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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…
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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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BODY OF WORK
Sally Field's Filmography
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Dolly Parton: An American Original – Special Edition of 20/20
as Self (archive footage)
Marty, Life Is Short
as Self (archive footage)
Remarkably Bright Creatures
as Tova Sullivan
80 for Brady
as Betty
Spoiler Alert
as Marilyn
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
as Self (archive footage)
I Am Burt Reynolds
as Self (archive)
Love Letters
as Melissa Gardner
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
as Kate Keller
Spielberg
as Self
Little Evil
as Miss Shaylock
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
as Self (Archive)
Hello, My Name Is Doris
as Doris Miller
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
as Aunt May
Lincoln
as Mary Todd Lincoln
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
as Self
The Amazing Spider-Man
as Aunt May
The Desert of Forbidden Art
as Voice
Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
as Marina Del Ray (voice)
No Poster
Brothers & Sisters: Family Album
as Self/Nora Walker
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
as Self
Two Weeks
as Anita Bergman
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
as Victoria Rudd
David Copperfield
as Betsey Trotwood
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
as Self
Say It Isn't So
as Valdine Wingfield
Where the Heart Is
as Mama Lil
Saturday Night Live: Christmas
as Mom (archive footage)
A Cooler Climate
as Iris
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
as Self / Host
Merry Christmas, George Bailey
as Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
as Self
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
as Self (archive footage)
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
as Self
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
as Sassy (voice)
Eye for an Eye
as Karen McCann
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
as Self
Forrest Gump
as Mrs. Gump
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
as Self (archive footage)
A Century of Cinema
as Self
Mrs. Doubtfire
as Miranda Hillard
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
as Sassy (voice)
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
as Self - Hostess
Soapdish
as Celeste Talbert
Voices That Care
as Self - Choir Member
Not Without My Daughter
as Betty Mahmoody
Steel Magnolias
as M'Lynn Eatenton
No Poster
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Self (voice)
Punchline
as Lilah Krytsick
Surrender
as Daisy Morgan
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
as Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)
Murphy's Romance
as Emma Moriarty
Places in the Heart
as Edna Spalding
Kiss Me Goodbye
as Kay
Lily for President?
as Beth Barber
All the Way Home
as Mary Follet
Absence of Malice
as Megan Carter
Back Roads
as Amy Post
Smokey and the Bandit II
as Carrie
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
as Celeste Whitman
Norma Rae
as Norma Rae
Mickey's 50
as Self
Hooper
as Gwen Doyle
The End
as Mary Ellen
The Greatest Stuntman Alive
as Herself
Heroes
as Carol Bell
Smokey and the Bandit
as Carrie
Bridger
as Jennifer Melford
Stay Hungry
as Mary Tate Farnsworth
Home for the Holidays
as Christine Morgan
Hitched
as Roselle Bridgeman
Mongo's Back in Town
as Vikki
Marriage: Year One
as Jane Duden
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
as Denise "Dennie" Miller
The Way West
as Mercy McBee
Moon Pilot
as Beatnik Girl in Lineup (uncredited)