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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 6, 1946
Place of Birth
Pasadena, California, USA
Also Known As
- Sally Margaret Field
- سالی فیلد
Sally Field
10.8 Popularity
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
6.3
Betty
80 for Brady
2023
7.0
Marilyn
Spoiler Alert
2022
6.9
Self
The Last Movie Stars
2022
7.6
Jessie Buss
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
2022
0.0
Melissa Gardner
Love Letters
2020
6.7
Janice
Dispatches from Elsewhere
2020
6.3
Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
8.5
Kate Keller
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
2019
7.4
Dr. Greta Mantleray
Maniac
2018
7.6
Self
Spielberg
2017
Credits
80 for Brady
as Betty
2023
6.3
Spoiler Alert
as Marilyn
2022
7.0
The Last Movie Stars
as Self
2022
6.9
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
as Jessie Buss
2022
7.6
Love Letters
as Melissa Gardner
2020
0.0
Dispatches from Elsewhere
as Janice
2020
6.7
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
6.3
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
as Kate Keller
2019
8.5
Maniac
as Dr. Greta Mantleray
2018
7.4
Spielberg
as Self
2017
7.6
Little Evil
as Miss Shaylock
2017
5.6
Chelsea
as Self
2016
5.1
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
as Self (Archive)
2015
0.0
Hello, My Name Is Doris
as Doris Miller
2015
6.4
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
6.2
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest
2015
5.3
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.6
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
as Aunt May
2014
6.5
Lincoln
as Mary Todd Lincoln
2012
6.9
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
as Self
2012
7.3
The Amazing Spider-Man
as Aunt May
2012
6.7
Finding Your Roots
as Self
2012
6.4
The Desert of Forbidden Art
as Voice
2011
4.7
Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story
2010
0.0
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
as Marina Del Ray (voice)
2008
6.7
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
as Self
2008
7.5
🎬
Brothers & Sisters: Family Album
as Self/Nora Walker
2007
0.0
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
as Self
2007
6.0
Two Weeks
as Anita Bergman
2006
6.0
Brothers and Sisters
as Nora Walker
2006
7.1
🎬
The Tony Danza Show
as Self
2004
6.1
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
5.6
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
as Victoria Rudd
2003
5.7
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003
5.5
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
2003
5.5
The Court
as Justice Kate Nolan
2002
10.0
David Copperfield
as Betsey Trotwood
2001
6.2
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
as Self
2001
6.0
Say It Isn't So
as Valdine Wingfield
2001
4.7
Where the Heart Is
as Mama Lil
2000
7.1
A Cooler Climate
as Iris
1999
4.4
The Directors
as Self
1999
5.8
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
as Self - Host
1998
8.2
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
as Self / Host
1998
0.0
From the Earth to the Moon
as Trudy Cooper
1998
8.2
Merry Christmas, George Bailey
as Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
1997
5.0
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
as Self
1997
0.0
King of the Hill
as Junie Harper (voice)
1997
7.4
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
as Self (archive footage)
1996
6.4
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
as Self
1996
10.0
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
as Sassy (voice)
1996
6.6
Eye for an Eye
as Karen McCann
1996
6.2
A Woman of Independent Means
as Bess Alcott Steed Garner
1995
10.0
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
as Self
1994
7.5
ER
as Maggie Wyczenski
1994
7.8
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
7.5
Forrest Gump
as Mrs. Gump
1994
8.5
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
as Self (archive footage)
1994
7.0
A Century of Cinema
as Self
1994
8.0
Mrs. Doubtfire
as Miranda Hillard
1993
7.2
Intimate Portrait
as Self (archive footage)
1993
4.5
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
as Sassy (voice)
1993
7.0
The Larry Sanders Show
as Sally Field
1992
7.7
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
5.4
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
as Self - Hostess
1991
5.7
Soapdish
as Celeste Talbert
1991
6.2
Voices That Care
as Self - Choir Member
1991
8.0
Not Without My Daughter
as Betty Mahmoody
1991
6.7
Steel Magnolias
as M'Lynn Eatenton
1989
7.2
🎬
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Self (voice)
1989
0.0
Punchline
as Lilah Krytsick
1988
5.5
Surrender
as Daisy Morgan
1987
4.9
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self
1987
6.0
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
as Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)
1986
7.6
Murphy's Romance
as Emma Moriarty
1985
6.1
Places in the Heart
as Edna Spalding
1984
7.2
Kiss Me Goodbye
as Kay
1982
5.8
Lily for President?
as Beth Barber
1982
0.0
All the Way Home
as Mary Follet
1981
7.0
Absence of Malice
as Megan Carter
1981
6.6
Back Roads
as Amy Post
1981
5.3
Smokey and the Bandit II
as Carrie
1980
5.6
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
as Celeste Whitman
1979
5.1
Norma Rae
as Norma Rae
1979
7.2
Mickey's 50
as Self
1978
0.0
Hooper
as Gwen Doyle
1978
6.3
The End
as Mary Ellen
1978
5.5
The Greatest Stuntman Alive
as Herself
1978
0.0
Heroes
as Carol Bell
1977
6.2
Smokey and the Bandit
as Carrie 'Frog'
1977
7.0
Sybil
as Sybil
1976
7.4
Bridger
as Jennifer Melford
1976
0.0
Stay Hungry
as Mary Tate Farnsworth
1976
5.7
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
Home for the Holidays
as Christine Morgan
1974
5.3
The Girl with Something Extra
as Sally Burton
1973
7.5
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
1973
6.3
Hitched
as Roselle Bridgeman
1973
6.0
Mongo's Back in Town
as Vikki
1971
4.8
Marriage: Year One
as Jane Duden
1971
6.0
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
as Denise "Dennie" Miller
1971
5.7
Great Performances
as Self
1971
5.8
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
7.0
Night Gallery
as Irene Evans
1970
7.8
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.8
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self
1968
6.6
The Flying Nun
as Sister Bertrille
1967
6.3
The Way West
as Mercy McBee
1967
6.1
Hollywood Squares
as Self
1966
7.8
Occasional Wife
1966
7.5
Gidget
as Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence
1965
6.6
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
Moon Pilot
as Beatnik Girl in Lineup (uncredited)
1962
5.4
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.9
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Self
1954
7.8
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
The Emmy Awards
as Self - Presenter
1949
7.9
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Self - Winner
1944
7.2
Remarkably Bright Creatures
as Tova
N/A
0.0