Sally Field
Acting • Born 1946-11-06
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.
Filmography
123 credits
Forrest Gump
Movie • 1994
Mrs. Gump
Spoiler Alert
Movie • 2022
Marilyn
80 for Brady
Movie • 2023
Betty
Mrs. Doubtfire
Movie • 1993
Miranda Hillard
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Movie • 2003
Victoria Rudd
Steel Magnolias
Movie • 1989
M'Lynn Eatenton
Stay Hungry
Movie • 1976
Mary Tate Farnsworth
Say It Isn't So
Movie • 2001
Valdine Wingfield
Smokey and the Bandit
Movie • 1977
Carrie 'Frog'
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Movie • 1993
Sassy (voice)
Home for the Holidays
Movie • 1974
Christine Morgan
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
Movie • 1979
Celeste Whitman
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
Movie • 1996
Sassy (voice)
Soapdish
Movie • 1991
Celeste Talbert
Not Without My Daughter
Movie • 1991
Betty Mahmoody
Smokey and the Bandit II
Movie • 1980
Carrie
Murphy's Romance
Movie • 1985
Emma Moriarty
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
Movie • 2008
Marina Del Ray (voice)
Places in the Heart
Movie • 1984
Edna Spalding
Punchline
Movie • 1988
Lilah Krytsick
Norma Rae
Movie • 1979
Norma Rae
The End
Movie • 1978
Mary Ellen
The Way West
Movie • 1967
Mercy McBee
Back Roads
Movie • 1981
Amy Post
Hooper
Movie • 1978
Gwen Doyle
Voices That Care
Movie • 1991
Self - Choir Member
Two Weeks
Movie • 2006
Anita Bergman
Eye for an Eye
Movie • 1996
Karen McCann
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
Movie • 1997
Self
Absence of Malice
Movie • 1981
Megan Carter
Kiss Me Goodbye
Movie • 1982
Kay
Lincoln
Movie • 2012
Mary Todd Lincoln
Heroes
Movie • 1977
Carol Bell
Lily for President?
Movie • 1982
Beth Barber
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Movie • 1996
Self (archive footage)
The Desert of Forbidden Art
Movie • 2011
Voice
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Movie • 2014
Aunt May
David Copperfield
Movie • 2001
Betsey Trotwood
Surrender
Movie • 1987
Daisy Morgan
A Cooler Climate
Movie • 1999
Iris
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
Movie • 1998
Self / Host
Mongo's Back in Town
Movie • 1971
Vikki
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
Movie • 1971
Denise "Dennie" Miller
Hitched
Movie • 1973
Roselle Bridgeman
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Movie • 1994
Self
The Amazing Spider-Man
Movie • 2012
Aunt May
Where the Heart Is
Movie • 2000
Mama Lil
Merry Christmas, George Bailey
Movie • 1997
Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
Hello, My Name Is Doris
Movie • 2015
Doris Miller
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Movie • 1986
Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)
All the Way Home
Movie • 1981
Mary Follet
Marriage: Year One
Movie • 1971
Jane Duden
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Movie • 2026
Tova
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Movie • 1991
Self - Hostess
Little Evil
Movie • 2017
Miss Shaylock
Spielberg
Movie • 2017
Self
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Movie • 1996
Self
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
Movie • 2019
Kate Keller
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
Movie • 2001
Self
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Movie • 1987
Self
Mickey's 50
Movie • 1978
Self
A Century of Cinema
Movie • 1994
Self
Bridger
Movie • 1976
Jennifer Melford
Love Letters
Movie • 2020
Melissa Gardner
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Movie • 2007
Self
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Movie • 1994
Self (archive footage)
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Movie • 1989
Self (voice)
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
Movie • 2012
Self
Moon Pilot
Movie • 1962
Beatnik Girl in Lineup (uncredited)
The Greatest Stuntman Alive
Movie • 1978
Herself
Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story
Movie • 2010
Brothers & Sisters: Family Album
Movie • 2007
Self/Nora Walker
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
Movie • 2015
Self (Archive)
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV • 2003
Self
The Tony Danza Show
TV • 2004
Self
Brothers and Sisters
TV • 2006
Nora Walker
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self
Gidget
TV • 1965
Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence
The Flying Nun
TV • 1967
Sister Bertrille
King of the Hill
TV • 1997
Junie Harper (voice)
The View
TV • 1997
Self - Guest
Alias Smith and Jones
TV • 1971
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV • 1992
Finding Your Roots
TV • 2012
Self
Night Gallery
TV • 1970
Irene Evans
The Girl with Something Extra
TV • 1973
Sally Burton
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
TV • 1968
Self
Intimate Portrait
TV • 1993
Self (archive footage)
Maniac
TV • 2018
Dr. Greta Mantleray
Occasional Wife
TV • 1966
The Court
TV • 2002
Justice Kate Nolan
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
The Larry Sanders Show
TV • 1992
Sally Field
From the Earth to the Moon
TV • 1998
Trudy Cooper
Sybil
TV • 1976
Sybil
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
ER
TV • 1994
Maggie Wyczenski
The Late Late Show with James Corden
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
Chelsea
TV • 2016
Self
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
TV • 2022
Jessie Buss
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV • 1973
Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV • 2019
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
The Last Movie Stars
TV • 2022
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
The Emmy Awards
TV • 1949
Self - Presenter
Dispatches from Elsewhere
TV • 2020
Janice
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
A Woman of Independent Means
TV • 1995
Bess Alcott Steed Garner
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Guest
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Self
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
TV • 1998
Self - Host
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
TV • 2008
Self
Hollywood Squares
TV • 1966
Self
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV • 2014
Self
The Directors
TV • 1999
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Self - Winner
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self