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Sally Field

1946-11-06 (77 years old) 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). 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.

Movies

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80 for Brady
64.24000000000001 %|Feb 3, 2023
Drama, Comedy
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Spoiler Alert
70 %|Dec 2, 2022
Romance, Comedy, Drama
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Love Letters
0 %|May 21, 2020
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Spielberg
76 %|Oct 5, 2017
Documentary
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Little Evil
56 %|Aug 8, 2017
Comedy, Horror
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Hello, My Name Is Doris
64 %|Nov 27, 2015
Comedy, Drama, Romance
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2
65 %|Apr 16, 2014
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
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Lincoln
69 %|Nov 9, 2012
History, Drama
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The Amazing Spider-Man
67 %|Jun 23, 2012
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
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The Desert of Forbidden Art
47 %|Mar 18, 2011
History, Documentary
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The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
67.15 %|Aug 25, 2008
Family, Animation
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Two Weeks
60 %|Oct 20, 2006
Comedy, Drama
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Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
57 %|Jul 2, 2003
Comedy, Romance
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David Copperfield
63 %|Dec 25, 2001
TV Movie, Drama
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The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
60 %|Jun 13, 2001
Documentary
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Say It Isn't So
47 %|Mar 10, 2001
Comedy, Romance
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Where the Heart Is
71 %|Apr 27, 2000
Comedy, Drama, Romance
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A Cooler Climate
47 %|Aug 22, 1999
Drama, TV Movie
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Merry Christmas, George Bailey!
0 %|Dec 25, 1997
Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, TV Movie
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Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
0 %|Jul 23, 1997
Documentary
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Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
62 %|May 19, 1996
Documentary
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The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
100 %|Mar 17, 1996
Documentary, History, TV Movie
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Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
66 %|Mar 8, 1996
Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
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Eye for an Eye
61 %|Jan 12, 1996
Thriller
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Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
76 %|Oct 1, 1994
Documentary
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Forrest Gump
84.72 %|Jun 23, 1994
Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
70 %|May 18, 1994
Family, TV Movie, Documentary
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A Century of Cinema
80 %|Jan 1, 1994
Documentary
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Mrs. Doubtfire
71.95 %|Nov 24, 1993
Comedy, Drama, Family
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Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
70 %|Feb 3, 1993
Adventure, Comedy, Family
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Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
57 %|Jul 15, 1991
Documentary, History, TV Movie
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Soapdish
62 %|May 31, 1991
Comedy
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Voices That Care
80 %|Feb 28, 1991
Documentary
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Not Without My Daughter
66 %|Jan 11, 1991
Drama, Thriller
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Steel Magnolias
72 %|Nov 15, 1989
Comedy, Drama, Romance
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
60 %|Nov 22, 1988
Documentary
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Punchline
54 %|Oct 7, 1988
Comedy, Drama
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Surrender
49 %|Oct 9, 1987
Comedy
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Barbra Streisand: One Voice
76 %|Dec 27, 1986
Music, TV Movie, Documentary
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Murphy's Romance
60 %|Dec 25, 1985
Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Places in the Heart
72 %|Sep 11, 1984
Drama
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Kiss Me Goodbye
57.5 %|Dec 22, 1982
Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
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Lily for President?
0 %|May 20, 1982
TV Movie, Comedy
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All the Way Home
70 %|Dec 21, 1981
Drama, TV Movie
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Absence of Malice
66 %|Nov 19, 1981
Drama, Romance
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Back Roads
56 %|Mar 13, 1981
Comedy, Romance
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Smokey and the Bandit II
55 %|Aug 15, 1980
Action, Comedy
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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
51 %|May 18, 1979
Action, Adventure, Drama
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Norma Rae
71 %|Mar 2, 1979
Drama
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Mickey's 50
0 %|Nov 19, 1978
Documentary, Family
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Hooper
63 %|Jul 28, 1978
Action, Comedy
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The End
55 %|May 10, 1978
Comedy
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Heroes
62 %|Nov 4, 1977
Drama, Romance, War
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Smokey and the Bandit
69.50999999999999 %|May 26, 1977
Action, Adventure, Comedy
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Sybil
0 %|Nov 14, 1976
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Bridger
0 %|Sep 10, 1976
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Stay Hungry
57 %|Apr 23, 1976
Comedy, Drama
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Home for the Holidays
54 %|Jul 13, 1974
Horror, Thriller, TV Movie
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Mongo's Back in Town
48 %|Dec 10, 1971
Crime, Action, Drama, TV Movie
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Marriage: Year One
60 %|Oct 15, 1971
Drama, TV Movie
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Hitched
60 %|Mar 31, 1971
Comedy, Western, TV Movie
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The Way West
60 %|May 24, 1967
Action, Adventure, Drama, Western

