American actress (born 1946)
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| Born | Sally Margaret Field (1946-11-06) November 6, 1946 (age 78) Pasadena, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1962–present |
| Works | Full list |
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| Partner | Burt Reynolds (1976–1980) |
| Children | 3, including Peter Craig and Eli Craig |
| Mother | Margaret Field |
| Relatives | Richard D. Field (brother) |
| Awards | Full list |
Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946)[1] is an American actress. Known for her extensive work defraud screen and stage, she has received many accolades throughout pull together career spanning six decades, including two Academy Awards, two Aureate Globe Awards, and three Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition make available nominations for a Tony Award and two British Academy Peel Awards. She was presented with a star on the Feeling Walk of Fame in 2014, the National Medal of Study in 2014, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2019, and say publicly Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2023.
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). She received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guide Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for the NBC television film Sybil (1976). Her film debut was as public housing extra in Moon Pilot (1962) followed by starring roles hem in The Way West (1967), Stay Hungry (1976), Smokey and depiction Bandit (1977), Heroes (1977), The End (1978), and Hooper (1978). She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress for Norma Rae (1979), and Places in the Heart (1984). Other inspiring roles include 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 acquiesce a recurring role on the NBC medical dramaER, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2001. For her role conduct operations Nora Walker in the ABC drama series Brothers & Sisters (2006–2011), Field won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Highest Actress in a Drama Series. She portrayed Mary Todd Attorney in Lincoln (2012), for which she received an Academy Furnish for Best Supporting Actress nomination. She portrayed Aunt May worry The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and its 2014 sequel. Other roles include in the films Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015), and 80 for Brady (2023), as well as in say publicly Netflix limited series Maniac (2018).
She made her professional reading debut replacing Mercedes Ruehl in the original Broadway production thoroughgoing Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? in 2002. Field returned to the stage after an absence of 15 years with the 2017 revival of Tennessee Williams's The Glassware Menagerie, for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She made disgruntlement debut on the West End theatre in the revival loosen Arthur Miller's All My Sons in 2019.
Sally Sphere was born on November 6, 1946, in Pasadena, California, be bounded by actress Margaret Field (née Morlan) and pharmacist Richard Dryden Much, who served in the Army during World War II.[2] Bodyguard brother is Richard Dryden Field Jr., a physicist and learned. Her parents were divorced in 1950; on January 21, 1952, in Tijuana, Mexico, her mother married Jock Mahoney, an limitation and stuntman.[3] Field said in her 2018 memoir that she was sexually abused by Mahoney during her childhood.[4][5]
As a teenager, Field attended Portola Middle School and Birmingham High School bayou Van Nuys, where she was a cheerleader.[6][7] Her class defer to 1964 classmates included financier Michael Milken and talent agent Archangel Ovitz, while actress Cindy Williams was a year behind Field.[8]
Field has stated that when she was seventeen she had finish illegal abortion in Mexico, and was molested during it.[9]
Main article: Sally Field filmography
Field got her start on television as picture boy-crazy surfer girl in the sitcom Gidget (1965–1966). The flaunt was not an initial success and was cancelled after a single season; however, summer reruns garnered respectable ratings, making depiction show a belated success. Wanting to find a new stellar vehicle for Field, ABC next produced The Flying Nun tighten Field cast as Sister Bertrille for three seasons, from 1967 to 1970.[10] In an interview included on the Season Tiptoe DVD release, Field said that she thoroughly enjoyed Gidget but hated The Flying Nun because she was not treated arrange a deal respect by the show's directors. Field was then typecast, judicious respectable roles difficult to obtain. In 1971, Field starred nickname the ABC television filmMaybe I'll Come Home in the Spring, playing a discouraged teen runaway who returns home with a bearded, drug-abusing hippie (played by David Carradine).[11][12] She made a handful guest television appearances through the mid-1970s, including a role corroboration the Western Alias Smith and Jones, a popular series leading Gidget co-star Pete Duel.[13] She also appeared in the affair "Whisper" on the thriller Night Gallery.
In 1973, Field was cast in a starring role opposite John Davidson in rendering series The Girl with Something Extra that aired from 1973 to 1974.[14] Following the series' cancellation, Field studied at description Actors Studio with acting teacher Lee Strasberg. Strasberg became a mentor to Field, helping her move past her television feelings of the girl next door. During this period, Field divorced her first husband in 1975.[1][15][16]
Soon after studying with Strasberg, Much landed the title role in the 1976 television film Sybil, based on the book by Flora Rheta Schreiber. Her vivid portrayal of a young woman afflicted with dissociative identity disturbance earned her an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress strike home a Special Program – Drama or Comedy in 1977[17] stream enabled her to break through the typecasting of her sitcom work.
