Sally Field
Acting
Born: November 6, 1946 (age 79) · Pasadena, California, USA
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
Forrest Gump
1994
The Amazing Spider-Man
2012
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
Lincoln
2012
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
1993
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
2008
Maniac
2018
Little Evil
2017
ER
1994
Smokey and the Bandit
1977
Photos (6)
Movies (54)
Forrest Gump
Mrs. Gump
The Amazing Spider-Man
Aunt May
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Aunt May
Mrs. Doubtfire
Miranda Hillard
Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Victoria Rudd
80 for Brady
Betty
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Tova Sullivan
Steel Magnolias
M'Lynn Eatenton
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Sassy (voice)
Not Without My Daughter
Betty Mahmoody
Where the Heart Is
Mama Lil
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
Sassy (voice)
Places in the Heart
Edna Spalding
Hello, My Name Is Doris
Doris Miller
Say It Isn't So
Valdine Wingfield
The Way West
Mercy McBee
Absence of Malice
Megan Carter
Smokey and the Bandit
Carrie
Punchline
Lilah Krytsick
Back Roads
Amy Post
Hooper
Gwen Doyle
Spoiler Alert
Marilyn
Murphy's Romance
Emma Moriarty
Eye for an Eye
Karen McCann
Stay Hungry
Mary Tate Farnsworth
Little Evil
Miss Shaylock
Smokey and the Bandit II
Carrie
Soapdish
Celeste Talbert
Norma Rae
Norma Rae
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
Celeste Whitman
Kiss Me Goodbye
Kay
Home for the Holidays
Christine Morgan
Surrender
Daisy Morgan
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
Denise "Dennie" Miller
Heroes
Carol Bell
Lily for President?
Beth Barber
Moon Pilot
Beatnik Girl in Lineup (uncredited)
Two Weeks
Anita Bergman
Mongo's Back in Town
Vikki
Merry Christmas, George Bailey
Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
The End
Mary Ellen
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
Kate Keller
All the Way Home
Mary Follet
Saturday Night Live: Christmas
Mom (archive footage)
David Copperfield
Betsey Trotwood
Bridger
Jennifer Melford
The Desert of Forbidden Art
Voice
Love Letters
Melissa Gardner
Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story
2010
A Cooler Climate
Iris
Marriage: Year One
Jane Duden
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
Marina Del Ray (voice)
Hitched
Roselle Bridgeman
TV Shows (21)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
1 eps
King of the Hill
Junie Harper (voice) · 1 eps
ER
Maggie Wyczenski · 11 eps
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
3 eps
Brothers and Sisters
Nora Walker · 109 eps
The Larry Sanders Show
Sally Field · 1 eps
Night Gallery
Irene Evans · 1 eps
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Jessie Buss · 10 eps
Alias Smith and Jones
2 eps
The Flying Nun
Sister Bertrille · 82 eps
From the Earth to the Moon
Trudy Cooper · 1 eps
Maniac
Dr. Greta Mantleray · 10 eps
The Dating Game
Sally Field · 1 eps
Dispatches from Elsewhere
Janice · 10 eps
Gidget
Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence · 32 eps
Occasional Wife
1 eps
The Girl with Something Extra
Sally Burton · 22 eps
Sybil
Sybil · 2 eps
A Woman of Independent Means
Bess Alcott Steed Garner · 3 eps
The Court
Justice Kate Nolan · 6 eps
David Copperfield
Betsey Trotwood · 2 eps
Self / Appearances (60)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest · 4 eps
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · 1 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self · 2 eps
The Mike Douglas Show
Self · 1 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host · 1 eps
The View
Self - Guest · 3 eps
The View
Self · 1 eps
The Graham Norton Show
Self · 2 eps
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self · 2 eps
The Merv Griffin Show
Self · 1 eps
Great Performances
Self · 1 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee · 4 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Self - Winner · 1 eps
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self · 2 eps
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter · 1 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee · 1 eps
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self · 1 eps
Intimate Portrait
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
Chelsea
Self · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 2 eps
Finding Your Roots
Self · 2 eps
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self · 1 eps
Hollywood Squares
Self · 5 eps
Ciné regards
Self · 1 eps
The Wonderful World of Disney
Self · 1 eps
Marty, Life Is Short
Self (archive footage)
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
Self · 1 eps
The Directors
Self · 1 eps
The Last Movie Stars
Self · 4 eps
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self · 1 eps
The Emmy Awards
Self - Presenter · 1 eps
The Emmy Awards
Self · 1 eps
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
Self · 1 eps
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
Self (archive footage)
Spielberg
Self
Dolly Parton: An American Original – Special Edition of 20/20
Self (archive footage)
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Self (archive footage)
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
Self - Host · 3 eps
Talking Pictures: A Movie Memories Podcast
Self · 1 eps
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
Self
A Century of Cinema
Self
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Self (archive footage)
Inside the Actors Studio
Self · 1 eps
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)
I Am Burt Reynolds
Self (archive)
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Self - Hostess
Voices That Care
Self - Choir Member
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Self
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Self
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Self
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
Self / Host
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
Self (Archive)
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
Self
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
Self
The Greatest Stuntman Alive
Herself
Mickey's 50
Self
