10.0
10.0
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996
as Self
Sally Field
Also known as: Sally Margaret Field, Sally Margaret Field Mahoney
Acting
Born:November 6, 1946(age 79)
Birthplace:Pasadena, California, USA
Nationality:United States
Education:Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, Birmingham High School
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CommunityBiography
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.
Notable Works
Mrs. Doubtfire
Filmography (71 movies)
8.5
8.5
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
2019
as Kate Keller
8.5
8.5
Forrest Gump
1994
as Mrs. Gump
8.4
8.4
Remarkably Bright Creatures
2026
as Tova Sullivan
8.0
8.0
A Century of Cinema
1994
as Self
7.6
7.6
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986
as Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)
7.5
7.5
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
1994
as Self
7.3
7.3
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
2012
as Self
7.2
7.2
Norma Rae
1979
as Norma Rae
7.2
7.2
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
as Miranda Hillard
7.2
7.2
Steel Magnolias
1989
as M'Lynn Eatenton
7.2
7.2
Places in the Heart
1984
as Edna Spalding
7.1
7.1
Where the Heart Is
2000
as Mama Lil
7.0
7.0
Spoiler Alert
2022
as Marilyn
7.0
7.0
All the Way Home
1981
as Mary Follet
7.0
7.0
Smokey and the Bandit
1977
as Carrie 'Frog'
7.0
7.0
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
1993
as Sassy (voice)
6.9
6.9
Lincoln
2012
as Mary Todd Lincoln
6.8
6.8
The Amazing Spider-Man
2012
as Aunt May
6.7
6.7
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
2008
as Marina Del Ray (voice)
6.7
6.7
Dying Young
1991
Producer
6.7
6.7
Not Without My Daughter
1991
as Betty Mahmoody
6.6
6.6
Absence of Malice
1981
as Megan Carter
6.6
6.6
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
1996
as Sassy (voice)
6.6
6.6
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014
as Aunt May
6.4
6.4
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996
as Self (archive footage)
6.4
6.4
Hello, My Name Is Doris
2015
as Doris Miller
6.3
6.3
Hooper
1978
as Gwen Doyle
6.3
6.3
80 for Brady
2023
as Betty
6.3
6.3
Soapdish
1991
as Celeste Talbert
6.2
6.2
David Copperfield
2001
as Betsey Trotwood
6.2
6.2
Heroes
1977
as Carol Bell
6.2
6.2
Eye for an Eye
1996
as Karen McCann
6.1
6.1
The Christmas Tree
1996
Executive Producer
6.1
6.1
Murphy's Romance
1985
as Emma Moriarty
6.0
6.0
Two Weeks
2006
as Anita Bergman
6.0
6.0
Hitched
1973
as Roselle Bridgeman
6.0
6.0
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
2001
as Self
6.0
6.0
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
as Self
6.0
6.0
Marriage: Year One
1971
as Jane Duden
6.0
6.0
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007
as Self
5.8
5.8
Kiss Me Goodbye
1982
as Kay
5.8
5.8
Beautiful
2000
Director
5.7
5.7
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003
as Victoria Rudd
5.7
5.7
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
1971
as Denise "Dennie" Miller
5.7
5.7
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991
as Self - Hostess
5.6
5.6
Stay Hungry
1976
as Mary Tate Farnsworth
5.6
5.6
Little Evil
2017
as Miss Shaylock
5.5
5.5
The End
1978
as Mary Ellen
5.5
5.5
Smokey and the Bandit II
1980
as Carrie
5.5
5.5
Punchline
1988
as Lilah Krytsick
5.4
5.4
Moon Pilot
1962
as Beatnik Girl in Lineup (uncredited)
5.3
5.3
Home for the Holidays
1974
as Christine Morgan
5.3
5.3
Back Roads
1981
as Amy Post
5.1
5.1
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
1979
as Celeste Whitman
5.0
5.0
Merry Christmas, George Bailey!
1997
as Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
4.9
4.9
Surrender
1987
as Daisy Morgan
4.8
4.8
Mongo's Back in Town
1971
as Vikki
4.7
4.7
Say It Isn't So
2001
as Valdine Wingfield
4.7
4.7
The Desert of Forbidden Art
2011
as Voice
4.4
4.4
A Cooler Climate
1999
as Iris
The Greatest Stuntman Alive
1978
as Herself
Sybil
1976
as Sybil Dorsett
Brothers & Sisters: Family Album
2007
Mickey's 50
1978
as Self
Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story
2010
Bridger
1976
as Jennifer Melford
Love Letters
2020
as Melissa Gardner
Lily for President?
1982
as Beth Barber
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
1997
as Self
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
1998
as Self / Host
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