Sally Field
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
122
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
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
The Graham Norton Show
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Great Performances
Saturday Night Live
King of the Hill
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Late Late Show with James Corden
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
ER
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The View
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Forrest Gump
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Dick Cavett Show
Brothers and Sisters
Intimate Portrait
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
The Tony Danza Show
Night Gallery
Chelsea
Finding Your Roots
The Larry Sanders Show
The Oscars
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
From the Earth to the Moon
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Alias Smith and Jones
Not Without My Daughter
The Flying Nun
Smokey and the Bandit
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Mrs. Doubtfire
Maniac
Stay Hungry
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Gidget
Occasional Wife
80 for Brady
Smokey and the Bandit II
Steel Magnolias
Lincoln
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Where the Heart Is
The Directors
The Last Movie Stars
Places in the Heart
Surrender
Two Weeks
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
Hollywood Squares
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
Sybil
Eye for an Eye
Spielberg
A Cooler Climate
Say It Isn't So
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
Heroes
The Way West
Voices That Care
The Emmy Awards
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
Dispatches from Elsewhere
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
The Court
Hooper
Little Evil
Spoiler Alert
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Norma Rae
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Kiss Me Goodbye
Punchline
Absence of Malice
Back Roads
All the Way Home
The Girl with Something Extra
Mickey's 50
Soapdish
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
The Wonderful World of Disney
Marriage: Year One
A Woman of Independent Means
The End
Hitched
Home for the Holidays
Merry Christmas, George Bailey!
Murphy's Romance
Hello, My Name Is Doris
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
Inside the Actors Studio
A Century of Cinema
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
David Copperfield
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Love Letters
Bridger
Mongo's Back in Town
Moon Pilot
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
The Greatest Stuntman Alive
The Desert of Forbidden Art
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Lily for President?
