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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 25, 1949
Place of Birth
Quitman, Texas, USA
Also Known As
- 시시 스페이섹
- סיסי ספייסיק
Sissy Spacek
2.8 Popularity
Biography
Mary Elizabeth 'Sissy' Spacek (born December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for four British Academy Film Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. Spacek was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011. Born and raised in Texas, she initially aspired to a career as a recording artist. In 1968, at age 18, she recorded a single, "John, You Went Too Far This Time," under the name Rainbo. She began her professional acting career in the early 1970s, making her debut as an extra in Andy Warhol's Women in Revolt (1971). Her breakout role came with Terrence Malick's influential crime film Badlands (1973), which earned her a nomination for the British Academy Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles. She rose to international prominence with her portrayal of Carrie White in Brian De Palma's horror film Carrie (1976), for which she received her first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. After appearing in the acclaimed films Welcome to L.A. (1976) and Robert Altman's 3 Women (1977), she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn in the biographical musical film Coal Miner's Daughter (1980). Her other Oscar-nominated roles include Missing (1982), The River (1984), Crimes of the Heart (1986), and In the Bedroom (2001). Her other prominent films include Raggedy Man (1981), JFK (1991), Affliction (1997), The Straight Story (1999), Tuck Everlasting (2002), Nine Lives (2005), North Country (2005), Four Christmases (2008), Get Low (2010), The Help (2011), and The Old Man & the Gun (2018). She received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the television films The Good Old Boys (1995) and Last Call (2002), and for her guest role on the HBO drama series Big Love (2011). She portrayed matriarch Sally Rayburn on the Netflix drama thriller series Bloodline (2015–2017), Ruth Deaver on the Hulu psychological horror series Castle Rock (2018), and Ellen Bergman on the Amazon Prime Video psychological thriller series Homecoming (2018). She has also ventured into music, and recorded vocals for the soundtrack album of Coal Miner's Daughter, which peaked at number two on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart and garnered her a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. She released a studio album, Hangin' Up My Heart (1983), which was critically well-received and peaked at number 17 on Billboard Top Country Albums chart.
Known For
6.4
Pam
Die My Love
2025
6.4
Gail
Dying for Sex
2025
6.3
Tina
Sam & Kate
2022
6.9
Irene York
Night Sky
2022
0.0
Narrator / Voice of Susanna Clark (voice)
Without Getting Killed or Caught
2021
7.0
Ellen Bergman
Homecoming
2018
6.4
Jewel
The Old Man & the Gun
2018
7.2
Ruth Deaver
Castle Rock
2018
7.5
Self
GQ Presents: Iconic Characters
2018
7.5
Self (archive footage)
HyperNormalisation
2016
Credits
Die My Love
as Pam
2025
6.4
Dying for Sex
as Gail
2025
6.4
Sam & Kate
as Tina
2022
6.3
Night Sky
as Irene York
2022
6.9
Without Getting Killed or Caught
as Narrator / Voice of Susanna Clark (voice)
2021
0.0
Homecoming
as Ellen Bergman
2018
7.0
The Old Man & the Gun
as Jewel
2018
6.4
Castle Rock
as Ruth Deaver
2018
7.2
GQ Presents: Iconic Characters
as Self
2018
7.5
HyperNormalisation
as Self (archive footage)
2016
7.5
River of Gold
as Narrator
2016
0.0
Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl
