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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Remarkably Bright Creatures | Tova Sullivan | 2026-05-07 |
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Marty, Life Is Short | Self (archive footage) | 2026-05-11 |
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80 for Brady | Betty | 2023-02-03 |
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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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I Am Burt Reynolds | Self (archive) | 2020-12-17 |
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National Theatre Live: All My Sons | Kate Keller | 2019-05-14 |
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Spielberg | Self | 2017-10-05 |
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Little Evil | Miss Shaylock | 2017-08-08 |
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Hello, My Name Is Doris | Doris Miller | 2015-11-27 |
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Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire | Self (Archive) | 2015-12-30 |
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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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Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn | Self | 2012-11-09 |
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Lincoln | Mary Todd Lincoln | 2012-11-09 |
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The Desert of Forbidden Art | Voice | 2011-03-18 |
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Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story | 2010-04-01 | |
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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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Brothers & Sisters: Family Album | Self/Nora Walker | 2007-09-23 |
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Two Weeks | Anita Bergman | 2006-10-20 |
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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | Carrie 'Frog' (uncredited/archive footage) | 2004-06-28 |
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Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde | Victoria Rudd | 2003-07-02 |
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The Story Behind "Absence of Malice" | Self | 2001-06-13 |
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David Copperfield | Betsey Trotwood | 2001-12-25 |
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Say It Isn't So | Valdine Wingfield | 2001-03-10 |
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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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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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Eye for an Eye | Karen McCann | 1996-01-12 |
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A Century of Cinema | Self | 1994-01-01 |
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Forrest Gump | Mrs. Gump | 1994-06-23 |
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Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump | Self | 1994-07-03 |
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Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! | Self (archive footage) | 1994-05-18 |
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Mrs. Doubtfire | Miranda Hillard | 1993-11-24 |
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Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey | Sassy (voice) | 1993-02-03 |
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Soapdish | Celeste Talbert | 1991-05-31 |
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Voices That Care | Self - Choir Member | 1991-02-28 |
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Not Without My Daughter | Betty Mahmoody | 1991-01-11 |
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Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire | Self - Hostess | 1991-07-15 |
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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 | Self (voice) | 1989-06-26 |
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Punchline | Lilah Krytsick | 1988-10-07 |
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Surrender | Daisy Morgan | 1987-10-09 |
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Self | 1987-03-13 |
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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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Lily for President? | Beth Barber | 1982-05-20 |
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Kiss Me Goodbye | Kay | 1982-12-22 |
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All the Way Home | Mary Follet | 1981-12-21 |
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Back Roads | Amy Post | 1981-03-13 |
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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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Norma Rae | Norma Rae | 1979-03-02 |
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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure | Celeste Whitman | 1979-05-18 |
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Hooper | Gwen Doyle | 1978-07-28 |
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The Greatest Stuntman Alive | Herself | 1978-01-01 |
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The End | Mary Ellen | 1978-05-10 |
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Mickey's 50 | Self | 1978-11-19 |
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Heroes | Carol Bell | 1977-11-04 |
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Smokey and the Bandit | Carrie 'Frog' | 1977-05-27 |
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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 | 1973-03-31 |
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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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Mongo's Back in Town | Vikki | 1971-12-10 |
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The Way West | Mercy McBee | 1967-05-24 |
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Moon Pilot | Beatnik Girl in Lineup (uncredited) | 1962-04-05 |
