Sally Field
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
127
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
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Saturday Night Live
The Graham Norton Show
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
King of the Hill
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Mike Douglas Show
ER
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
The View
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Forrest Gump
Great Performances
The Merv Griffin Show
The Amazing Spider-Man
Mrs. Doubtfire
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Dick Cavett Show
Brothers and Sisters
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Intimate Portrait
The Tony Danza Show
Finding Your Roots
Chelsea
The Oscars
Night Gallery
The Larry Sanders Show
Alias Smith and Jones
From the Earth to the Moon
The Flying Nun
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Maniac
Lincoln
Dispatches from Elsewhere
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Stay Hungry
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
Not Without My Daughter
Smokey and the Bandit
Steel Magnolias
Back Roads
The Way West
Where the Heart Is
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
The Last Movie Stars
Gidget
Little Evil
Two Weeks
Heroes
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
Hitched
80 for Brady
Surrender
Norma Rae
Sybil
Hooper
Soapdish
Hollywood Squares
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
The End
Places in the Heart
Eye for an Eye
The Directors
Mickey's 50
Punchline
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
The Emmy Awards
Smokey and the Bandit II
Murphy's Romance
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
The Wonderful World of Disney
Say It Isn't So
Spielberg
Absence of Malice
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story
The Court
Voices That Care
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
Brothers & Sisters: Family Album
Occasional Wife
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
Kiss Me Goodbye
Home for the Holidays
All the Way Home
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Hello, My Name Is Doris
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
A Century of Cinema
The Girl with Something Extra
A Cooler Climate
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
Merry Christmas, George Bailey
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Spoiler Alert
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Mongo's Back in Town
Marriage: Year One
Moon Pilot
A Woman of Independent Means
Inside the Actors Studio
David Copperfield
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
Love Letters
Lily for President?
Bridger
The Desert of Forbidden Art
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
The Greatest Stuntman Alive
