Sally Field
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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. 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.
Known for
Credits
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
as Miranda Hillard
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Remarkably Bright Creatures (2026)
as Tova Sullivan
Forrest Gump (1994)
as Mrs. Gump
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
as Aunt May
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
as Aunt May
Places in the Heart (1984)
as Edna Spalding
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)
as Victoria Rudd
Lincoln (2012)
as Mary Todd Lincoln
Not Without My Daughter (1991)
as Betty Mahmoody
Steel Magnolias (1989)
as M'Lynn Eatenton
Marty, Life Is Short (2026)
as Self (archive footage)
Where the Heart Is (2000)
as Mama Lil
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
as Carrie 'Frog'
Little Evil (2017)
as Miss Shaylock
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993)
as Sassy (voice)
Eye for an Eye (1996)
as Karen McCann
Stay Hungry (1976)
as Mary Tate Farnsworth
The Way West (1967)
as Mercy McBee
80 for Brady (2023)
as Betty
Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015)
as Doris Miller
Spielberg (2017)
as Self
Spoiler Alert (2022)
as Marilyn
Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)
as Carrie
Absence of Malice (1981)
as Megan Carter
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996)
as Sassy (voice)
Soapdish (1991)
as Celeste Talbert
Norma Rae (1979)
as Norma Rae
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
as Celeste Whitman
Back Roads (1981)
as Amy Post
Say It Isn't So (2001)
as Valdine Wingfield
Hooper (1978)
as Gwen Doyle
David Copperfield (2001)
as Betsey Trotwood
The End (1978)
as Mary Ellen
Heroes (1977)
as Carol Bell
Brothers & Sisters: Family Album (2007)
as Self/Nora Walker
Moon Pilot (1962)
as Beatnik Girl in Lineup (uncredited)
Mickey's 50 (1978)
as Self
Two Weeks (2006)
as Anita Bergman
Punchline (1988)
as Lilah Krytsick
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn (2012)
as Self
Murphy's Romance (1985)
as Emma Moriarty
Kiss Me Goodbye (1982)
as Kay
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! (1994)
as Self (archive footage)
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels (1996)
as Self (archive footage)
Love Letters (2020)
as Melissa Gardner
Barbra Streisand: One Voice (1986)
as Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1987)
as Self
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump (1994)
as Self
A Century of Cinema (1994)
as Self
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991)
as Self - Hostess
Voices That Care (1991)
as Self - Choir Member
A Cooler Climate (1999)
as Iris
Surrender (1987)
as Daisy Morgan
Merry Christmas, George Bailey (1997)
as Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
Home for the Holidays (1974)
as Christine Morgan
I Am Burt Reynolds (2020)
as Self (archive)
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre (1989)
as Self (voice)
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful (1996)
as Self
Lily for President? (1982)
as Beth Barber
Hitched (1973)
as Roselle Bridgeman
The Desert of Forbidden Art (2011)
as Voice
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire (2015)
as Self (Archive)
Marriage: Year One (1971)
as Jane Duden
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo (2007)
as Self
All the Way Home (1981)
as Mary Follet
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies (1998)
as Self / Host
Mongo's Back in Town (1971)
as Vikki
Bridger (1976)
as Jennifer Melford
National Theatre Live: All My Sons (2019)
as Kate Keller
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring (1971)
as Denise "Dennie" Miller
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice" (2001)
as Self
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man (1997)
as Self
Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story (2010)
Actor
The Greatest Stuntman Alive (1978)
as Herself
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning (2008)
as Marina Del Ray (voice)