Sally Field

Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American actress who has received 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 and two British Academy Film Awards.

Field began her career in television, appearing in the comedies *Gidget* (1965–1966), *The Flying Nun* (1967–1970), and *The Girl with Something Extra* (1973–1974). In 1967, she also appeared in the western *The Way West*. In 1976, she received critical acclaim for her performance in the television film *Sybil*, for which she won 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 gained momentum in the 1970s with roles in *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 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. In 2000, she made her stage debut with Edward Albee's *The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?*. For her portrayal of Nora Walker in the ABC 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 film. 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 a revival of Tennessee Williams's *The Glass Menagerie*, for which she 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.