Series

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The Last Movie Stars
68 %|Jul 21, 2022
Documentary
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Dispatches from Elsewhere
67 %|Mar 1, 2020
Drama, Mystery
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The Kelly Clarkson Show
61.959999999999994 %|Sep 9, 2019
Talk
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Maniac
73.76 %|Sep 21, 2018
Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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Chelsea
52 %|May 11, 2016
Talk, Comedy
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
65 %|Sep 8, 2015
Comedy, Talk
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The Late Late Show with James Corden
54.13 %|Mar 23, 2015
Talk
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Finding Your Roots
62.5 %|Mar 24, 2012
Documentary
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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
49 %|Jul 16, 2009
Talk, Comedy
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Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
75 %|Jan 4, 2008
Comedy, Talk
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The Graham Norton Show
72 %|Feb 22, 2007
Comedy, Talk
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Brothers and Sisters
71 %|Sep 24, 2006
Drama
actor
The Tony Danza Show
61 %|Sep 13, 2004
Talk
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show
58 %|Sep 8, 2003
Comedy, Talk
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
55 %|Jan 26, 2003
Talk, Comedy
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The Court
100 %|Mar 26, 2002
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
80 %|Jun 23, 1998
Documentary
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From the Earth to the Moon
82 %|Apr 5, 1998
Action & Adventure, Drama
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The View
45 %|Aug 11, 1997
Talk
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King of the Hill
73 %|Jan 12, 1997
Animation, Comedy, Family
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A Woman of Independent Means
100 %|Feb 19, 1995
Drama
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ER
78.14 %|Sep 19, 1994
Drama
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Inside the Actors Studio
73 %|Aug 14, 1994
Talk
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Intimate Portrait
45 %|Nov 14, 1993
Documentary
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The Larry Sanders Show
76.75 %|Aug 15, 1992
Comedy
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
54 %|May 25, 1992
Talk, Comedy
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Sybil
74 %|Nov 14, 1976
Drama
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Saturday Night Live
69 %|Oct 11, 1975
Comedy, News
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The Girl with Something Extra
75 %|Sep 14, 1973
Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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Great Performances
49 %|Jan 28, 1971
Comedy, Documentary, Drama
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Alias Smith and Jones
69 %|Jan 5, 1971
Western, Crime
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Night Gallery
78 %|Dec 16, 1970
Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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The Dick Cavett Show
66 %|Jun 6, 1968
Talk
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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
64 %|Sep 9, 1967
Comedy
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The Flying Nun
65.14999999999999 %|Sep 7, 1967
Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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Hollywood Squares
81.67 %|Oct 17, 1966
Comedy, Reality, Family
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Occasional Wife
75 %|Sep 13, 1966
Comedy
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Gidget
64 %|Sep 15, 1965
Comedy
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
73.60000000000001 %|Oct 1, 1962
Talk
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The Mike Douglas Show
48 %|Dec 11, 1961
Comedy, Talk
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Tony Awards
50 %|Apr 1, 1956
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Tony Awards
50 %|Apr 1, 1956
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The Wonderful World of Disney
76 %|Oct 27, 1954
Action & Adventure, Animation, Documentary, Kids, Family
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The Oscars
70 %|Mar 19, 1953
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The Emmy Awards
75 %|Jan 25, 1949
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Golden Globe Awards
68 %|Jan 20, 1944
Talk