Biography
Sally Margaret Field, born on November 6, 1946, is an acclaimed American actress. Throughout her career, she has earned numerous 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 as well as two British Academy Film Awards.
Field began her career in television with leading roles in comedies such as Gidget (1965–1966), The Flying Nun (1967–1970), and The Girl with Something Extra (1973–1974). In 1967, she appeared in the western film The Way West. She gained critical acclaim in 1976 for her performance in the TV film Sybil, winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. Her film debut was a small role in Moon Pilot (1962). During the 1970s, her film career grew with starring roles in Stay Hungry (1976), Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Heroes (1977), The End (1978), and Hooper (1978). In the 1980s, she won two Academy Awards for Best Actress for Norma Rae (1979) and Places in the Heart (1984). She also 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 NBC’s medical drama ER, winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2001. The following year, she made her stage debut in Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?. From 2006 to 2011, she portrayed Nora Walker in the ABC family drama Brothers & Sisters, earning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. In 2012, she played Mary Todd Lincoln in Lincoln, receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. That same year, she appeared as Aunt May in The Amazing Spider-Man and reprised the role in its 2014 sequel, the first of which became her highest-grossing film. In 2015, she starred as the title character in Hello, My Name Is Doris, earning a Critics' Choice Movie Award nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy. After a 15-year hiatus from the stage, she returned in 2017 with the revival of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, receiving a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play. She was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2014 and received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2019.
33 wins and 52 nominations
