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Sissy Spacek
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Mary Elizabeth 'Sissy' Spacek (born December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for four British Academy Film Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. Spacek was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011.
Born and raised in Texas, she initially aspired to a career as a recording artist. In 1968, at age 18, she recorded a single, "John, You Went Too Far This Time," under the name Rainbo. She began her professional acting career in the early 1970s, making her debut as an extra in Andy Warhol's Women in Revolt …
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Mary Elizabeth 'Sissy' Spacek (born December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for four British Academy Film Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. Spacek was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011. Born and raised in Texas, she initially aspired to a career as a recording artist. In 1968, at age 18, she recorded a single, "John, You Went Too Far This Time," under the name Rainbo. She began her professional acting career in the early 1970s, making her debut as an extra in Andy Warhol's Women in Revolt (1971). Her breakout role came with Terrence Malick's influential crime film Badlands (1973), which earned her a nomination for the British Academy Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles. She rose to international prominence with her portrayal of Carrie White in Brian De Palma's horror film Carrie (1976), for which she received her first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. After appearing in the acclaimed films Welcome to L.A. (1976) and Robert Altman's 3 Women (1977), she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn in the biographical musical film Coal Miner's Daughter (1980). Her other Oscar-nominated roles include Missing (1982), The River (1984), Crimes of the Heart (1986), and In the Bedroom (2001). Her other prominent films include Raggedy Man (1981), JFK (1991), Affliction (1997), The Straight Story (1999), Tuck Everlasting (2002), Nine Lives (2005), North Country (2005), Four Christmases (2008), Get Low (2010), The Help (2011), and The Old Man & the Gun (2018). She received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the television films The Good Old Boys (1995) and Last Call (2002), and for her guest role on the HBO drama series Big Love (2011). She portrayed matriarch Sally Rayburn on the Netflix drama thriller series Bloodline (2015–2017), Ruth Deaver on the Hulu psychological horror series Castle Rock (2018), and Ellen Bergman on the Amazon Prime Video psychological thriller series Homecoming (2018). She has also ventured into music, and recorded vocals for the soundtrack album of Coal Miner's Daughter, which peaked at number two on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart and garnered her a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. She released a studio album, Hangin' Up My Heart (1983), which was critically well-received and peaked at number 17 on Billboard Top Country Albums chart.
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Sissy Spacek's Filmography
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The Catch
Love Letter to Texas
as Narrator
Die My Love
as Pam
Henry Fonda for President
as Self (archive footage)
Sam & Kate
as Tina
Without Getting Killed or Caught
as Narrator / Voice of Susanna Clark (voice)
The Old Man & the Gun
as Jewel
HyperNormalisation
as Self (archive footage)
River of Gold
as Narrator
Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl
as Self / Loretta Lynn
Making Badlands
as Self
Deadfall
as June
A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King
as Self (archive footage)
The Help
as Missus Walters
Get Low
as Mattie Darrow
Four Christmases
as Paula
Lake City
as Maggie
Pictures of Hollis Woods
as Josie Cahill
Hot Rod
as Marie Powell
Gray Matters
as Dr. Sydney
Nine Lives
as Ruth
An American Haunting
as Lucy Bell
The Ring Two
as Evelyn
North Country
as Alice Aimes
A Home at the End of the World
as Alice Glover
Absence of Malick
as Self
A Decade Under the Influence
as Self
Tuck Everlasting
as Mae Tuck
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
as Self
Last Call
as Zelda Fitzgerald
In the Bedroom
as Ruth Fowler
Acting 'Carrie'
as Self
Visualizing 'Carrie'
as Self (archive footage)
Midwives
as Sibyl Danforth
Songs In Ordinary Time
as Marie Fermoyle
The Straight Story
as Rose
The Rage: Carrie 2
as Carrie White (archive footage) (uncredited)
Blast from the Past
as Helen
Affliction
as Margie Fogg
The Grass Harp
as Verena Talbo
If These Walls Could Talk
as Barbara Barrows
Beyond the Call
as Pam O'Brien
The Good Old Boys
as Spring Renfro
A Place for Annie
as Susan Lansing
Trading Mom
as Mommy / Mama / Mom / Natasha
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
as Self
A Private Matter
as Sherri Finkbine
Hard Promises
as Christine Ann Coalter
Fonda on Fonda
as Self - The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (archive footage)
JFK
as Liz Garrison
No Poster
The Talking Eggs
as Narrator (voice)
Voices That Care
as Self - Choir Member
The Long Walk Home
as Miriam Thompson
Crimes of the Heart
as Babe Magrath
'night, Mother
as Jessie Cates
Violets Are Blue
as Augusta "Gussie" Sawyer
Marie: A True Story
as Marie Ragghianti
The River
as Mae Garvey
The Man with Two Brains
as Anne Uumellmahaye (uncredited) (voice)
Missing
as Beth Horman
Raggedy Man
as Nita
Heart Beat
as Carolyn Cassady
Coal Miner's Daughter
as Loretta Lynn
Verna: USO Girl
as Verna Vane
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
as Self
3 Women
as Mildred "Pinky" Rose
Welcome to L.A.
as Linda Murray
Carrie
as Carrie
Katherine
as Katherine Alman
Ginger in the Morning
as Ginger Brown
The Migrants
as Wanda Trimpin
Badlands
as Holly Sargis
The Girls of Huntington House
as Sara
Prime Cut
as Poppy
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