
Sally Field
Known for ActingBorn 1946-11-06 (age 79)Pasadena, California, USA
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.Read more
Movies & web series
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The Court
2002 · Series
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The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996 · Movie
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A Woman of Independent Means
1995 · Series
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Bridger
1976 · Movie
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Remarkably Bright Creatures
2026 · Movie
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Mickey's 50
1978 · Movie
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National Theatre Live: All My Sons
2019 · Movie
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Voices That Care
1991 · Movie
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Marty, Life Is Short
2026 · Movie
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
1998 · Series
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Forrest Gump
1994 · Movie
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A Century of Cinema
1994 · Movie
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From the Earth to the Moon
1998 · Series
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The Girl with Something Extra
1973 · Series
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
1998 · Movie
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Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
2022 · Series
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ER
1994 · Series
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Spielberg
2017 · Movie
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Occasional Wife
1966 · Series
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The Larry Sanders Show
1992 · Series
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Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
2008 · Series
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Maniac
2018 · Series
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Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · Series
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Hollywood Squares
1966 · Series
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Night Gallery
1970 · Series
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Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
1994 · Movie
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Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986 · Movie
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The Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · Series
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Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
2012 · Movie
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The Emmy Awards
1949 · Series
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King of the Hill
1997 · Series
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I Am Burt Reynolds
2020 · Movie
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The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Series
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Spoiler Alert
2022 · Movie
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Sybil
1976 · Series
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The Last Movie Stars
2022 · Series
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Brothers and Sisters
2006 · Series
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Series
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Mrs. Doubtfire
1993 · Movie
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Where the Heart Is
2000 · Movie
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Steel Magnolias
1989 · Movie
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Hitched
1973 · Movie
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Places in the Heart
1984 · Movie
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Norma Rae
1979 · Movie
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Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994 · Movie
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Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
1993 · Movie
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Lincoln
2012 · Movie
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Dispatches from Elsewhere
2020 · Series