1946-11-06 Pasadena, California, USA
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.
80 for Brady | Betty | 2023-02-03 | |
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home | Self (archive footage) | 2022-05-03 | |
Spoiler Alert | Marilyn | 2022-12-02 | |
Love Letters | Melissa Gardner | 2020-05-21 | |
National Theatre Live: All My Sons | Kate Keller | 2019-05-14 | |
Spielberg | Self | 2017-10-05 | |
Little Evil | Miss Shaylock | 2017-08-08 | |
Hello, My Name Is Doris | Doris Miller | 2015-11-27 | |
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | Aunt May | 2014-04-16 | |
The Amazing Spider-Man | Aunt May | 2012-06-23 | |
Lincoln | Mary Todd Lincoln | 2012-11-09 | |
The Desert of Forbidden Art | Voice | 2011-03-18 | |
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning | Marina Del Ray (voice) | 2008-08-25 | |
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo | Self | 2007-01-01 | |
Two Weeks | Anita Bergman | 2006-01-01 | |
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde | Rep. Victoria Rudd | 2003-07-02 | |
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice" | Self | 2001-06-13 | |
David Copperfield | Aunt Betsey Trotwood | 2001-12-25 | |
Say It Isn't So | Valdine Wingfield | 2001-03-10 | |
Where the Heart Is | Mama Lil | 2000-04-27 | |
A Cooler Climate | Iris | 1999-08-22 | |
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies | Self / Host | 1998-06-16 | |
Merry Christmas, George Bailey! | Mrs. Bailey / Narrator | 1997-12-25 | |
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man | Self | 1997-07-23 | |
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco | Sassy (voice) | 1996-03-08 | |
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels | Self (archive footage) | 1996-05-19 | |
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful | Self | 1996-03-17 | |
Eye for an Eye | Karen McCann | 1996-01-12 | |
Forrest Gump | Mrs. Gump | 1994-06-23 | |
A Century of Cinema | Self | 1994-01-01 | |
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump | Self | 1994-10-01 | |
Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! | Self (archive footage) | 1994-05-18 | |
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey | Sassy (voice) | 1993-02-03 | |
Mrs. Doubtfire | Miranda Hillard | 1993-11-24 | |
Soapdish | Celeste Talbert | 1991-05-31 | |
Not Without My Daughter | Betty Mahmoody | 1991-01-11 | |
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire | Self - Hostess | 1991-07-15 | |
Voices That Care | Self - Choir Member | 1990-02-28 | |
Steel Magnolias | M'Lynn Eatenton | 1989-11-15 | |
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Self | 1988-11-22 | |
Punchline | Lilah Krytsick | 1988-10-07 | |
Surrender | Daisy Morgan | 1987-10-09 | |
Barbra Streisand: One Voice | Self - Audience Member (Uncredited) | 1986-12-27 | |
Murphy's Romance | Emma Moriarty | 1985-12-25 | |
Places in the Heart | Edna Spalding | 1984-09-11 | |
Lily for President? | Beth Barber | 1982-05-20 | |
Kiss Me Goodbye | Kay | 1982-12-22 | |
Absence of Malice | Megan Carter | 1981-11-19 | |
Back Roads | Amy Post | 1981-03-13 | |
All the Way Home | Mary Follet | 1981-12-21 | |
Smokey and the Bandit II | Carrie | 1980-08-15 | |
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure | Celeste Whitman | 1979-05-18 | |
Norma Rae | Norma Rae | 1979-03-02 | |
The End | Mary Ellen | 1978-05-10 | |
Mickey's 50 | Self | 1978-11-19 | |
Hooper | Gwen Doyle | 1978-07-28 | |
Smokey and the Bandit | Carrie 'Frog' | 1977-05-26 | |
Heroes | Carol Bell | 1977-11-04 | |
Bridger | Jennifer Melford | 1976-09-10 | |
Stay Hungry | Mary Tate Farnsworth | 1976-04-23 | |
Home for the Holidays | Christine Morgan | 1974-07-13 | |
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring | Denise "Dennie" Miller | 1971-02-16 | |
Mongo's Back in Town | Vikki | 1971-12-10 | |
Hitched | Roselle Bridgeman | 1971-03-31 | |
Marriage: Year One | Jane Duden | 1971-10-15 | |
The Way West | Mercy McBee | 1967-05-24 |