Sissy Spacek
Mary Elizabeth 'Sissy' Spacek (born December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for four British Academy Film Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. Spacek was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011.
Born and raised in Texas, she initially aspired to a career as a recording artist. In 1968, at age 18, she recorded a single, "John, You Went Too Far This Time," under the name Rainbo. She began her professional acting career in the early 1970s, making her debut as an extra in Andy Warhol's Women in Revolt (1971). Her breakout role came with Terrence Malick's influential crime film Badlands (1973), which earned her a nomination for the British Academy Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles. She rose to international prominence with her portrayal of Carrie White in Brian De Palma's horror film Carrie (1976), for which she received her first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. After appearing in the acclaimed films Welcome to L.A. (1976) and Robert Altman's 3 Women (1977), she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn in the biographical musical film Coal Miner's Daughter (1980).
Her other Oscar-nominated roles include Missing (1982), The River (1984), Crimes of the Heart (1986), and In the Bedroom (2001). Her other prominent films include Raggedy Man (1981), JFK (1991), Affliction (1997), The Straight Story (1999), Tuck Everlasting (2002), Nine Lives (2005), North Country (2005), Four Christmases (2008), Get Low (2010), The Help (2011), and The Old Man & the Gun (2018). She received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the television films The Good Old Boys (1995) and Last Call (2002), and for her guest role on the HBO drama series Big Love (2011). She portrayed matriarch Sally Rayburn on the Netflix drama thriller series Bloodline (2015–2017), Ruth Deaver on the Hulu psychological horror series Castle Rock (2018), and Ellen Bergman on the Amazon Prime Video psychological thriller series Homecoming (2018).
She has also ventured into music, and recorded vocals for the soundtrack album of Coal Miner's Daughter, which peaked at number two on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart and garnered her a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. She released a studio album, Hangin' Up My Heart (1983), which was critically well-received and peaked at number 17 on Billboard Top Country Albums chart.
Known for
Die My Love
Pam
Great Performances
Verna Vane
The Waltons
Castle Rock
Ruth Deaver
Big Love
Marilyn Densham
The Oscars
Self
The Straight Story
Rose
The Help
Missus Walters
The Rookies
Crimes of the Heart
Babe Magrath
Bloodline
Sally Rayburn
Dying for Sex
Gail
Ginger in the Morning
Ginger Brown
The Girls of Huntington House
Sara
Carrie
Carrie
A Place for Annie
Susan Lansing
Homecoming
Ellen Bergman
Raggedy Man
Nita
Visualizing 'Carrie'
Self (archive footage)
Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl
Self / Loretta Lynn
Blast from the Past
Helen
Beyond the Call
Pam O'Brien
The Long Walk Home
Miriam Thompson
Get Low
Mattie Darrow
Gray Matters
Dr. Sydney
JFK
Liz Garrison
Acting 'Carrie'
Self
The Grass Harp
Verena Talbo
Four Christmases
Paula
Seitenblicke
self
Night Sky
Irene York
Hot Rod
Marie Powell
Badlands
Holly Sargis
In the Bedroom
Ruth Fowler
Songs In Ordinary Time
Marie Fermoyle
Tuck Everlasting
Mae Tuck
Voices That Care
Self - Choir Member
The Ring Two
Evelyn
Heart Beat
Carolyn Cassady
The River
Mae Garvey
An American Haunting
Lucy Bell
North Country
Alice Aimes
Without Getting Killed or Caught
Narrator / Voice of Susanna Clark (voice)
3 Women
Mildred "Pinky" Rose
Streets of Laredo
Lorena
Deadfall
June
Last Call
Zelda Fitzgerald
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Susan Lansing
The Rage: Carrie 2
Carrie White (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Old Man & the Gun
Jewel
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
Narrator (voice)
Verna: USO Girl
Verna Vane
'night, Mother
Jessie Cates
Nine Lives
Ruth
HyperNormalisation
Self (archive footage)
The Man with Two Brains
Anne Uumellmahaye (uncredited) (voice)
Missing
Beth Horman
Coal Miner's Daughter
Loretta Lynn
Katherine
Katherine Alman
Affliction
Margie Fogg
If These Walls Could Talk
Barbara Barrows
Midwives
Sibyl Danforth
Absence of Malick
Self
Lake City
Maggie
Prime Cut
Poppy
Violets are Blue
Augusta "Gussie" Sawyer
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain
Martha Jefferson Randolph (voice)
Marie: A True Story
Marie Ragghianti
Trading Mom
Mommy / Mama / Mom / Natasha
Sam & Kate
Tina
Welcome to L.A.
Linda Murray
A Home at the End of the World
Alice Glover
A Decade Under the Influence
Self
Pictures of Hollis Woods
Josie Cahill
The Migrants
Wanda Trimpin
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Self
The Good Old Boys
Spring Renfro
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
Self
A Private Matter
Sherri Finkbine
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
Self
Hard Promises
Christine Ann Coalter
Fonda on Fonda
Self - The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (archive footage)
River of Gold
Narrator
The Talking Eggs
Narrator (voice)
Making Badlands
Self
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
The View
Self
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
Off Camera with Sam Jones
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest
GQ Presents: Iconic Characters
Self
Inside the Actors Studio
Self