Sally Field
Known for Acting · 127 credits
- Born
- 1946-11-06 (age 79)
- Place of birth
- Pasadena, California, USA
- Also known as
- Sally Margaret Field
Biography
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
TV Shows (51)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
as Self
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
ER
1994
as Maggie Wyczenski
King of the Hill
1997
as Junie Harper (voice)
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee / Self - Self - Winner
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
as Self - Guest
The View
1997
as Self - Guest
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self
Great Performances
1971
as Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Presenter / Self - Nominee
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
Brothers and Sisters
2006
as Nora Walker
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
From the Earth to the Moon
1998
as Trudy Cooper
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
Night Gallery
1970
as Irene Evans
The Larry Sanders Show
1992
as Sally Field
Intimate Portrait
1993
as Self (archive footage)
Finding Your Roots
2012
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self
The Tony Danza Show
2004
as Self
Chelsea
2016
as Self
The Flying Nun
1967
as Sister Bertrille
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
2022
as Jessie Buss
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
as Self
Maniac
2018
as Dr. Greta Mantleray
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
2008
as Self
The Directors
1999
as Self
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
as Self
Gidget
1965
as Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence
Hollywood Squares
1966
as Self
The Last Movie Stars
2022
as Self
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
as Self
Occasional Wife
1966
Dispatches from Elsewhere
2020
as Janice
The Emmy Awards
1949
as Self - Presenter
The Court
2002
as Justice Kate Nolan
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
1998
as Self - Host
Sybil
1976
as Sybil
The Girl with Something Extra
1973
as Sally Burton
A Woman of Independent Means
1995
as Bess Alcott Steed Garner
David Copperfield
2000
as Betsey Trotwood
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
Movies (76)
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
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
as Miranda Hillard
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003
as Victoria Rudd
Lincoln
2012
as Mary Todd Lincoln
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
2004
as Carrie 'Frog' (uncredited/archive footage)
Marty, Life Is Short
2026
as Self (archive footage)
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
1993
as Sassy (voice)
Smokey and the Bandit
1977
as Carrie 'Frog'
Steel Magnolias
1989
as M'Lynn Eatenton
Places in the Heart
1984
as Edna Spalding
Eye for an Eye
1996
as Karen McCann
Where the Heart Is
2000
as Mama Lil
Spielberg
2017
as Self
Smokey and the Bandit II
1980
as Carrie
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
1996
as Sassy (voice)
Not Without My Daughter
1991
as Betty Mahmoody
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996
as Self (archive footage)
Hello, My Name Is Doris
2015
as Doris Miller
80 for Brady
2023
as Betty
Hooper
1978
as Gwen Doyle
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994
as Self (archive footage)
Soapdish
1991
as Celeste Talbert
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
1979
as Celeste Whitman
Spoiler Alert
2022
as Marilyn
Absence of Malice
1981
as Megan Carter
Heroes
1977
as Carol Bell
Say It Isn't So
2001
as Valdine Wingfield
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
2012
as Self
The Way West
1967
as Mercy McBee
Norma Rae
1979
as Norma Rae
Punchline
1988
as Lilah Krytsick
Stay Hungry
1976
as Mary Tate Farnsworth
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
as Self
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991
as Self - Hostess
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989
as Self (voice)
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
2019
as Kate Keller
Back Roads
1981
as Amy Post
Murphy's Romance
1985
as Emma Moriarty
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996
as Self
A Cooler Climate
1999
as Iris
David Copperfield
2001
as Betsey Trotwood
Home for the Holidays
1974
as Christine Morgan
Little Evil
2017
as Miss Shaylock
Surrender
1987
as Daisy Morgan
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986
as Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)
Kiss Me Goodbye
1982
as Kay
The End
1978
as Mary Ellen
Two Weeks
2006
as Anita Bergman
Hitched
1973
as Roselle Bridgeman
Moon Pilot
1962
as Beatnik Girl in Lineup (uncredited)
A Century of Cinema
1994
as Self
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
1994
as Self
Love Letters
2020
as Melissa Gardner
Merry Christmas, George Bailey
1997
as Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
1998
as Self / Host
Mickey's 50
1978
as Self
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
1971
as Denise "Dennie" Miller
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007
as Self
I Am Burt Reynolds
2020
as Self (archive)
Voices That Care
1991
as Self - Choir Member
Mongo's Back in Town
1971
as Vikki
Bridger
1976
as Jennifer Melford
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
2001
as Self
Lily for President?
1982
as Beth Barber
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
1997
as Self
Marriage: Year One
1971
as Jane Duden
The Desert of Forbidden Art
2011
as Voice
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015
as Self (Archive)
All the Way Home
1981
as Mary Follet
Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story
2010
Brothers & Sisters: Family Album
2007
as Self/Nora Walker
The Greatest Stuntman Alive
1978
as Herself
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
2008
as Marina Del Ray (voice)
About Sally Field
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 W… With 127 credits spanning from 1944 to 2026, Sally Field has appeared in 76 films and 51 TV shows.
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Most Popular Sally Field Movies
- 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
- Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) — as Miranda Hillard
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