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 Ton ... y 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.
| Organization | Category | Movie | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Globes | Best Actress | Steel Magnolias | Nominated |
| Golden Globes | Best Actress | Places in the Heart | Nominated |
| BAFTA Awards | Best Actress | Steel Magnolias | Nominated |
Brothers and Sisters
as Nora Walker
Episodes: 109
First Aired: Sep 24, 2006
The Flying Nun
as Sister Bertrille
Episodes: 82
First Aired: Sep 07, 1967
Gidget
as Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence
Episodes: 32
First Aired: Sep 15, 1965
The Girl with Something Extra
as Sally Burton
Episodes: 22
First Aired: Sep 14, 1973
ER
as Maggie Wyczenski
Episodes: 11
First Aired: Sep 19, 1994
Maniac
as Dr. Greta Mantleray
Episodes: 10
First Aired: Sep 21, 2018
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
as Jessie Buss
Episodes: 10
First Aired: Mar 06, 2022
Dispatches from Elsewhere
as Janice
Episodes: 10
First Aired: Mar 01, 2020
The Court
as Justice Kate Nolan
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Mar 26, 2002
A Woman of Independent Means
as Bess Alcott Steed Garner
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Feb 19, 1995
Sybil
as Sybil
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Nov 14, 1976
King of the Hill
as Junie Harper (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 12, 1997
Night Gallery
as Irene Evans
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 16, 1970
The Larry Sanders Show
as Sally Field
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 15, 1992
From the Earth to the Moon
as Trudy Cooper
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 05, 1998
Hollywood Squares
as Self
Episodes: 5
First Aired: Oct 17, 1966
The Last Movie Stars
as Self
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Jul 21, 2022
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
as Self - Host
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Jun 23, 1998
The View
as Self
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Aug 11, 1997
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Episodes: 3
First Aired: May 25, 1992
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Jul 16, 2009
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Jan 20, 1944
Alias Smith and Jones
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Jan 05, 1971
Finding Your Roots
as Self
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Mar 24, 2012
The Oscars
as Self
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Mar 19, 1953
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Feb 22, 2007
The Tony Danza Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 13, 2004
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 14, 1994
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 08, 2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 26, 2003
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 09, 1967
Intimate Portrait
as Self (archive footage)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Nov 14, 1993
Occasional Wife
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 13, 1966
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 11, 1975
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 23, 2015
Chelsea
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: May 11, 2016
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 02, 1973
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 09, 2019
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 11, 1961
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 01, 1962
The Emmy Awards
as Self - Presenter
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 25, 1949
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 08, 2015
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 06, 1968
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 27, 1954
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 04, 2008
Great Performances
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 28, 1971
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 01, 1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 01, 1956
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter/Winner
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 20, 1944
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 21, 2014
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Winner
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 20, 1944
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