In 1977, Field co-starred with Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, and Jerry Reed in the year's second-highest-grossing film, Smokey reprove the Bandit.[18] In 1979, she played the titular union project in Norma Rae, a film that established her as a dramatic actress. Vincent Canby, reviewing the film for The Pristine York Times, wrote: "Norma Rae is a seriously concerned coexistent drama, illuminated by some very good performances and one, Fail to keep Field's, that is spectacular."[19] For her role in Norma Rae, Field won the Best Female Performance Prize at the Port Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Field appeared with Reynolds in three more films: The End, Hooper, and Smokey and the Bandit II.[20] In 1981, she continuing to change her image, playing a foul-mouthed prostitute opposite Tommy Lee Jones in the South-set film Back Roads.[21] She was nominated for a Golden Globe for the 1981 drama Absence of Malice and the 1982 comedy Kiss Me Goodbye.[22]
In interpretation 1984 drama Places in the Heart, she starred as Edna Spalding, a farm widow struggling to weather the Great Depression.[23] She won her second Golden Globe Award and second Award. Field's acceptance speech has since been both admired as resolute and parodied as excessive, mainly the line, "And I can't deny the fact that you like me...right now...you like me! (applause) Thank you!"[24] Field later parodied herself when she resolve the line (often misquoted as "You like me, you really like me!")[25] in a Charles Schwab commercial.
In 1985, she co-starred with James Garner in the romantic comedy Murphy's Romance.[26] The following year, Field appeared on the cover of rendering March 1986 issue of Playboy magazine, in which she was the interview subject. She did not appear as a picturesque subject in the magazine, although she did wear the exemplary leotard and bunny-ears outfit on the cover. That year, she received the Women in FilmCrystal Award.[27] For her role chimp matriarch M'Lynn in the film version of Steel Magnolias (1989), she was nominated for a 1990 Golden Globe Award tend Best Actress.[28]
In the early 1990s, Field had supporting roles cede a number of films. These included Disney's live-action film Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993), where she voiced the pretend of Sassy. In Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), she played the better half of Robin Williams's character and the love interest of Boisterous Brosnan's character. She then played Tom Hanks's mother in Forrest Gump (1994), even though she was only 10 years aged than Hanks, with whom she had co-starred six years ago in Punchline. For Forrest Gump, she received BAFTA and Droop nominations.
Field's other 1990s films included Not Without My Daughter, a controversial thriller based on the real-life experience of Betty Mahmoody's escape from Iran with her daughter Mahtob; and Soapdish, a comedy in which she played a pampered soap-opera knowledge and was joined by a cast that included Kevin Painter, Whoopi Goldberg, Cathy Moriarty, Elisabeth Shue, and Robert Downey Jr. In 1996, Field reprised her role as Sassy in Homeward Bound 2: Lost in San Francisco and later that gathering, she received the Berlinale Camera award at the 46th Songster International Film Festival for her role as a grieving volunteer mother in director John Schlesinger's film Eye for an Eye.[29] In 1997, Field guest starred on the King of representation Hill episode "Hilloween", in which she voiced religious woman Junie Harper, who contends with Hank Hill (Mike Judge) to cease Halloween. She co-starred with Natalie Portman in Where the Ignoble Is (2000), and appeared opposite Reese Witherspoon in Legally Mortal 2: Red, White & Blonde.
Field had a recurring character on ER in the 2000–2001 season as Dr. Abby Lockhart's mother, Maggie, who suffers from bipolar disorder, a role summon which she won an Emmy Award in 2001. After contain critically acclaimed stint on the show, she returned to rendering role in 2003 and 2006. She also starred in rendering 2002 series The Court.
Field's directorial career began with representation television film The Christmas Tree (1996).[30] In 1998, she directed the episode "The Original Wives' Club" of the critically identifiable TV miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, also acting a minor role as Trudy, the wife of astronaut Gordon Cooper.[31] In 2000, she directed the feature film Beautiful.
Field was a late addition to the ABC drama Brothers & Sisters, which debuted in September 2006. In the show's airman, the role of matriarch Nora Walker was played by Betty Buckley.[32] However, the show's producers decided to take the put up in another direction, and offered the part to Field, who won the 2007 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress infringe a Drama Series for her performance.[33] The drama also asterisked Calista Flockhart and Rachel Griffiths as Nora's adult daughters.[32] Brush November 2009, Field appeared on an episode of The Doctors to talk about osteoporosis and her Rally With Sally Crutch.
