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Sally Field

Sally Field

Actor · b. 1946 · 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.

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  • Movie8.5

    Forrest Gump

    1994 · 30K votes

  • Movie6.8

    The Amazing Spider-Man

    2012 · 19K votes

  • Movie6.6

    The Amazing Spider-Man 2

    2014 · 14K votes

  • Movie8.4
  • Movie7.2

    Mrs. Doubtfire

    1993 · 6.8K votes

  • Movie5.7
  • Movie6.8

    Lincoln

    2012 · 4.1K votes

  • Movie7.2

    Steel Magnolias

    1989 · 768 votes

  • Movie6.2

    80 for Brady

    2023 · 201 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Smokey and the Bandit

    1977 · 834 votes

  • Movie8.0

    Marty, Life Is Short

    2026 · 33 votes

  • Movie7.1

    Where the Heart Is

    2000 · 765 votes

  • Movie7.0
  • Movie6.6
  • Movie5.6

    Smokey and the Bandit II

    1980 · 326 votes

  • Movie7.2

    Places in the Heart

    1984 · 203 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Not Without My Daughter

    1991 · 368 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Eye for an Eye

    1996 · 491 votes

  • Movie6.8
  • Movie7.0

    Spoiler Alert

    2022 · 181 votes

  • Movie4.8

    Say It Isn't So

    2001 · 186 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Hello, My Name Is Doris

    2015 · 524 votes

  • Movie6.1

    The Way West

    1967 · 112 votes

  • Movie5.0

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  • TV7.5
  • TV6.1
  • TV5.0
  • TV5.1
  • TV6.2

    The Kelly Clarkson Show

    2019 · 73 votes

  • TV4.3

    The View

    1997 · 113 votes

  • TV6.9

    Saturday Night Live

    1975 · 528 votes

  • TV5.8

    The Mike Douglas Show

    1961 · 11 votes

  • TV7.2

    The Graham Norton Show

    2007 · 290 votes

  • TV5.3

    Jimmy Kimmel Live!

    2003 · 217 votes

  • TV7.4

    King of the Hill

    1997 · 700 votes

  • TV7.0

    Golden Globe Awards

    1944 · 20 votes

  • TV5.4
  • TV7.8

    ER

    1994 · 968 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Merv Griffin Show

    1962 · 12 votes

  • TV6.1

    Great Performances

    1971 · 25 votes

  • TV5.6

    The Ellen DeGeneres Show

    2003 · 179 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Dick Cavett Show

    1968 · 22 votes

  • TV
  • TV7.1

    Brothers and Sisters

    2006 · 202 votes

  • TV4.2
  • TV4.5

    Intimate Portrait

    1993 · 5 votes

  • TV6.4

    The Tony Danza Show

    2004 · 8 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Oscars

    1953 · 84 votes