as Self / Loretta Lynn
2016
7.8
Bloodline
as Sally Rayburn
2015
7.1
Off Camera with Sam Jones
as Self
2014
4.0
Making Badlands
as Self
2013
8.0
Deadfall
as June
2012
6.0
The Help
as Missus Walters
2011
8.2
Get Low
as Mattie Darrow
2010
6.7
Four Christmases
as Paula
2008
5.8
Lake City
as Maggie
2008
5.4
Pictures of Hollis Woods
as Josie Cahill
2007
6.6
Hot Rod
as Marie Powell
2007
6.4
Gray Matters
as Dr. Sydney
2007
5.8
Big Love
as Marilyn Densham
2006
6.9
Nine Lives
as Ruth
2005
6.0
An American Haunting
as Lucy Bell
2005
5.5
The Ring Two
as Evelyn
2005
5.8
North Country
as Alice Aimes
2005
7.2
A Home at the End of the World
as Alice Glover
2004
6.4
Absence of Malick
as Self
2003
7.0
A Decade Under the Influence
as Self
2003
7.9
Tuck Everlasting
as Mae Tuck
2002
6.7
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
as Self
2002
6.7
Last Call
as Zelda Fitzgerald
2002
5.9
In the Bedroom
as Ruth Fowler
2001
6.9
Acting 'Carrie'
as Self
2001
7.0
Visualizing 'Carrie'
as Self (archive footage)
2001
5.7
Midwives
as Sibyl Danforth
2001
6.2
Songs In Ordinary Time
as Marie Fermoyle
2000
3.8
The Straight Story
as Rose
1999
7.7
The Rage: Carrie 2
as Carrie White (archive footage) (uncredited)
1999
5.7
Blast from the Past
as Helen
1999
6.8
Affliction
as Margie Fogg
1998
6.3
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
The Grass Harp
as Verena Talbo
1996
5.8
If These Walls Could Talk
as Barbara Barrows
1996
6.6
Beyond the Call
as Pam O'Brien
1996
6.0
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self - Guest
1996
3.9
Streets of Laredo
as Lorena
1995
6.3
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain
as Martha Jefferson Randolph (voice)
1995
0.0
The Good Old Boys
as Spring Renfro
1995
6.7
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
7.5
A Place for Annie
as Susan Lansing
1994
6.0
Trading Mom
as Mommy / Mama / Mom / Natasha
1994
6.0
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
as Self
1993
5.6
A Private Matter
as Sherri Finkbine
1992
4.8
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
as Narrator (voice)
1992
10.0
Hard Promises
as Christine Ann Coalter
1992
5.5
🎬
Fonda on Fonda
as Self - The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (archive footage)
1992
6.0
JFK
as Liz Garrison
1991
7.6
🎬
The Talking Eggs
as Narrator (voice)
1991
0.0
Voices That Care
as Self - Choir Member
1991
8.0
The Long Walk Home
as Miriam Thompson
1990
7.6
🎬
Seitenblicke
as self
1987
0.0
Crimes of the Heart
as Babe Magrath
1986
6.0
'night, Mother
as Jessie Cates
1986
7.3
Violets are Blue
as Augusta "Gussie" Sawyer
1986
4.8
Marie: A True Story
as Marie Ragghianti
1985
5.6
The River
as Mae Garvey
1984
6.4
The Man with Two Brains
as Anne Uumellmahaye (uncredited) (voice)
1983
6.2
Missing
as Beth Horman
1982
7.2
Raggedy Man
as Nita
1981
5.3
Heart Beat
as Carolyn Cassady
1980
5.5
Coal Miner's Daughter
as Loretta Lynn
1980
7.2
Verna: USO Girl
as Verna Vane
1978
0.0
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
as Self
1977
0.0
3 Women
as Mildred "Pinky" Rose
1977
7.1
Welcome to L.A.
as Linda Murray
1976
4.8
Carrie
as Carrie
1976
7.3
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
Katherine
as Katherine Alman
1975
6.1
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
6.0
Ginger in the Morning
as Ginger Brown
1974
4.5
The Migrants
as Wanda Trimpin
1974
5.7
Badlands
as Holly Sargis
1974
7.5
The Girls of Huntington House
as Sara
1973
6.0
The Waltons
1972
7.2
The Rookies
1972
6.8
Prime Cut
as Poppy
1972
6.4
Great Performances
as Verna Vane
1971
5.8
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Susan Lansing
1951
8.6