Sally Field

Actor

Born November 6, 1946 in Pasadena, California, USA

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).

Filmography

Marty, Life Is Short

Self (archive footage)

Remarkably Bright Creatures

Tova Sullivan

Talking Pictures: A Movie Memories Podcast

Self

Variety & CNN Actors on Actors

Self

80 for Brady

Betty

Spoiler Alert

Marilyn

The Last Movie Stars

Self

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

Jessie Buss

I Am Burt Reynolds

Self (archive)

Love Letters

Melissa Gardner

Dispatches from Elsewhere

Janice

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Self

National Theatre Live: All My Sons

Kate Keller

Maniac

Dr. Greta Mantleray

Spielberg

Self

Little Evil

Miss Shaylock

Chelsea

Self

Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire

Self (Archive)

Hello, My Name Is Doris

Doris Miller

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Late Late Show with James Corden

Self - Guest

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Self

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Aunt May

Lincoln

Mary Todd Lincoln

Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn

Self

The Amazing Spider-Man

Aunt May

Finding Your Roots

Self

The Desert of Forbidden Art

Voice

Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Self - Guest

The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning

Marina Del Ray (voice)

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis

Self

The Graham Norton Show

Self

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

Self

Two Weeks

Anita Bergman

Brothers and Sisters

Nora Walker

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Self

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

Victoria Rudd

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Self

The Court

Justice Kate Nolan

David Copperfield

Betsey Trotwood

The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"

Self

Say It Isn't So

Valdine Wingfield

David Copperfield

Betsey Trotwood

Beautiful

Where the Heart Is

Mama Lil

A Cooler Climate

Iris

The Directors

Self

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies

Self - Host

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

Self / Host

From the Earth to the Moon

Trudy Cooper

Merry Christmas, George Bailey

Mrs. Bailey / Narrator

Eye of God

The View

Self - Guest

Lee Strasberg: The Method Man

Self

King of the Hill

Junie Harper (voice)

The Christmas Tree

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

Self (archive footage)

The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful

Self

Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco

Sassy (voice)

Eye for an Eye

Karen McCann

A Woman of Independent Means

Bess Alcott Steed Garner

Maggie Wyczenski

Inside the Actors Studio

Self

Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump

Self

Forrest Gump

Mrs. Gump

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

Self (archive footage)

A Century of Cinema

Self

Mrs. Doubtfire

Miranda Hillard

Intimate Portrait

Self (archive footage)

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

Sassy (voice)

The Larry Sanders Show

Sally Field

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

Self - Hostess

Dying Young

Soapdish

Celeste Talbert

Voices That Care

Self - Choir Member

Not Without My Daughter

Betty Mahmoody

Steel Magnolias

M'Lynn Eatenton

Punchline

Lilah Krytsick

Surrender

Daisy Morgan

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Self

Barbra Streisand: One Voice

Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)

Murphy's Romance

Emma Moriarty

Places in the Heart

Edna Spalding

Kiss Me Goodbye

Kay

Lily for President?

Beth Barber

All the Way Home

Mary Follet

Absence of Malice

Megan Carter

Back Roads

Amy Post

Smokey and the Bandit II

Carrie

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

Celeste Whitman

Norma Rae

Mickey's 50

Self

Hooper

Gwen Doyle

The End

Mary Ellen

The Greatest Stuntman Alive

Herself

Heroes

Carol Bell

Smokey and the Bandit

Carrie 'Frog'

Sybil

Bridger

Jennifer Melford

Stay Hungry

Mary Tate Farnsworth

Saturday Night Live

Self - Host

Home for the Holidays

Christine Morgan

The Girl with Something Extra

Sally Burton

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

Self

Hitched

Roselle Bridgeman

Mongo's Back in Town

Vikki

Marriage: Year One

Jane Duden

Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring

Denise "Dennie" Miller

Great Performances

Self

Alias Smith and Jones

Night Gallery

Irene Evans

The Dick Cavett Show

Self - Guest

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Self

The Flying Nun

Sister Bertrille

The Way West

Mercy McBee

Hollywood Squares

Self

Occasional Wife

The Dating Game

Sally Field

Gidget

Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self

The Merv Griffin Show

Self

Moon Pilot

Beatnik Girl in Lineup (uncredited)

The Mike Douglas Show

Self

Tony Awards

Self - Presenter

The Wonderful World of Disney

Self

The Oscars

Self

The Emmy Awards

Self - Presenter

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Nominee