Acting
Sally Field
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
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Film · 2026
Marty, Life Is Short
Film · 2026
Dolly Parton: An American Original – Special Edition of 20/20
Film · 2026
Talking Pictures: A Movie Memories Podcast
Series · 2026
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
Series · 2025
80 for Brady
Film · 2023
Spoiler Alert
Film · 2022
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
Film · 2022
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Series · 2022
The Last Movie Stars
Series · 2022
Love Letters
Film · 2020
I Am Burt Reynolds
Film · 2020
Dispatches from Elsewhere
Series · 2020
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
Film · 2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Series · 2019
Maniac
Series · 2018
Little Evil
Film · 2017
Spielberg
Film · 2017
Chelsea
Series · 2016
Hello, My Name Is Doris
Film · 2015
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
Film · 2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Series · 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Series · 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Series · 2015
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Film · 2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Series · 2014
Lincoln
Film · 2012
The Amazing Spider-Man
Film · 2012
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
Film · 2012
Finding Your Roots
Series · 2012
The Desert of Forbidden Art
Film · 2011
Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story
Film · 2010
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Series · 2009
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
Film · 2008
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
Series · 2008
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Film · 2007
Brothers & Sisters: Family Album
Film · 2007
The Graham Norton Show
Series · 2007
Two Weeks
Film · 2006
Brothers and Sisters
Series · 2006
The Tony Danza Show
Series · 2004
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Film · 2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Series · 2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Series · 2003
The Court
Series · 2002
Say It Isn't So
Film · 2001
David Copperfield
Film · 2001
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
Film · 2001
Where the Heart Is
Film · 2000
David Copperfield
Series · 2000
A Cooler Climate
Film · 1999
Saturday Night Live: Christmas
Film · 1999
The Directors
Series · 1999
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
Film · 1998
From the Earth to the Moon
Series · 1998
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
Series · 1998
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
Film · 1997
Merry Christmas, George Bailey
Film · 1997
King of the Hill
Series · 1997
The View
Series · 1997
The View
Series · 1997
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
Film · 1996
Eye for an Eye
Film · 1996
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Film · 1996
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Film · 1996
A Woman of Independent Means
Series · 1995
Forrest Gump
Film · 1994
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Film · 1994
A Century of Cinema
Film · 1994
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Film · 1994
Inside the Actors Studio
Series · 1994
ER
Series · 1994
Mrs. Doubtfire
Film · 1993
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Film · 1993
Intimate Portrait
Series · 1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Series · 1992
The Larry Sanders Show
Series · 1992
Soapdish
Film · 1991
Not Without My Daughter
Film · 1991
Voices That Care
Film · 1991
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Film · 1991
Steel Magnolias
Film · 1989
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Film · 1989
Punchline
Film · 1988
Surrender
Film · 1987
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Film · 1987
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Film · 1986
Murphy's Romance
Film · 1985
Places in the Heart
Film · 1984
Kiss Me Goodbye
Film · 1982
Lily for President?
Film · 1982
Back Roads
Film · 1981
Absence of Malice
Film · 1981
All the Way Home
Film · 1981
Smokey and the Bandit II
Film · 1980
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
Film · 1979
Norma Rae
Film · 1979
The End
Film · 1978
Hooper
Film · 1978
Mickey's 50
Film · 1978
The Greatest Stuntman Alive
Film · 1978
Ciné regards
Series · 1978
Smokey and the Bandit
Film · 1977
Heroes
Film · 1977
Stay Hungry
Film · 1976
Bridger
Film · 1976
Sybil
Series · 1976
Saturday Night Live
Series · 1975
Home for the Holidays
Film · 1974
Hitched
Film · 1973
The Girl with Something Extra
Series · 1973
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Series · 1973
Mongo's Back in Town
Film · 1971
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
Film · 1971
Marriage: Year One
Film · 1971
Alias Smith and Jones
Series · 1971
Great Performances
Series · 1971
Film '72
Series · 1971
Night Gallery
Series · 1970
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Series · 1968
The Dick Cavett Show
Series · 1968
The Way West
Film · 1967
The Flying Nun
Series · 1967
Occasional Wife
Series · 1966
Hollywood Squares
Series · 1966
Gidget
Series · 1965
The Dating Game
Series · 1965
Moon Pilot
Film · 1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Series · 1962
The Merv Griffin Show
Series · 1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Series · 1961
Tony Awards
Series · 1956
Tony Awards
Series · 1956
The Wonderful World of Disney
Series · 1954
The Oscars
Series · 1953
The Emmy Awards
Series · 1949
The Emmy Awards
Series · 1949
Golden Globe Awards
Series · 1944
Golden Globe Awards
Series · 1944