Sally Field
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
123
Gender
Female
Birthday
1946-11-06 (79 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
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
ER
Saturday Night Live
The Graham Norton Show
King of the Hill
The View
The Mike Douglas Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Great Performances
The Late Late Show with James Corden
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Forrest Gump
The Dick Cavett Show
Brothers and Sisters
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
The Tony Danza Show
The Merv Griffin Show
The Amazing Spider-Man
Intimate Portrait
The Oscars
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Larry Sanders Show
Chelsea
From the Earth to the Moon
Finding Your Roots
Night Gallery
Lincoln
Mrs. Doubtfire
Alias Smith and Jones
Maniac
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
Hooper
Places in the Heart
Hitched
Soapdish
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Kiss Me Goodbye
Eye for an Eye
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Merry Christmas, George Bailey
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Gidget
Hollywood Squares
The Directors
Steel Magnolias
The Flying Nun
Dispatches from Elsewhere
Back Roads
The Last Movie Stars
Marriage: Year One
The Girl with Something Extra
The Wonderful World of Disney
Smokey and the Bandit
The Emmy Awards
Where the Heart Is
Occasional Wife
Surrender
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Not Without My Daughter
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Remarkably Bright Creatures
80 for Brady
The Court
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
Sybil
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
Smokey and the Bandit II
Spielberg
Absence of Malice
The Way West
Norma Rae
Spoiler Alert
Little Evil
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Say It Isn't So
Punchline
Bridger
Stay Hungry
Hello, My Name Is Doris
A Woman of Independent Means
Brothers & Sisters: Family Album
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
Murphy's Romance
Two Weeks
Inside the Actors Studio
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
Moon Pilot
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
Voices That Care
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Heroes
The End
A Century of Cinema
Mickey's 50
All the Way Home
The Desert of Forbidden Art
Home for the Holidays
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
David Copperfield
Love Letters
Lily for President?
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
A Cooler Climate
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
Mongo's Back in Town
The Greatest Stuntman Alive
Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
