Sally Field is an American actress and director. She is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and she has been nominated for a Tony Award and two BAFTA Awards.

Field began her professional career on television, starring in the short-lived comedies Gidget (1965–1966), The Flying Nun (1967–1970), and The Girl with Something Extra (1973–1974). In 1976, she garnered critical acclaim for her performance in the miniseries 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), but it escalated during the 1970s with starring roles including Stay Hungry (1976), Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Heroes (1977), The End (1978), and Hooper (1978). Her career further expanded during the 1980s, receiving the Academy Award for Best Actress for both 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), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), and Forrest Gump (1994).

In the 2000s, she 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?. From 2006 to 2011, she portrayed Nora Walker on the ABC television drama Brothers & Sisters, for which she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2007. She starred as Mary Todd Lincoln in Lincoln (2012), for which she received a nomination 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' The Glass Menagerie for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.

As a director, Field is known for the television film The Christmas Tree (1996), an episode of the 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, and the feature film Beautiful (2000). In 2014, she was presented with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 2019 received the Kennedy Center Honors.

Filmography

Film Year Title Role Notes 1962 Moon Pilot Beatnik Girl In Lineup Uncredited 1967 The Way West Mercy McBee 1976 Stay Hungry Mary Tate Farnsworth 1977 Smokey and the Bandit Carrie "Frog" Heroes Carol Bell 1978 The End Mary Ellen Hooper Gwen Doyle 1979 Norma Rae Norma Rae Webster Academy Award for Best Actress Beyond the Poseidon Adventure Celeste Whitman 1980 Smokey and the Bandit II Carrie "Frog" 1981 Back Roads Amy Post Absence of Malice Megan Carter 1982 Kiss Me Goodbye Kay Villano 1984 Places in the Heart Edna Spalding Academy Award for Best Actress 1985 Murphy's Romance Emma Moriarty 1987 Surrender Daisy Morgan 1988 Punchline Lilah Krytsick 1989 Steel Magnolias M'Lynn Eatenton 1991 Not Without My Daughter Betty Mahmoody Soapdish Celeste Talbert / Maggie 1993 Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey Sassy Voice Mrs. Doubtfire Miranda Hillard 1994 A Century of Cinema Herself Documentary Forrest Gump Mrs. Gump 1996 Eye for an Eye Karen McCann Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco Sassy Voice 2000 Where the Heart Is Mama Lil Beautiful Trixie Director 2001 Say It Isn't So Valdine Wingfield 2003 Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde Victoria Rudd 2005 Going Through Splat: The Life and Work of Stewart Stern Herself Documentary 2006 Two Weeks Anita Bergman 2008 The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning Marina Del Rey Voice 2012The Amazing Spider-ManAunt May Parker Lincoln Mary Todd Lincoln Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress 2014 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Aunt May Parker 2015 Hello, My Name Is Doris Doris Miller 2017 Little Evil Miss Shaylock 2019 National Theatre Live: All My Sons Kate Keller Theatrical live presentation of UK stage production 2022 Spoiler Alert Marilyn Cowan 2023 80 for Brady Betty 2026 Remarkably Bright Creatures Tova Sullivan

Television Year Title Role Notes 1965–1966 Gidget Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence Main cast, 32 episodes 1966 Occasional Wife Nancy Zogerdorfer Episode: "No Talent Scouts" 1967 Hey, Landlord Bonnie Banner Recurring role, 4 episodes 1967–1970 The Flying Nun Sister Bertrille / Elsie Ethrington Main cast, 82 episodes 1970 Bracken's World Jenny Marsh Episode: "Jenny, Who Bombs Buildings" 1971–1972 Alias Smith and Jones Clementine Hale Recurring role, 2 episodes 1971 Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring Denise "Dennie" Miller Television film Hitched Roselle Bridgeman Marcus Welby, M.D. Jan Wilkins / June Wilkins Episode: "I Can Hardly Tell You Apart" Marriage: Year One Jane Duden Television film Mongo's Back in Town Vikki 1972 Home for the Holidays Christine "Chris" Morgan 1973 Night Gallery Irene Evans Episode: "Whisper" 1973–1974The Girl with Something Extra Sally Burton Main cast, 22 episodes 1976 Bridger Jennifer Melford Television film Sybil Sybil Dorsett 1979 Carol Burnett & Company Herself Episode #1.4 1981 All the Way Home Mary Follet Television film (live broadcast of stage production) 1982 Lily for President? Beth Barber Television special 1993 Saturday Night Live Herself (host) Episode: "Sally Field/Tony! Toni! Toné!" 1995 A Woman of Independent Means Bess Alcott Steed Garner Television miniseries, 3 episodes 1996The Larry Sanders Show Herself Episode: "Where Is the Love?" The Christmas Tree Claire Television film, director and co-writer 1997 King of the Hill Junie Harper Voice, episode: "Hilloween" Merry Christmas, George Bailey Mrs. Bailey / Narrator Television film 1998 Murphy Brown Kathleen Dubek, Secretary #91 Episode: "Opus One"From the Earth to the Moon Trudy Cooper Television miniseries, 1 episode; also director (1 episode) 1999 A Cooler Climate Iris Prue Television film 2000 David Copperfield Betsey Trotwood 2000–2006 ER Maggie Wyczenski Recurring role, 12 episodes 2002 The Court Justice Kate Nolan Main cast, 6 episodes 2005 Conviction Television film 2006–2011 Brothers & Sisters Nora Walker Main cast, 109 episodes 2017 Spielberg Herself (interview) Television documentary 2018 Maniac Dr. Greta Mantleray Television miniseries 2020 Dispatches from Elsewhere Janice Foster Main cast, 10 episodes 2022 Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty Jessie Buss Main cast (Season 1), 9 episodes The Last Movie Stars Herself (interview) 4 episodes

Stage Year Title Role Theatre 1974 6 Rms Riv Vu Ann Miller Kenley Players 1979 Vanities Mary Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre 2002 The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? Stevie Gray John Golden Theatre 2004 The Glass Menagerie Amanda Wingfield The Kennedy Center 2017 Belasco Theatre 2019 All My Sons Kate Keller The Old Vic

Discography Singles "Felicidad" (Billboard No. 94, Cashbox No. 91) / "Find Yourself a Rainbow" – Colgems 1008 – August 1967 "Follow the Star" (Both sides, promo only) – Colgems 107 – December 1967 "Golden Days" / "You're a Grand Old Flag" – Colgems 1014 – January 1968 "Gonna Build a Mountain" / "Months of the Year" (also features Flying Nun stars Madeleine Sherwood and Marge Redmond) – Colgems 1030 – September 1968

Album Star of The Flying Nun—Colgems COM-106 (Mono) / COS-106 (Stereo) – Billboard No. 172, December 1967

References

External links Sally Field at the Internet Movie Database Sally Field at the Internet Broadway Database