
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.
Acting (70 movies)

Forrest Gump
1994

Spoiler Alert
2022

80 for Brady
2023

Mrs. Doubtfire
1993

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003

Steel Magnolias
1989

Stay Hungry
1976

Say It Isn't So
2001

Smokey and the Bandit
1977

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
1993

Home for the Holidays
1974

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
1979

Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
1996

Soapdish
1991

Not Without My Daughter
1991

Smokey and the Bandit II
1980

Murphy's Romance
1985

The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
2008

Places in the Heart
1984

Norma Rae
1979

Punchline
1988

The End
1978

The Way West
1967

Back Roads
1981

Hooper
1978

Voices That Care
1991

Two Weeks
2006

Eye for an Eye
1996

Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
1997

Absence of Malice
1981

Kiss Me Goodbye
1982

Lincoln
2012

Heroes
1977

Lily for President?
1982

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996

The Desert of Forbidden Art
2011

The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014

David Copperfield
2001

Surrender
1987

A Cooler Climate
1999

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
1998

Mongo's Back in Town
1971

Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
1971

Hitched
1973

Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
1994

The Amazing Spider-Man
2012

Where the Heart Is
2000

Merry Christmas, George Bailey!
1997

Hello, My Name Is Doris
2015

Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986

All the Way Home
1981

Marriage: Year One
1971

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991

Little Evil
2017

Spielberg
2017

The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996

National Theatre Live: All My Sons
2019

The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
2001

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987

Mickey's 50
1978

A Century of Cinema
1994

Bridger
1976

Love Letters
2020

The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994

Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
2012

Moon Pilot
1962

The Greatest Stuntman Alive
1978

Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story
2010

Sybil
1976
Directing (2 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Dying Young | 1991 | Producer |
| The Christmas Tree | 1996 | Executive Producer |

