Sally Field

Acting

Born 1946-11-06 Pasadena, California, USA 135 credits Academy Awards 2 Primetime Emmy Awards 2 Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1 Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award 1 Kennedy Center Honors 1

Awards

Won 2 Academy Awards

Academy Awards 2 won · 1 nominated

2013 Best Supporting Actress Nominated Lincoln
1985 Best Actress Won Places in the Heart
1980 Best Actress Won Norma Rae

Primetime Emmy Awards 2 won

2007 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Won Brothers & Sisters
2001 Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Won ER

Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 won

— Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series Won

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won

— star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1 won

— Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Won

Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award 1 won

— Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award Won

Kennedy Center Honors 1 won

2019 Kennedy Center Honors Won

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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.