Sally Field

Sally Margaret Field (Pasadena, California, United States, November 6, 1946) is an American film and television actress.

Field is a two-time Academy Award winner for Best Actress, for her work in Norma Rae (1979) and Places In The Heart (1984). She has received three Emmy Awards for her leading role in the television movie Sybil (1976), Best Guest Actress for her role in ER (2000), and Best Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Nora Holden Walker in Brothers & ABC's Sisters (2007). She has also won two Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress, as well as the Best Female Performance Award at the Cannes Film Festival for Norma Rae (1979). In 2012, Field's widely praised portrayal of Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's film, where she plays Mary Todd Lincoln, garnered her Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Best Supporting Actress nominations. and the Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2013 she was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest and most prestigious honor societies and a leading center of independent political research in the United States. Election to the Academy has been considered one of the nation's highest honors since its founding.

Biography

Her parents were a typical Hollywood family: an actress mother and a Western actor-turned-stunt stepfather. Field began acting on television, in two popular series of the 1960s in the United States and in the Hispanic world (Gidget and the classic series La Novicia Voladora) series that they seemed to pigeonhole her in light roles.

1965-1976

Field got her start on television as the boy-crazy surfer on the sitcom Gidget (1965-1966). The show was not an initial success and was canceled after only one season; however, the summer reruns drew respectable ratings, making the show a belated success. Wanting to find a new starring vehicle for Field, ABC next produced The Flying Nun known in Latin America as The Flying Novice casting Field as Sister Bertrille for three seasons, from 1967 to 1970. In In an interview included on the season one DVD release, Field said that she was completely confused. She enjoyed Gidget but she hated The Flying Nun because the show's directors didn't treat her with respect. Field was then typecast, finding respectable roles hard to come by. In 1971, Field starred in the ABC TV movie Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring, playing a dispirited teenage runaway who returns home to a drug-addicted, bearded hippie (played by David Carradine). She made several television guest appearances in the mid-1970s, including a role on the Western Alias Smith and Jones, a popular series starring Gidget's co-star Pete Duel. She also appeared in the episode & # 34; Whisper & # 34; from the thriller Night Gallery.

In 1973, Field was cast in a leading role opposite John Davidson in the short-lived series The Girl with Something Extra which ran from 1973 to 1974. After the cancellation of the series, Field studied at the Actors Studio with acting coach Lee Strasberg, who became a mentor to Field, helping her overcome her TV girl-next-door image. During this period, Field divorced her first husband in 1975.

Shortly after studying with Strasberg, Field landed the lead role in the 1976 television movie Sybil, based on the book by Flora Rheta Schreiber. Her dramatic portrayal of a young woman afflicted with multiple personality disorder earned her an Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Special Program—Drama or Comedy in 1977 and allowed her to break the sitcom typecasting of her work..

1977–1989

In 1977, Field co-starred with Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason and Jerry Reed in the second highest-grossing film of the year, Smokey and the Bandit. In 1979, she played the incumbent union organizer in Norma Rae, a film that established her as a dramatic actress. Vincent Canby, reviewing the film for The New York Times, wrote: "Norma Rae is a seriously troubled contemporary drama, illuminated by some very good performances and one, by Miss Field, who is spectacular." For her role in Norma Rae, Field won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the Best Actress Oscar.

Field appeared with Reynolds in three more films: The End, Hooper and Smokey and the Bandit II. In 1981, she continued to change her image, playing a foul-mouthed prostitute opposite Tommy Lee Jones in the Southern-set film Back Roads. She received Golden Globe nominations for the 1981 drama Absence of Malice and the 1982 comedy Kiss Me Goodbye.

Then came a second Oscar for his starring role in the 1984 drama Places in the Heart. Since then, Field's acceptance speech has been admired as earnest and parodied as excessive. She said, 'Oh Benton, what you did for me. You changed my life, really! This means a lot more to me this time. I don't know why, I think the first time I almost didn't feel it because it was all so new. I owe a lot to the cast, to my players. To Lindsay, John, Danny, Ed and Amy, and my little friends, Gennie and Yankton. I owe a lot to my family for sticking me together and loving me and being patient with this obsession of mine. But I want to "thank you". I have not had an orthodox career. And I wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel that, but this time I feel it. And I can't deny the fact that you like me... right now... you like me! (applause) Thank you! Field was making a humorous reference to the dialogue from her role in Norma Rae but many people missed the connection. Field later parodied herself when she uttered the line (often misquoted as "You like me, you really like me!") in a commercial for Charles Schwab.

In 1985, she co-starred with James Garner in the romantic comedy Murphy's Romance. In A&E's biography of Garner, she cited her on-screen kiss with Garner as the best movie kiss she ever had. The following year, Ella Field appeared on the cover of the March 1986 issue of Playboy magazine, in which she was the subject of an interview. She did not appear as a subject pictorial in the magazine, although she did wear the classic leotard and bunny ears outfit on the cover. That year she received the Women in Film Crystal award. For her role as the matriarch of Ella M'Lynn in the film version of Steel Magnolias (1989), she was nominated for a 1990 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.

