Sally Field
Acting
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
Acting130
movieMarty, Life Is Short
2026
Self (archive footage)
movieRemarkably Bright Creatures
2026
Tova Sullivan
movieSpoiler Alert
2022
Marilyn
movieI Am Burt Reynolds
2020
Self (archive)
movieLove Letters
2020
Melissa Gardner
movieNational Theatre Live: All My Sons
2019
Kate Keller
tvManiac
2018
Dr. Greta Mantleray
movieLittle Evil
2017
Miss Shaylock
tvChelsea
2016
Self
movieAnother Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015
Self (Archive)
movieHello, My Name Is Doris
2015
Doris Miller
tvThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Self - Guest
tvThe Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
Self - Guest
movieLincoln
2012
Mary Todd Lincoln
movieThe Amazing Spider-Man
2012
Aunt May
tvWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Self - Guest
movieThe Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
2008
Marina Del Ray (voice)
movieTwo Weeks
2006
Anita Bergman
tvBrothers and Sisters
2006
Nora Walker
movieLegally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003
Victoria Rudd
tvThe Court
2002
Justice Kate Nolan
movieDavid Copperfield
2001
Betsey Trotwood
movieSay It Isn't So
2001
Valdine Wingfield
tvDavid Copperfield
2000
Betsey Trotwood
movieWhere the Heart Is
2000
Mama Lil
tvAFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
1998
Self - Host
tvFrom the Earth to the Moon
1998
Trudy Cooper
movieMerry Christmas, George Bailey
1997
Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
tvThe View
1997
Self - Guest / Self
tvKing of the Hill
1997
Junie Harper (voice)
movieShirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996
Self (archive footage)
movieHomeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
1996
Sassy (voice)
movieEye for an Eye
1996
Karen McCann
tvA Woman of Independent Means
1995
Bess Alcott Steed Garner
tvER
1994
Maggie Wyczenski
movieForrest Gump
1994
Mrs. Gump
movieSesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994
Self (archive footage)
movieMrs. Doubtfire
1993
Miranda Hillard
tvIntimate Portrait
1993
Self (archive footage)
movieHomeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
1993
Sassy (voice)
tvThe Larry Sanders Show
1992
Sally Field
movieBarbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991
Self - Hostess
movieSoapdish
1991
Celeste Talbert
movieVoices That Care
1991
Self - Choir Member
movieNot Without My Daughter
1991
Betty Mahmoody
movieSteel Magnolias
1989
M'Lynn Eatenton
moviePunchline
1988
Lilah Krytsick
movieSurrender
1987
Daisy Morgan
movieBarbra Streisand: One Voice
1986
Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)
movieMurphy's Romance
1985
Emma Moriarty
moviePlaces in the Heart
1984
Edna Spalding
movieLily for President?
1982
Beth Barber
movieAll the Way Home
1981
Mary Follet
movieAbsence of Malice
1981
Megan Carter
movieBack Roads
1981
Amy Post
movieBeyond the Poseidon Adventure
1979
Celeste Whitman
movieNorma Rae
1979
Norma Rae
movieHooper
1978
Gwen Doyle
movieThe End
1978
Mary Ellen
movieHeroes
1977
Carol Bell
movieSmokey and the Bandit
1977
Carrie 'Frog'
tvSybil
1976
Sybil
movieBridger
1976
Jennifer Melford
movieStay Hungry
1976
Mary Tate Farnsworth
tvSaturday Night Live
1975
Self - Host
movieHome for the Holidays
1974
Christine Morgan
tvThe Girl with Something Extra
1973
Sally Burton
movieHitched
1973
Roselle Bridgeman
movieMarriage: Year One
1971
Jane Duden
movieMaybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
1971
Denise "Dennie" Miller
tvNight Gallery
1970
Irene Evans
tvThe Dick Cavett Show
1968
Self - Guest
tvThe Flying Nun
1967
Sister Bertrille
movieThe Way West
1967
Mercy McBee
tvThe Dating Game
1965
Sally Field
tvGidget
1965
Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence
movieMoon Pilot
1962
Beatnik Girl in Lineup (uncredited)
tvTony Awards
1956
Self - Presenter / Self - Nominee
tvThe Oscars
1953
Self
tvThe Emmy Awards
1949
Self - Presenter
tvGolden Globe Awards
1944
Self - Nominee / Self - Self - Winner
Directing3
movieBeautiful
2000
Director
tvFrom the Earth to the Moon
1998
Director
movieThe Christmas Tree
1996
Director
Production3
movieThe Christmas Tree
1996
Executive Producer
tvA Woman of Independent Means
1995
Executive Producer
movieDying Young
1991
Producer
Crew1
movieEye of God
1997
Thanks
Writing1
movieThe Christmas Tree
1996
Teleplay