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