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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.
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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.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
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.
Gender
Female
Birthday
November 6, 1946
Birthplace
Pasadena, California, USA
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Forrest Gump
1994
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014
The Amazing Spider-Man
2012
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
Lincoln
2012
Remarkably Bright Creatures
2026
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003
Steel Magnolias
1989
Smokey and the Bandit
1977
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
1993
Where the Heart Is
2000
Spielberg
2017
Not Without My Daughter
1991
Hello, My Name Is Doris
2015
Smokey and the Bandit II
1980
80 for Brady
2023
Places in the Heart
1984
Eye for an Eye
1996
Soapdish
1991
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
1996
+ 53 more movies
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Saturday Night Live
1975
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
ER
1994
King of the Hill
1997
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The View
1997
Great Performances
1971
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Tony Awards
1956
Tony Awards
1956
Brothers and Sisters
2006
+ 34 more TV shows