1990-present

Field had supporting roles in several other films, including Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), in which she played the wife of Robin Williams' character and the love interest of Pierce Brosnan's character. She then played Tom Hanks's mother in Forrest Gump (1994), despite the fact that she was only 10 years older than Hanks, with whom she had co-starred six years earlier in Punchline.

Field's other films of the 1990s included Not Without My Daughter, a controversial thriller based on the real-life experience of Betty Mahmoody's escape from Iran with her daughter Mahtob. And Soapdish, a comedy in which he played a pampered soap star and joined an all-star cast, including Kevin Kline, Whoopi Goldberg, Elisabeth Shue, and Robert Downey Jr. In 1996, Field received the Berlinale Camera Award at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival for her role as a grieving vigilante mother in director John Schlesinger's Eye for an Eye. In 1997, Field guest-starred in the episode "Hilloween" from King of the Hill, in which she voiced the religious Junie Harper, who is fighting with Hank Hill (Mike Judge) to ban Halloween. She co-starred with Natalie Portman in Where the Heart Is (2000) and appeared opposite Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde.

Field had a recurring role on ER in the 2000-2001 season as Dr. Abby Lockhart's mother, Maggie, who suffers from bipolar disorder, a role for which she won an Emmy Award in 2001. for the critically acclaimed show, he returned to the role in 2003 and 2006. He also starred in the short-lived 2002 series The Court.

Field's directing career began with the television movie The Christmas Tree (1996). In 1998, he directed the episode & # 34; The Original Wives & # 39; Club & # 34; from the critically acclaimed television miniseries From the Earth to the Moon also playing a minor role as Trudy, the wife of astronaut Gordon Cooper. In 2000, he directed the feature Beautiful.

Field was a late addition to the ABC drama Brothers & Sisters, which debuted in September 2006. In the show's pilot, Betty Buckley played the role of matriarch Nora Walker. However, the show's producers decided to take the character in another direction and offered the role to Field, who won the 2007 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her performance. The drama also starred Calista Flockhart and Rachel Griffiths as Nora's adult daughters. In November 2009, Field appeared on an episode of The Doctors to discuss osteoporosis and her Rally With Sally Foundation.

She played Aunt May in the Marvel Comics films The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and in the 2014 sequel. Widely praised portrayal of Mary Todd Lincoln's Campo in Steven Spielberg's film Lincoln brought her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Oscars, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild.

On May 5, 2014, Field received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to motion pictures. His star stands in front of the Hollywood Wax Museum. In January 2015, it was announced that she would co-host TCM. The same year, Field played the title character in Hello, My Name Is Doris, for which she was nominated for a Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Comedy Actress.

In 2017, Field reprized her role as Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre. Performances began on February 7, 2017, in previews, and it officially opened on March 9. The production closed on May 21, 2017. Field had previously played the role in the 2004 Kennedy Center production. She was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance. Her memoir, In Pieces, was published by Grand Central Publishing in September 2018.

Field returned to episodic television in 2018, starring in the Netflix miniseries Maniac. Later, in 2020, Field starred in the AMC series Dispatches from Elsewhere.

Field was also a part of the 2008 Disney film The Little Mermaid 3: The Origin of Ariel, voicing the villain, named Marina del Ray. She appears in Mrs. Doubtfire alongside Robin Williams in 1993 and then as Forrest Gump's mother in the film of the same name.

Field is best known today for playing Nora Walker, a family mom on the US sitcom Five Brothers.

Field is an alumnus of Birmingham High School in Los Angeles.

On January 17, 2023, she was awarded the SAG Honorary.

Filmography

• Gidget (1965)
• The way west (1967)
• Flying Nun (1967)
• Sybil (1976)
• Stay Hungry (1976)
• Heroes (1977)
• Two lucky rogues (Smokey and the Bandit(1977)
• Hooper (1978)
• The End (1978)
• Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
• Norma Rae (1979)
• Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)
• Absence of malice (Absence of Malice(1981)
• Back Roads (1981)
• Kiss Me Goodbye (1982)
• In a place of heart (Places in the Heart(1984)
• Murphy's romance (Murphy's Romance) (1985)
• Surrender (1987)
• The last laugh (Punchline(1988)
• Magnolias de acero (Steel Magnolias(1989)
• I'm not leaving without my daughter. (Not Without My Daughter(1990)
• Dad forever (Mrs. Doubtfire) (1993)
• Forrest Gump (1994)
• Eye for eye (Eye for an Eye(1996)
• Where did love stay? (Where the Heart Is) (2000)
• Tell me it's not true (Say It Isn't So) (2001)
• Legally blonde 2: more blonde than ever (Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)
• Two weeks (2006)
• Brothers " Sisters (Five brothers(TV) (2006-2011)
• The Little Mermaid 3: The Beginnings of Ariel (The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning(voz) (2008)
• Lincoln (2012)
• The Amazing Spider-Man (The amazing Spider-Man) (2012)
• The amazing Spider-Man 2: The Threat of Electro (The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro (2014)
• Hello, my name is Doris (2015)
• Dispatches from Elsewhere (TV) (2020)
• Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies (2022)

Awards

Oscar Awards

BAFTA Awards

Golden Globe Awards

Awards of the Union of Actors

Emmy Awards

Cannes International Film Festival