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.

Known For	Acting
Most Rating	24.415
Birthday	1946-11-06
Place of Birth	Pasadena, California, USA
Also Known As	Sally Margaret Field,

Forrest Gump

Mrs. Doubtfire

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

Steel Magnolias

Smokey and the Bandit

Say It Isn't So

Stay Hungry

The Amazing Spider-Man

Home for the Holidays

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco

Soapdish

Not Without My Daughter

Smokey and the Bandit II

Murphy's Romance

Places in the Heart

Norma Rae

Punchline

The End

The Way West

Back Roads

Hooper

Two Weeks

Absence of Malice

Kiss Me Goodbye

Heroes

Lincoln

The Desert of Forbidden Art

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Surrender

David Copperfield

A Cooler Climate

Mongo's Back in Town

Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring

Hitched

Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump

Eye for an Eye

Hello, My Name Is Doris

All the Way Home

The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning

Marriage: Year One

Where the Heart Is

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

Little Evil

Spielberg

The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful

National Theatre Live: All My Sons

The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Mickey's 50

A Century of Cinema

Bridger

Love Letters

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

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

Spoiler Alert

Voices That Care

Lee Strasberg: The Method Man

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

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

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home

80 for Brady

Lily for President?

Merry Christmas, George Bailey!

Barbra Streisand: One Voice