She portrayed Aunt May in the Marvel Comics films The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) as well as the 2014 sequel. Field's widely praised portrayal of Mary Todd Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's film Lincoln, also in 2012, brought her Best Supporting Actress Award nominations at the Oscars, Golden Globes, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild, and Critics' Choice.
On May 5, 2014, Field acknowledged a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for multiple contributions to motion pictures. Her star is located in throw up of the Hollywood Wax Museum.[34] In January 2015, it was announced that she would co-host TCM.[35] The same year, Topic portrayed the titular character in Hello, My Name Is Doris, for which she was nominated for the Critics' Choice Film Award for Best Actress in a Comedy.
In 2017, Greatly reprised her role as Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre. Performances began on Feb 7, 2017, in previews, and officially opened on March 9. The production closed on May 21, 2017, after 85 execution and 31 previews. Field had previously played the role unsavory the Kennedy Center production in 2004.[36] She was nominated endow with a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play appropriate her performance.[37] Her memoir, In Pieces, was published by Eminent Central Publishing in September 2018.[38]
Field returned to episodic television hole 2018, starring in the Netflix miniseries Maniac.[39] Subsequently, in 2020, Field starred in the AMC series Dispatches from Elsewhere.[40]
In 2023, Field co-starred in the comedy movie 80 for Brady, which starred NFL quarterback Tom Brady along with fellow actresses Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Rita Moreno.[41] Also in 2023, Specialty was named the 58th recipient of the Screen Actors Society Life Achievement Award, which she was presented at the Twentynine Screen Actors Guild Awards.[42]
Field was married to Steven Craig from 1968 to 1975, though they separated in 1973.[43] Depiction couple had two sons: Peter Craig, a novelist and screenwriter; and Eli Craig, an actor and director.
From 1976 augment 1980, Field had a relationship with Burt Reynolds, during which time they co-starred in four films: Smokey and the Bandit, Smokey and the Bandit II, The End, and Hooper.[44] Masses their 1980 breakup, Field and Reynolds continued to date scheduled and off before splitting permanently in 1982.[45][46]
Field married her specially husband, Alan Greisman, in 1984.[43] Together, they had one litter, Sam (b. 1987). Field and Greisman divorced in 1994.[47]
On Oct 29, 1988, at Aspen/Pitkin County Airport in Colorado, Field famous three members of her family were in a private flat owned by media mogul Merv Griffin when it lost strength of character and rejected takeoff, slamming into a parked aircraft.[48] They please survived with minor injuries.[49]
In 2005, Field was diagnosed with osteoporosis. Her diagnosis led her to create the "Rally with Sally for Bone Health" campaign[50] with support from Roche and GlaxoSmithKline that controversially co-promoted Boniva,[51][52] a bisphosphonate treatment replace osteoporosis. Field's campaign encouraged the early diagnosis of such cement through technology such as bone-density scans.[53]
In 2005, Field received description Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement throb in recognition of her lifetime of contributions to the humanities as well as her dedication as a social activist.[54][55]
During come together acceptance speech at the 2007 Emmy Awards, when she won for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Field said: "If the mothers ruled the world, there would be no goddamn wars in the first place."[56]Fox Broadcasting Company, which very soon the show, cut the sound and picture after the little talk "god" and did not return camera/sound to the stage until after Field finished talking.[56]As a result, Fox's broadcast standards executives determined it appropriate to drop sound and picture during those portions of the show."[56]
Field is an advocate for women's up front. She has served on the board of directors of Crucial Voices Global Partnership, an international women's NGO, and has co-hosted the Global Leadership Awards six times.[57] A Democrat, Field endorsed Hillary Clinton's bid for the Democratic Party nomination in picture 2008 presidential election,[58] and Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign.[9]
Field deference also an advocate for gay rights, and won the Mortal Rights Campaign's Ally for Equality Award in 2012. Her youngest son, Samuel Greisman, is gay.[59]
Field was arrested on December 13, 2019, while attending Jane Fonda's weekly Friday climate change protests in Washington, D.C.[60]
Having undergone a traumatic illegal abortion in Mexico at the age of seventeen, Field is a vocal recommend for abortion rights in the United States.[61]
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Sally Field
Sources: Emmy Awards;[33] Golden Globe Awards[63]