Sally Field
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1946-11-06
Place of Birth
Pasadena, California, USA
Sally Field
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 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.
Also Known For
Forrest Gump
Jun 23, 1994
Spoiler Alert
Dec 02, 2022
80 for Brady
Feb 03, 2023
Mrs. Doubtfire
Nov 24, 1993
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Jul 02, 2003
Steel Magnolias
Nov 15, 1989
Stay Hungry
Apr 23, 1976
Say It Isn't So
Mar 10, 2001
Smokey and the Bandit
May 27, 1977
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Feb 03, 1993
Home for the Holidays
Jul 13, 1974
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
May 18, 1979
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
Mar 08, 1996
Soapdish
May 31, 1991
Not Without My Daughter
Jan 11, 1991
Smokey and the Bandit II
Aug 15, 1980
Murphy's Romance
Dec 25, 1985
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
Aug 25, 2008
Places in the Heart
Sep 11, 1984
Norma Rae
Mar 02, 1979
Punchline
Oct 07, 1988
The End
May 10, 1978
The Way West
May 24, 1967
Back Roads
Mar 13, 1981
Hooper
Jul 28, 1978
Voices That Care
Feb 28, 1991
Two Weeks
Oct 20, 2006
Eye for an Eye
Jan 12, 1996
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
Jul 23, 1997
Absence of Malice
Nov 19, 1981
Kiss Me Goodbye
Dec 22, 1982
Lincoln
Nov 09, 2012
Heroes
Nov 04, 1977
Lily for President?
May 20, 1982
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
May 19, 1996
The Desert of Forbidden Art
Mar 18, 2011
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Apr 16, 2014
David Copperfield
Dec 25, 2001
Surrender
Oct 09, 1987
A Cooler Climate
Aug 22, 1999
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
Jun 16, 1998
Mongo's Back in Town
Dec 10, 1971
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
Feb 16, 1971
Hitched
Mar 31, 1973
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Oct 01, 1994
The Amazing Spider-Man
Jun 23, 2012
Where the Heart Is
Apr 27, 2000
Merry Christmas, George Bailey
Dec 25, 1997
Hello, My Name Is Doris
Nov 27, 2015
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Dec 27, 1986
All the Way Home
Dec 21, 1981
Marriage: Year One
Oct 15, 1971
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Jul 15, 1991
Little Evil
Aug 08, 2017
Spielberg
Oct 05, 2017
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Mar 17, 1996
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
May 14, 2019
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
Jun 13, 2001
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Mar 13, 1987
Mickey's 50
Nov 19, 1978
A Century of Cinema
Jan 01, 1994
Bridger
Sep 10, 1976
Love Letters
May 21, 2020
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Jan 01, 2007
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
May 18, 1994
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Jun 26, 1989
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
Nov 09, 2012
Moon Pilot
Apr 05, 1962
The Greatest Stuntman Alive
Jan 01, 1978
Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story
Apr 01, 2010
Brothers & Sisters: Family Album
Sep 23, 2007
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
Dec 30, 2015
Inside the Actors Studio
Aug 14, 1994
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Sep 08, 2003
The Tony Danza Show
Sep 13, 2004
Brothers and Sisters
Sep 24, 2006
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jan 26, 2003
Gidget
Sep 15, 1965
The Flying Nun
Sep 07, 1967
King of the Hill
Jan 12, 1997
The View
Aug 11, 1997
Alias Smith and Jones
Jan 05, 1971
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
May 25, 1992
Finding Your Roots
Mar 24, 2012
Night Gallery
Dec 16, 1970
The Girl with Something Extra
Sep 14, 1973
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Jan 22, 1968
Intimate Portrait
Nov 14, 1993
Maniac
Sep 21, 2018
Occasional Wife
Sep 13, 1966
The Court
Mar 26, 2002
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
The Larry Sanders Show
Aug 15, 1992
From the Earth to the Moon
Apr 05, 1998
Sybil
Nov 14, 1976
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
ER
Sep 19, 1994
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Mar 23, 2015
Chelsea
May 11, 2016
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Mar 06, 2022
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Apr 02, 1973
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Sep 09, 2019
The Mike Douglas Show
Dec 11, 1961
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Jul 16, 2009
The Last Movie Stars
Jul 21, 2022
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Oct 01, 1962
The Emmy Awards
Jan 25, 1949
Dispatches from Elsewhere
Mar 01, 2020
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
A Woman of Independent Means
Feb 19, 1995
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
The Dick Cavett Show
Jun 06, 1968
The Wonderful World of Disney
Oct 27, 1954
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
Jun 23, 1998
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
Jan 04, 2008
Hollywood Squares
Oct 17, 1966
Great Performances
Jan 28, 1971
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Dec 21, 2014
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Jan 22, 1968
The Directors
Jan 01, 1999
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
The Merv Griffin Show
Oct 01, 1962