Name
Sally Field
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1946-11-06 (80 years old)
Place of Birth
Pasadena, California, USA
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.
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- 1994 Forrest Gump as Mrs. Gump
- 2022 Spoiler Alert as Marilyn
- 2023 80 for Brady as Betty
- 1993 Mrs. Doubtfire as Miranda Hillard
- 2003 Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde as Victoria Rudd
- 1989 Steel Magnolias as M'Lynn Eatenton
- 1976 Stay Hungry as Mary Tate Farnsworth
- 2001 Say It Isn't So as Valdine Wingfield
- 1977 Smokey and the Bandit as Carrie
- 1993 Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey as Sassy (voice)
- 1974 Home for the Holidays as Christine Morgan
- 1979 Beyond the Poseidon Adventure as Celeste Whitman
- 1996 Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco as Sassy (voice)
- 1991 Soapdish as Celeste Talbert
- 1991 Not Without My Daughter as Betty Mahmoody
- 1980 Smokey and the Bandit II as Carrie
- 1985 Murphy's Romance as Emma Moriarty
- 2008 The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning as Marina Del Ray (voice)
- 1984 Places in the Heart as Edna Spalding
- 1988 Punchline as Lilah Krytsick
- 1979 Norma Rae as Norma Rae
- 1978 The End as Mary Ellen
- 1967 The Way West as Mercy McBee
- 1981 Back Roads as Amy Post
- 1978 Hooper as Gwen Doyle
- 1991 Voices That Care as Self - Choir Member
- 2006 Two Weeks as Anita Bergman
- 1996 Eye for an Eye as Karen McCann
- 1997 Lee Strasberg: The Method Man as Self
- 1981 Absence of Malice as Megan Carter
- 1982 Kiss Me Goodbye as Kay
- 2012 Lincoln as Mary Todd Lincoln
- 1977 Heroes as Carol Bell
- 1982 Lily for President? as Beth Barber
- 1996 Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels as Self (archive footage)
- 2011 The Desert of Forbidden Art as Voice
- 2014 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 as Aunt May
- 2001 David Copperfield as Betsey Trotwood
- 1987 Surrender as Daisy Morgan
- 1999 A Cooler Climate as Iris
- 1998 AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies as Self / Host
- 1971 Mongo's Back in Town as Vikki
- 1971 Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring as Denise "Dennie" Miller
- 1973 Hitched as Roselle Bridgeman
- 1994 Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump as Self
- 2012 The Amazing Spider-Man as Aunt May
- 2000 Where the Heart Is as Mama Lil
- 1997 Merry Christmas, George Bailey as Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
- 2015 Hello, My Name Is Doris as Doris Miller
- 1986 Barbra Streisand: One Voice as Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)
- 1981 All the Way Home as Mary Follet
- 1971 Marriage: Year One as Jane Duden
- 2026 Remarkably Bright Creatures as Tova Sullivan
- 1991 Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire as Self - Hostess
- 2017 Little Evil as Miss Shaylock
- 2017 Spielberg as Self
- 1996 The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful as Self
- 2019 National Theatre Live: All My Sons as Kate Keller
- 2001 The Story Behind "Absence of Malice" as Self
- 1987 James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self
- 1978 Mickey's 50 as Self
- 1994 A Century of Cinema as Self
- 1976 Bridger as Jennifer Melford
- 2020 Love Letters as Melissa Gardner
- 2007 The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo as Self
- 1994 Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! as Self (archive footage)
- 1989 Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre as Self (voice)
- 2012 Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn as Self
- 1962 Moon Pilot as Beatnik Girl in Lineup (uncredited)
- 1978 The Greatest Stuntman Alive as Herself
- 2010 Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story
- 2007 Brothers & Sisters: Family Album as Self/Nora Walker
- 2015 Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire as Self (Archive)
- 2020 I Am Burt Reynolds as Self (archive)
- 2026 Marty, Life Is Short as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home as Self (archive footage)
- 1999 Saturday Night Live: Christmas as Mom (archive footage)
- 2026 Dolly Parton: An American Original – Special Edition of 20/20 as Self (archive footage)
- 1994 Inside the Actors Studio ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2004 The Tony Danza Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2006 Brothers and Sisters ( 109 episodes ) as Nora Walker
- 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1965 Gidget ( 32 episodes ) as Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence
- 1967 The Flying Nun ( 82 episodes ) as Sister Bertrille
- 1997 King of the Hill ( 1 episode ) as Junie Harper (voice)
- 1997 The View ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Guest
- 1971 Alias Smith and Jones ( 2 episodes )
- 1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ( 3 episodes )
- 2012 Finding Your Roots ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1970 Night Gallery ( 1 episode ) as Irene Evans
- 1973 The Girl with Something Extra ( 22 episodes ) as Sally Burton
- 1968 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1993 Intimate Portrait ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
- 2018 Maniac ( 10 episodes ) as Dr. Greta Mantleray
- 1966 Occasional Wife ( 1 episode )
- 2002 The Court ( 6 episodes ) as Justice Kate Nolan
- 1953 The Oscars ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1992 The Larry Sanders Show ( 1 episode ) as Sally Field
- 1998 From the Earth to the Moon ( 1 episode ) as Trudy Cooper
- 1976 Sybil ( 2 episodes ) as Sybil
- 1975 Saturday Night Live ( 1 episode ) as Self - Host
- 1994 ER ( 11 episodes ) as Maggie Wyczenski
- 2015 The Late Late Show with James Corden ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2016 Chelsea ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2022 Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty ( 10 episodes ) as Jessie Buss
- 1973 The American Film Institute Salute to ... ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1961 The Mike Douglas Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen ( 4 episodes ) as Self - Guest
- 2022 The Last Movie Stars ( 4 episodes ) as Self
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1949 The Emmy Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Presenter
- 2020 Dispatches from Elsewhere ( 10 episodes ) as Janice
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 1 episode )
- 1995 A Woman of Independent Means ( 3 episodes ) as Bess Alcott Steed Garner
- 2007 The Graham Norton Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1968 The Dick Cavett Show ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 1954 The Wonderful World of Disney ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1998 AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Host
- 2008 Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1966 Hollywood Squares ( 5 episodes ) as Self
- 1971 Great Performances ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards ( 4 episodes ) as Self - Nominee
- 2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1999 The Directors ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Self - Winner
- 1962 The Merv Griffin Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2000 David Copperfield ( 2 episodes ) as Betsey Trotwood
- 1956 Tony Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Presenter
- 1956 Tony Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Nominee
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 1997 The View ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1965 The Dating Game ( 1 episode ) as Sally Field
- 2025 Variety & CNN Actors on Actors ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2026 Talking Pictures: A Movie Memories Podcast ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1971 Film '72 ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 1978 Ciné regards ( 1 episode ) as Self
