Acting
Sally 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.
Movies with Sally Field
Forrest Gump
1994
Remarkably Bright Creatures
2026
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014
The Amazing Spider-Man
2012
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003
Places in the Heart
1984
Lincoln
2012
Not Without My Daughter
1991
Marty, Life Is Short
2026
Steel Magnolias
1989
Smokey and the Bandit
1977
80 for Brady
2023
Where the Heart Is
2000
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
1993
Eye for an Eye
1996
Soapdish
1991
Hooper
1978
Spoiler Alert
2022
Smokey and the Bandit II
1980
Say It Isn't So
2001
The Way West
1967
Spielberg
2017
Little Evil
2017
Hello, My Name Is Doris
2015
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
1996
Norma Rae
1979
Absence of Malice
1981
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
2012
Kiss Me Goodbye
1982
Love Letters
2020
Stay Hungry
1976
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
1979
Back Roads
1981
Punchline
1988
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991
Mickey's 50
1978
Voices That Care
1991
Bridger
1976
Brothers & Sisters: Family Album
2007
The End
1978
Heroes
1977
A Cooler Climate
1999
Murphy's Romance
1985
I Am Burt Reynolds
2020
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986
Merry Christmas, George Bailey
1997
Moon Pilot
1962
Two Weeks
2006
Marriage: Year One
1971
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994
The Desert of Forbidden Art
2011
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989
Surrender
1987
David Copperfield
2001
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996
All the Way Home
1981
The Greatest Stuntman Alive
1978
A Century of Cinema
1994
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
1994
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
2001
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
2019
100 Years at the Movies
1994
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
1998
Hitched
1973
Mongo's Back in Town
1971
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
1997
Home for the Holidays
1974
Lily for President?
1982
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
1971
Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story
2010
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
2008
TV Shows with Sally Field
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
King of the Hill
1997
The Graham Norton Show
2007
ER
1994
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
The View
1997
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Great Performances
1971
Intimate Portrait
1993
Tony Awards
1956
Brothers and Sisters
2006
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Chelsea
2016
The Oscars
1953
Night Gallery
1970
The Tony Danza Show
2004
The Larry Sanders Show
1992
Finding Your Roots
2012
Maniac
2018
The Flying Nun
1967
From the Earth to the Moon
1998
Film '72
1971
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
2022
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
The Directors
1999
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
2025
Gidget
1965
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
2008
Hollywood Squares
1966
David Copperfield
2000
The Last Movie Stars
2022
Sybil
1976
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
The Dating Game
1965
Dispatches from Elsewhere
2020
The Emmy Awards
1949
The Girl with Something Extra
1973
Occasional Wife
1966
The Court
2002
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
1998
Talking Pictures: A Movie Memories Podcast
2026
A Woman of Independent Means
1995
Inside the Actors Studio
1994