Sally Field
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.
Acted in
80 for Brady
2023
as Betty
Spoiler Alert
2022
as Marilyn
The Last Movie Stars
2022
as Self
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
2022
as Jessie Buss
Love Letters
2020
as Melissa Gardner
Dispatches from Elsewhere
2020
as Janice
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
2019
as Kate Keller
Maniac
2018
as Dr. Greta Mantleray
Spielberg
2017
as Self
Little Evil
2017
as Miss Shaylock
Hello, My Name Is Doris
2015
as Doris Miller
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014
as Aunt May
Lincoln
2012
as Mary Todd Lincoln
The Amazing Spider-Man
2012
as Aunt May
Finding Your Roots
2012
as Self
The Desert of Forbidden Art
2011
as Voice
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
2008
as Marina Del Ray (voice)
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007
as Self
Two Weeks
2006
as Anita Bergman
Brothers and Sisters
2006
as Nora Walker
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003
as Rep. Victoria Rudd
The Court
2002
as Justice Kate Nolan
David Copperfield
2001
as Aunt Betsey Trotwood
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
2001
as Self
Say It Isn't So
2001
as Valdine Wingfield
Where the Heart Is
2000
as Mama Lil
A Cooler Climate
1999
as Iris
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
1998
as Self - Host
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
1998
as Self / Host
From the Earth to the Moon
1998
as Trudy Cooper
Merry Christmas, George Bailey!
1997
as Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
1997
as Self
King of the Hill
1997
as Junie Harper (voice)
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996
as Self (archive footage)
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996
as Self
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
1996
as Sassy (voice)
Eye for an Eye
1996
as Karen McCann
A Woman of Independent Means
1995
as Bess Alcott Steed Garner
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
1994
as Self
ER
1994
as Maggie Wyczenski
Forrest Gump
1994
as Mrs. Gump
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994
as Self (archive footage)
A Century of Cinema
1994
as Self
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
as Miranda Hillard
Intimate Portrait
1993
as Self (archive footage)
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
1993
as Sassy (voice)
The Larry Sanders Show
1992
as Sally Field
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991
as Self - Hostess
Soapdish
1991
as Celeste Talbert
Voices That Care
1991
as Self - Choir Member
Not Without My Daughter
1991
as Betty Mahmoody
Steel Magnolias
1989
as M'Lynn Eatenton
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1988
as Self
Punchline
1988
as Lilah Krytsick
Surrender
1987
as Daisy Morgan
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986
as Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)
Murphy's Romance
1985
as Emma Moriarty
Places in the Heart
1984
as Edna Spalding
Kiss Me Goodbye
1982
as Kay
Lily for President?
1982
as Beth Barber
All the Way Home
1981
as Mary Follet
Absence of Malice
1981
as Megan Carter
Back Roads
1981
as Amy Post
Smokey and the Bandit II
1980
as Carrie
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
1979
as Celeste Whitman
Norma Rae
1979
as Norma Rae
Mickey's 50
1978
as Self
Hooper
1978
as Gwen Doyle
The End
1978
as Mary Ellen
Heroes
1977
as Carol Bell
Smokey and the Bandit
1977
as Carrie 'Frog'
Sybil
1976
as Sybil
Sybil
1976
as Sybil
Bridger
1976
as Jennifer Melford
Stay Hungry
1976
as Mary Tate Farnsworth
Home for the Holidays
1974
as Christine Morgan
The Girl with Something Extra
1973
as Sally Burton
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
as Self
Mongo's Back in Town
1971
as Vikki
Marriage: Year One
1971
as Jane Duden
Hitched
1971
as Roselle Bridgeman
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
1971
as Denise "Dennie" Miller
Great Performances
1971
as Self
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Night Gallery
1970
as Irene Evans
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1967
as Self
The Flying Nun
1967
as Sister Bertrille
The Way West
1967
as Mercy McBee
Hollywood Squares
1966
as Self
Occasional Wife
1966
Gidget
1965
as Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self - Presenter
The Emmy Awards
1949
as Self - Presenter
