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.
Known for
King of the Hill
Junie Harper (voice)
ER
Maggie Wyczenski
Forrest Gump
Mrs. Gump
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Self - Winner
Great Performances
Self
Mrs. Doubtfire
Miranda Hillard
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
The Amazing Spider-Man
Aunt May
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Aunt May
Brothers and Sisters
Nora Walker
Intimate Portrait
Self (archive footage)
Two Weeks
Anita Bergman
Stay Hungry
Mary Tate Farnsworth
The Oscars
Self
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
Sassy (voice)
Norma Rae
Norma Rae
Heroes
Carol Bell
Little Evil
Miss Shaylock
Night Gallery
Irene Evans
Smokey and the Bandit
Carrie 'Frog'
Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln
The Larry Sanders Show
Sally Field
Surrender
Daisy Morgan
Spielberg
Self
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Sassy (voice)
Finding Your Roots
Self
The End
Mary Ellen
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Not Without My Daughter
Betty Mahmoody
Alias Smith and Jones
Where the Heart Is
Mama Lil
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Jessie Buss
Eye for an Eye
Karen McCann
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Self (archive footage)
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Victoria Rudd
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
Celeste Whitman
Say It Isn't So
Valdine Wingfield
The Way West
Mercy McBee
Places in the Heart
Edna Spalding
Hooper
Gwen Doyle
From the Earth to the Moon
Trudy Cooper
The Flying Nun
Sister Bertrille
Maniac
Dr. Greta Mantleray
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Self - Hostess
Smokey and the Bandit II
Carrie
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Self (voice)
Murphy's Romance
Emma Moriarty
Absence of Malice
Megan Carter
Punchline
Lilah Krytsick
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self
Voices That Care
Self - Choir Member
Soapdish
Celeste Talbert
Back Roads
Amy Post
80 for Brady
Betty
Home for the Holidays
Christine Morgan
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
Denise "Dennie" Miller
Hitched
Roselle Bridgeman
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
Kate Keller
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Self
Merry Christmas, George Bailey!
Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
Gidget
Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence
Steel Magnolias
M'Lynn Eatenton
Mickey's 50
Self
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
Self - Host
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
The Directors
Self
Kiss Me Goodbye
Kay
Mongo's Back in Town
Vikki
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Tova
The Emmy Awards
Self - Presenter
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
Self
All the Way Home
Mary Follet
The Last Movie Stars
Self
A Cooler Climate
Iris
Sybil
Sybil
Dispatches from Elsewhere
Janice
The Wonderful World of Disney
Self
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Self (archive footage)
A Century of Cinema
Self
Hollywood Squares
Self
Occasional Wife
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
Self
Brothers & Sisters: Family Album
Self/Nora Walker
Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story
The Court
Justice Kate Nolan
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
Self / Host
Hello, My Name Is Doris
Doris Miller
The Girl with Something Extra
Sally Burton
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)
Spoiler Alert
Marilyn
Marriage: Year One
Jane Duden
A Woman of Independent Means
Bess Alcott Steed Garner
Moon Pilot
Beatnik Girl in Lineup (uncredited)
The Desert of Forbidden Art
Voice
Bridger
Jennifer Melford
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Self
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
Self
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
Self (Archive)
David Copperfield
Betsey Trotwood
Lily for President?
Beth Barber
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Self
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
Marina Del Ray (voice)
Love Letters
Melissa Gardner
The Greatest Stuntman Alive
Herself
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
The Graham Norton Show
Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
The View
Self
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
Chelsea
Self
The Tony Danza Show
Self
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
Self
Inside the Actors Studio
Self