Sally Field

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.

Cast

Forrest Gump

(Mrs. Gump)

Spoiler Alert

(Marilyn)

80 for Brady

(Betty)

Mrs. Doubtfire

(Miranda Hillard)

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

(Rep. Victoria Rudd)

Steel Magnolias

(M'Lynn Eatenton)

Stay Hungry

(Mary Tate Farnsworth)

Say It Isn't So

(Valdine Wingfield)

Smokey and the Bandit

(Carrie 'Frog')

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

(Sassy (voice))

Home for the Holidays

(Christine Morgan)

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

(Celeste Whitman)

Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco

(Sassy (voice))

Soapdish

(Celeste Talbert)

Not Without My Daughter

(Betty Mahmoody)

Smokey and the Bandit II

(Carrie)

Murphy's Romance

(Emma Moriarty)

The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning

(Marina Del Ray (voice))

Places in the Heart

(Edna Spalding)

Punchline

(Lilah Krytsick)

Norma Rae

(Norma Rae)

The End

(Mary Ellen)

The Way West

(Mercy McBee)

Back Roads

(Amy Post)

Hooper

(Gwen Doyle)

Voices That Care

(Self - Choir Member)

Two Weeks

(Anita Bergman)

Eye for an Eye

(Karen McCann)

Lee Strasberg: The Method Man

(Self)

Absence of Malice

(Megan Carter)

Kiss Me Goodbye

(Kay)

Lincoln

(Mary Todd Lincoln)

Heroes

(Carol Bell)

Lily for President?

(Beth Barber)

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

(Self (archive footage))

The Desert of Forbidden Art

(Voice)

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

(Aunt May)

David Copperfield

(Aunt Betsey Trotwood)

Surrender

(Daisy Morgan)

A Cooler Climate

(Iris)

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies

(Self / Host)

Mongo's Back in Town

(Vikki)

Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring

(Denise "Dennie" Miller)

Hitched

(Roselle Bridgeman)

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home

(Self (archive footage))

Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump

(Self)

The Amazing Spider-Man

(Aunt May)

Where the Heart Is

(Mama Lil)

Merry Christmas, George Bailey!

(Mrs. Bailey / Narrator)

Hello, My Name Is Doris

(Doris Miller)

Barbra Streisand: One Voice

(Self - Audience Member (Uncredited))

All the Way Home

(Mary Follet)

Marriage: Year One

(Jane Duden)

Remarkably Bright Creatures

Sybil

(Sybil)

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

(Self - Hostess)

Little Evil

(Miss Shaylock)

Spielberg

(Self)

The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful

(Self)

National Theatre Live: All My Sons

(Kate Keller)

The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"

(Self)

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

(Self)

Mickey's 50

(Self)

A Century of Cinema

(Self)

Bridger

(Jennifer Melford)

Love Letters

(Melissa Gardner)

The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo

(Self)

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

(Self (archive footage))

Inside the Actors Studio

(Self)

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

(Self)

The Tony Danza Show

(Self)

Brothers and Sisters

(Nora Walker)

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Gidget

(Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence)

The Flying Nun

(Sister Bertrille)

King of the Hill

(Junie Harper (voice))

The View

(Self)

Alias Smith and Jones

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Finding Your Roots

(Self)

Night Gallery

(Irene Evans)

The Girl with Something Extra

(Sally Burton)

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

(Self)

Intimate Portrait

(Self (archive footage))

Maniac

(Dr. Greta Mantleray)

Occasional Wife

The Court

(Justice Kate Nolan)

The Oscars

(Self)

The Larry Sanders Show

(Sally Field)

From the Earth to the Moon

(Trudy Cooper)

Sybil

(Sybil)

Saturday Night Live

(Self - Host)

ER

(Maggie Wyczenski)

The Late Late Show with James Corden

(Self - Guest)

Chelsea

(Self)

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

(Jessie Buss)

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

(Self)

The Kelly Clarkson Show

The Mike Douglas Show

(Self)

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

(Self - Guest)

The Last Movie Stars

(Self)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

(Self)

The Emmy Awards

(Self - Presenter)

Dispatches from Elsewhere

(Janice)

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

A Woman of Independent Means

(Bess Alcott Steed Garner)

The Graham Norton Show

(Self)

The Dick Cavett Show

(Self - Guest)

The Wonderful World of Disney

(Self)

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies

(Self - Host)

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis

(Self)

Hollywood Squares

(Self)

Great Performances

(Self)

Tony Awards

(Self - Nominee)

Tony Awards

(Self - Presenter)

Golden Globe Awards

(Self - Nominee)

Golden Globe Awards

(Self - Presenter/Winner)

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

(Self)