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Sally Field

Sally Field

Acting
Born: Nov 06, 1946
From: Pasadena, California, USA
Credits: 30 titles

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 …

Filmography

Title Character Year Rating
80 for Brady Betty 2023 6.186
Spoiler Alert Marilyn 2022 7.0
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning Marina Del Ray (voice) 2008 6.687
Two Weeks Anita Bergman 2006 6.086
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde Victoria Rudd 2003 5.714
Say It Isn't So Valdine Wingfield 2001 4.718
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man Self 1997
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco Sassy (voice) 1996 6.623
Eye for an Eye Karen McCann 1996 6.255
Forrest Gump Mrs. Gump 1994 8.464
Mrs. Doubtfire Miranda Hillard 1993 7.195
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey Sassy (voice) 1993 6.99
Soapdish Celeste Talbert 1991 6.279
Not Without My Daughter Betty Mahmoody 1991 6.696
Voices That Care Self - Choir Member 1991 8.667
Steel Magnolias M'Lynn Eatenton 1989 7.2
Punchline Lilah Krytsick 1988 5.507
Murphy's Romance Emma Moriarty 1985 6.137
Places in the Heart Edna Spalding 1984 7.2
Back Roads Amy Post 1981 5.446
Absence of Malice Megan Carter 1981 6.636
Smokey and the Bandit II Carrie 1980 5.551
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure Celeste Whitman 1979 5.088
Norma Rae Norma Rae 1979 7.214
The End Mary Ellen 1978 5.604
Hooper Gwen Doyle 1978 6.296
Smokey and the Bandit Carrie 'Frog' 1977 6.974
Stay Hungry Mary Tate Farnsworth 1976 5.697
Home for the Holidays Christine Morgan 1974 5.5
The Way West Mercy McBee 1967 6.127
Quick Facts
Known forActing
Credits30
Born1946
FromPasadena, California, USA