Sally Field in a 1971 promotional photograph for the television series Alias Smith and Jones.

Sally Field (born November 6, 1946) 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"
1977 Heroes Carol Bell
1978 The End Mary Ellen
1978 Hooper Gwen Doyle
1979 Norma Rae Norma Rae Webster Academy Award for Best Actress
1979 Beyond the Poseidon Adventure Celeste Whitman
1980 Smokey and the Bandit II Carrie "Frog"
1981 Back Roads Amy Post
1981 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
1991 Soapdish Celeste Talbert / Maggie
1993 Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey Sassy Voice
1993 Mrs. Doubtfire Miranda Hillard
1994 A Century of Cinema Herself Documentary
1994 Forrest Gump Mrs. Gump
1996 Eye for an Eye Karen McCann
1996 Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco Sassy Voice
2000 Where the Heart Is Mama Lil
2000 Beautiful — 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
2012 The Amazing Spider-Man Aunt May Parker
2012 Lincoln Mary Todd Lincoln Nominated–Academy Award 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

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1965–1966 Gidget Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence Main cast, 32 episodes
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
1971 Hitched Roselle Bridgeman Television film
1971 Marcus Welby, M.D. Jan Wilkins / June Wilkins Episode: "I Can Hardly Tell You Apart"
1971 Marriage: Year One Jane Duden Television film
1971 Mongo's Back in Town Vikki Television film
1972 Home for the Holidays Christine "Chris" Morgan Television film
1973 Night Gallery Irene Evans Episode: "Whisper"
1973–1974 The Girl with Something Extra Sally Burton Main cast, 22 episodes
1976 Bridger Jennifer Melford Television film
1976 Sybil Sybil Dorsett Television film
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
1996 The Larry Sanders Show Herself Episode: "Where Is the Love?"
1996 The Christmas Tree — Television film, director and co-writer
1997 King of the Hill Junie Harper Voice, episode: "Hilloween"
1997 Merry Christmas, George Bailey Mrs. Bailey / Narrator Television film
1998 Murphy Brown Kathleen Dubek, Secretary #91 Episode: "Opus One"
1998 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 Television film
2000–2006 ER Maggie Wyczenski Recurring role, 12 episodes
2002 The Court Justice Kate Nolan Main cast, 6 episodes
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[1]
2022 Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty Jessie Buss Main cast (Season 1), 9 episodes[2]
2022 The Last Movie Stars Herself (interview) 4 episodes

Stage

Year Title Role Theatre
1974 6 Rms Riv Vu Ann Miller Kenley Players, Dayton and Columbus, Ohio
1979 Vanities Mary Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre, Jupiter, Florida
2002 The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? Stevie Gray John Golden Theatre, New York City
2004 The Glass Menagerie Amanda Wingfield The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.
2017 The Glass Menagerie Amanda Wingfield Belasco Theatre, New York City
2019 All My Sons Kate Keller The Old Vic, London[3]

Books

Year Title
2018 In Pieces[4]

Discography

Singles

Album

References

  1. ^ Thorne, Will (April 9, 2019). "Richard E. Grant, Sally Field Join Jason Segel Series 'Dispatches From Elsewhere' at AMC". Variety.
  2. ^ Petski, Denise (March 18, 2021). "Sally Field To Play Jessie Buss In HBO's 1980s L.A. Lakers Series". Deadline Hollywood.
  3. ^ Mitchell, Robert (August 17, 2018). "Sally Field, Bill Pullman Set London Stage Debuts in 'All My Sons'". Variety.com. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
  4. ^ "Sally Field Talks About Her Life 'In Pieces' - The New York Times". The New York Times. Sep 11, 2018. Archived from the original on October 15, 2018. Retrieved October 29, 2018.

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