Personal Info
Birth date
1946-11-06 (78 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Pasadena, California, USA
Also known as
Sally Margaret Field
سالی فیلد
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.
Filmography
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
6.343
Overview:
Stephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the #1 show in late night, where he talks with an eclectic mix of guests about what is new and relevant in the worlds of politics, entertainment, business, music, technology, and more. Featuring bandleader Jon Batiste with his band Stay Human, the Emmy Award-nominated show is broadcast from the historic Ed Sullivan Theater. Stephen Colbert, Chris Licht, Tom Purcell, and Jon Stewart are executive producers. Barry Julien and Denise Rehrig serve as co-executive producers.must watchWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
5.061
Overview:
Bravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality show personalities.The Late Late Show with James Corden
5.312
Overview:
Once Craig Ferguson retires, James Corden will be taking over The Late Late Show. The show is a late night talk show that interviews celebrities and has its own bits. And of course, it's all hosted by James Corden.The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
Overview:
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.The Kelly Clarkson Show
6.422
Overview:
Kelly Clarkson presents the biggest newsmakers and names in film, television and music; as well as emerging new talent and everyday people who are beacons of hope in their communities.The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.4
Overview:
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.Great Performances
5.3
Overview:
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
5.411
Overview:
Jay Leno hosts some of the biggest celebrities in the world.The View
4.5
Overview:
ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro discussing the most exciting events of the day. Hot topics in the news, the best experts in their field, celebrity interviews and general entertainment are all part of The View.The Graham Norton Show
7.2
Overview:
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.The Ellen DeGeneres Show
5.7
Overview:
The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to just Ellen, is an American television talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres.King of the Hill
7.35
Overview:
Set in Texas, this animated series follows the life of propane salesman Hank Hill, who lives with his overly confident substitute Spanish teacher wife Peggy, wannabe comedian son Bobby, and naive niece Luanne. Hank has conservative views about God, family, and country, but his values and ethics are often challenged by the situations he, his family, and his beer-drinking neighbors/buddies find themselves in.Jimmy Kimmel Live!
5.5
Overview:
Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.The Dick Cavett Show
6.7
Overview:
The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.Golden Globe Awards
7
Overview:
An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.Saturday Night Live
6.96
Overview:
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.The Larry Sanders Show
7.699
Overview:
Comic Garry Shandling draws upon his own talk show experiences to create the character of Larry Sanders, a paranoid, insecure host of a late night talk show. Larry, along with his obsequious TV sidekick Hank Kingsley and his fiercely protective producer Artie, allows Garry Shandling and his talented writers to look behind the scenes and to show us a convincing slice of behind the camera life.The Tony Danza Show
6.1
Overview:
The Tony Danza Show was a daytime variety talk show that premiered on September 13, 2004 in syndication and was distributed by Buena Vista Television.ER
7.828
Overview:
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.Chelsea
5.118
Overview:
It's not her first talk show, but it is a first of its kind. Ideas, people and places that fascinate her, all in her unique style.Intimate Portrait
4.5
Overview:
Intimate Portrait is a biographical television series on the Lifetime Television cable network focusing on different celebrities, which includes interviews with each subject. Among the people profiled were Grace Kelly, Natalie Wood, Carly Simon, Jackie Kennedy, Katharine Hepburn, Carol Burnett, Tanya Tucker, and Marla Maples.Finding Your Roots
6.2
Overview:
Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.From the Earth to the Moon
8.181
Overview:
The story of the United States' space program, from its beginnings in 1961 to the final moon mission in 1972.Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
4.4
Overview:
PBS SoCal and Variety take you inside the biggest movies and TV shows of the past year through candid conversations with today's hottest actors. Hosted by Variety Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis and Variety Chief Correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister, each episode brings together pairs of actors engaging in intimate one-on-one discussions about their craft and work.Honest Trailers
6.5
Overview:
Trailers that tell you the TRUTH about your favorite movies and TV shows: Honest Trailers. These are the hilarious trailers the producers don't want you to see...The American Film Institute Salute to ...
