Eye

1996-01-12

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Lee Strasberg: The Method Man

1997-07-23

6.6

Absence of Malice

1981-11-19

5.8

Kiss Me Goodbye

1982-12-22

6.9

Lincoln

2012-11-09

6.2

Heroes

1977-11-04

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Lily for President?

1982-05-20

6.2

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

1996-05-19

4.7

The Desert of Forbidden Art

2011-03-18

6.6

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

2014-04-16

6.3

David Copperfield

2001-12-25

4.9

Surrender

1987-10-09

4.7

A Cooler Climate

1999-08-22

0

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies

1998-06-16

4.8

Mongo's Back in Town

1971-12-10

5.4

Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring

1971-02-16

6

Hitched

1971-03-31

6.7

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home

2022-05-03

7.6

Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump

1994-10-01

6.7

The Amazing Spider-Man

2012-06-23

7.1

Where the Heart Is

2000-04-27

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Merry Christmas, George Bailey!

1997-12-25

6.4

Hello, My Name Is Doris

2015-11-27

7.6

Barbra Streisand: One Voice

1986-12-27

7

All the Way Home

1981-12-21

6

Marriage: Year One

1971-10-15

0

Remarkably Bright Creatures

0

Sybil

1976-11-14

5.7

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

1991-07-15

5.6

Little Evil

2017-08-08

7.6

Spielberg

2017-10-05

10

The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful

1996-03-17

8.5

National Theatre Live: All My Sons

2019-05-14

6

The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"

2001-06-13

6

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

1988-11-22

0

Mickey's 50

1978-11-19

8

A Century of Cinema

1994-01-01

0

Bridger

1976-09-10

0

Love Letters

2020-05-21

6

The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo

2007-01-01

7

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

1994-05-18

7.3

Inside the Actors Studio

1994-08-14

5.8

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

2003-09-08

6.1

The Tony Danza Show

2004-09-13

7.1

Brothers and Sisters

2006-09-24

5.5

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

2003-01-26

6.4

Gidget

1965-09-15

6.6

The Flying Nun

1967-09-07

7.4

King of the Hill

1997-01-12

4.5

The View

1997-08-11

6.9

Alias Smith and Jones

1971-01-05

5.4

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

1992-05-25

6.2

Finding Your Roots

2012-03-24

7.8

Night Gallery

1970-12-16

7.5

The Girl with Something Extra

1973-09-14

6.4

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

1967-09-09

4.5

Intimate Portrait

1993-11-14

7.4

Maniac

2018-09-21

7.5

Occasional Wife

1966-09-13

10

The Court

2002-03-26

7

The Oscars

1953-03-19

7.7

The Larry Sanders Show

1992-08-15

8.2

From the Earth to the Moon

1998-04-05

7.4

Sybil

1976-11-14

7

Saturday Night Live

1975-10-11

7.8

ER

1994-09-19

5.5

The Late Late Show with James Corden

2015-03-23

5.2

Chelsea

2016-05-11

7.7

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

2022-03-06

4.5

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

1973-04-02

6.2

The Kelly Clarkson Show

2019-09-09

4.3

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

2014-12-21

4.8

The Mike Douglas Show

1961-12-11

4.9

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

2009-07-16

6.8

The Last Movie Stars

2022-07-21

7.4

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962-10-01

7.5

The Emmy Awards

1949-01-25

6.7

Dispatches from Elsewhere

2020-03-01

6.6

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015-09-08

10

A Woman of Independent Means

1995-02-19

7.2

The Graham Norton Show

2007-02-22

6.6

The Dick Cavett Show

1968-06-06

7.6

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954-10-27

8

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies

1998-06-23

7.5

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis

2008-01-04

8.2

Hollywood Squares

1966-10-17

4.9

Great Performances

1971-01-28

5

Tony Awards

1956-04-01

5

Tony Awards

1956-04-01

6.8

Golden Globe Awards

1944-01-20

6.8

Golden Globe Awards

1944-01-20

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