
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.
127 acting credits · 3 directing credits
Acting · 127

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015

The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019

The Graham Norton Show
2007

Remarkably Bright Creatures
2026

Saturday Night Live
1975

ER
1994

King of the Hill
1997

The Mike Douglas Show
1961

Golden Globe Awards
1944

The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015

The View
1997

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003

Great Performances
1971

Forrest Gump
1994

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014

Tony Awards
1956

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003

The Merv Griffin Show
1962

Brothers and Sisters
2006

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992

From the Earth to the Moon
1998

The Dick Cavett Show
1968

Night Gallery
1970

The Larry Sanders Show
1992

Intimate Portrait
1993

Finding Your Roots
2012

The Amazing Spider-Man
2012

The Oscars
1953

The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014
The Tony Danza Show
2004

Chelsea
2016

The Flying Nun
1967

Alias Smith and Jones
1971

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
2022

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968

Maniac
2018

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
2008

The Directors
1999

The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973

Gidget
1965

Mrs. Doubtfire
1993

Hollywood Squares
1966

The Last Movie Stars
2022

The Wonderful World of Disney
1954

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003

Occasional Wife
1966

Lincoln
2012

Dispatches from Elsewhere
2020

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
2004

The Emmy Awards
1949

The Court
2002

Marty, Life Is Short
2026

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
1993

Smokey and the Bandit
1977

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
1998

Steel Magnolias
1989

Places in the Heart
1984

Sybil
1976

Eye for an Eye
1996

Where the Heart Is
2000

The Girl with Something Extra
1973

Spielberg
2017

Smokey and the Bandit II
1980

Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
1996

Not Without My Daughter
1991

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996

Hello, My Name Is Doris
2015

A Woman of Independent Means
1995

80 for Brady
2023

Hooper
1978

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994

Soapdish
1991

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
1979

Spoiler Alert
2022

David Copperfield
2000

Absence of Malice
1981

Heroes
1977

Say It Isn't So
2001

Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
2012

The Way West
1967

Norma Rae
1979

Punchline
1988

Stay Hungry
1976

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987

Inside the Actors Studio
1994

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989

National Theatre Live: All My Sons
2019

Back Roads
1981

Murphy's Romance
1985

The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996

A Cooler Climate
1999

David Copperfield
2001

Home for the Holidays
1974

Little Evil
2017

Surrender
1987

Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986

Kiss Me Goodbye
1982

The End
1978

Two Weeks
2006

Hitched
1973

Moon Pilot
1962

A Century of Cinema
1994

Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
1994

Love Letters
2020

Merry Christmas, George Bailey
1997

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
1998

Mickey's 50
1978

Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
1971

The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007

I Am Burt Reynolds
2020

Voices That Care
1991

Mongo's Back in Town
1971

Bridger
1976

The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
2001

Lily for President?
1982

Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
1997

Marriage: Year One
1971

The Desert of Forbidden Art
2011

Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015

All the Way Home
1981

Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story
2010
Brothers & Sisters: Family Album
2007

The Greatest Stuntman Alive
1978

The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
2008