6.3
Overview:
In 1973 the American Film Institute initiated its Life Achievement Award, to be presented to a yearly recipient whose talent has fundamentally advanced the film art; whose accomplishments have been acknowledged by scholars, critics, professional peers and the general public; and whose work has stood the test of time.Tony Awards
5.1
Overview:
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.Alias Smith and Jones
6.9
Overview:
Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to 1973. It stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Jedediah "Kid" Curry, a pair of cousin outlaws trying to reform. The governor offers them a conditional amnesty, as he wants to keep the pact under wraps for political reasons. The condition is that they will still be wanted— until the governor can claim they have reformed and warrant clemency.The Wonderful World of Disney
7.774
Overview:
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The show, which was hosted by Walt Disney until his death and then from 1996 to 2002 by then-CEO Michael Eisner (with one-off hosts or no hosts during other periods) has since aired continually as either a weekly program or an irregular series of specials on several networks and streaming services, most recently on ABC and Disney+. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.Acting
TBARemarkably Bright Creatures as Tova
202380 for Brady as Betty
2022Spoiler Alert as Marilyn
2022The Last Movie Stars (4 Episodes) as Self
2022Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home as Self (archive footage)
2022Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (10 Episodes) as Jessie Buss
2020Love Letters as Melissa Gardner
2020Dispatches from Elsewhere (10 Episodes) as Janice
2019The Kelly Clarkson Show (1 Episode) as Unknown
2019National Theatre Live: All My Sons as Kate Keller
2018Maniac (10 Episodes) as Dr. Greta Mantleray
2017Spielberg as Self
2017Little Evil as Miss Shaylock
2016Chelsea (1 Episode) as Self
2015Hello, My Name Is Doris as Doris Miller
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (1 Episode) as Unknown
2015The Late Late Show with James Corden (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
2014Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (1 Episode) as Self
2014The Amazing Spider-Man 2 as Aunt May
2012Lincoln as Mary Todd Lincoln
2012Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn as Self
2012The Amazing Spider-Man as Aunt May
2012Finding Your Roots (2 Episodes) as Self
2012Honest Trailers (1 Episode) as May Parker (archive footage)
2011The Desert of Forbidden Art as Voice
2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (3 Episodes) as Self - Guest
2008The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning as Marina Del Ray (voice)
2008Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis (1 Episode) as Self
2007The Graham Norton Show (2 Episodes) as Self
2007The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo as Self
2006Two Weeks as Anita Bergman
2006Brothers and Sisters (109 Episodes) as Nora Walker
2004The Tony Danza Show (1 Episode) as Self
2003The Ellen DeGeneres Show (1 Episode) as Self
2003Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde as Rep. Victoria Rudd
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! (1 Episode) as Unknown
2002The Court (6 Episodes) as Justice Kate Nolan
2001David Copperfield as Aunt Betsey Trotwood
2001The Story Behind "Absence of Malice" as Self
2001Say It Isn't So as Valdine Wingfield
2000Where the Heart Is as Mama Lil
1999A Cooler Climate as Iris
1999The Directors (1 Episode) as Self
1998AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (3 Episodes) as Self - Host
1998AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies as Self / Host
1998From the Earth to the Moon (1 Episode) as Trudy Cooper
1997Merry Christmas, George Bailey! as Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
1997The View (3 Episodes) as Self
1997Lee Strasberg: The Method Man as Self
1997King of the Hill (1 Episode) as Junie Harper (voice)
1996Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels as Self (archive footage)
1996The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful as Self
1996Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco as Sassy (voice)
1996Eye for an Eye as Karen McCann
1995A Woman of Independent Means (3 Episodes) as Bess Alcott Steed Garner
1994Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump as Self
1994ER (11 Episodes) as Maggie Wyczenski
1994Inside the Actors Studio (1 Episode) as Self
1994Forrest Gump as Mrs. Gump
1994Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! as Self (archive footage)
1994A Century of Cinema as Self
1993Mrs. Doubtfire as Miranda Hillard
1993Intimate Portrait (1 Episode) as Self (archive footage)
1993Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey as Sassy (voice)
1992The Larry Sanders Show (1 Episode) as Sally Field
1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (3 Episodes) as Unknown
1991Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire as Self - Hostess
1991Soapdish as Celeste Talbert
1991Voices That Care as Self - Choir Member
1991Not Without My Daughter as Betty Mahmoody
1989Steel Magnolias as M'Lynn Eatenton
1989Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre as Herself
1988James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self
1988Punchline as Lilah Krytsick
1987Surrender as Daisy Morgan
1986Barbra Streisand: One Voice as Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)
1985Murphy's Romance as Emma Moriarty
1984Places in the Heart as Edna Spalding
1982Kiss Me Goodbye as Kay
1982Lily for President? as Beth Barber
1981All the Way Home as Mary Follet
1981Absence of Malice as Megan Carter
1981Back Roads as Amy Post
1980Smokey and the Bandit II as Carrie
1979Beyond the Poseidon Adventure as Celeste Whitman
1979Norma Rae as Norma Rae
1978Mickey's 50 as Self
1978Hooper as Gwen Doyle
1978The End as Mary Ellen
1977Heroes as Carol Bell
1977Smokey and the Bandit as Carrie 'Frog'
1976Sybil (2 Episodes) as Sybil
1976Bridger as Jennifer Melford
1976Stay Hungry as Mary Tate Farnsworth
1975Saturday Night Live (1 Episode) as Self - Host
1974Home for the Holidays as Christine Morgan
1973The Girl with Something Extra (22 Episodes) as Sally Burton
1973The American Film Institute Salute to ... (1 Episode) as Self
1971Mongo's Back in Town as Vikki
1971Marriage: Year One as Jane Duden
1971Hitched as Roselle Bridgeman
1971Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring as Denise "Dennie" Miller
1971Great Performances (1 Episode) as Self
1971Alias Smith and Jones (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1970Night Gallery (1 Episode) as Irene Evans
1968The Dick Cavett Show (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
1968Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1, 1 Episode) as Self, Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1967The Flying Nun (82 Episodes) as Sister Bertrille
1967The Way West as Mercy McBee
1966Hollywood Squares (5 Episodes) as Self
1966Occasional Wife (1 Episode) as Unknown
1965Gidget (32 Episodes) as Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1 Episode) as Self
1961The Mike Douglas Show (1 Episode) as Self
1956Tony Awards (1, 1 Episode) as Self - Nominee, Self - Presenter
1954The Wonderful World of Disney (1 Episode) as Self
1953The Oscars (2 Episodes) as Self
1949The Emmy Awards (1 Episode) as Self - Presenter
1944Golden Globe Awards (3, 1, 1 Episode) as Self - Nominee, Self - Presenter/Winner, Self - Winner
Directing
2000Beautiful ... Director
1998From the Earth to the Moon (1 Episode) ... Director
1996The Christmas Tree ... Director
Crew
1997Eye of God ... Thanks
Writing
1996The Christmas Tree ... Teleplay
Production
1996The Christmas Tree ... Executive Producer
1995A Woman of Independent Means (3 Episodes) ... Executive Producer
1991Dying Young ... Producer