Sally Field
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 6, 1946 (age 79)
- Place of birth
- Pasadena, California, USA
- Credits
- 134
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
Forrest Gump
1994Movie
Mrs. Gump
The Amazing Spider-Man
2012Movie
Aunt May
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014Movie
Aunt May
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993Movie
Miranda Hillard
Lincoln
2012Movie
Mary Todd Lincoln
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003Movie
Victoria Rudd
Filmography
Dolly Parton: An American Original – Special Edition of 20/20
2026Movie
Self (archive footage)
Marty, Life Is Short
2026Movie
Self (archive footage)
Remarkably Bright Creatures
2026Movie
Tova Sullivan
Talking Pictures: A Movie Memories Podcast
2026TV
Self
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
2025TV
Self
80 for Brady
2023Movie
Betty
Spoiler Alert
2022Movie
Marilyn
The Last Movie Stars
2022TV
Self
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
2022Movie
Self (archive footage)
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
2022TV
Jessie Buss
I Am Burt Reynolds
2020Movie
Self (archive)
Love Letters
2020Movie
Melissa Gardner
Dispatches from Elsewhere
2020TV
Janice
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019TV
Self
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
2019Movie
Kate Keller
Maniac
2018TV
Dr. Greta Mantleray
Spielberg
2017Movie
Self
Little Evil
2017Movie
Miss Shaylock
Chelsea
2016TV
Self
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015Movie
Self (Archive)
Hello, My Name Is Doris
2015Movie
Doris Miller
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015TV
Self - Guest
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015TV
Self - Guest
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014TV
Self
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014Movie
Aunt May
Lincoln
2012Movie
Mary Todd Lincoln
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
2012Movie
Self
The Amazing Spider-Man
2012Movie
Aunt May
Finding Your Roots
2012TV
Self
The Desert of Forbidden Art
2011Movie
Voice
Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story
2010Movie
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009TV
Self - Guest
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
2008Movie
Marina Del Ray (voice)
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
2008TV
Self
Brothers & Sisters: Family Album
2007Movie
Self/Nora Walker
The Graham Norton Show
2007TV
Self
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007Movie
Self
Two Weeks
2006Movie
Anita Bergman
Brothers and Sisters
2006TV
Nora Walker
The Tony Danza Show
2004TV
Self
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003TV
Self
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003Movie
Victoria Rudd
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003TV
Self
The Court
2002TV
Justice Kate Nolan
David Copperfield
2001Movie
Betsey Trotwood
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
2001Movie
Self
Say It Isn't So
2001Movie
Valdine Wingfield
David Copperfield
2000TV
Betsey Trotwood
Where the Heart Is
2000Movie
Mama Lil
Saturday Night Live: Christmas
1999Movie
Mom (archive footage)
A Cooler Climate
1999Movie
Iris
The Directors
1999TV
Self
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
1998TV
Self - Host
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
1998Movie
Self / Host
From the Earth to the Moon
1998TV
Trudy Cooper
Merry Christmas, George Bailey
1997Movie
Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
The View
1997TV
Self - Guest, Self
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
1997Movie
Self
King of the Hill
1997TV
Junie Harper (voice)
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996Movie
Self
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
1996Movie
Sassy (voice)
Eye for an Eye
1996Movie
Karen McCann
A Woman of Independent Means
1995TV
Bess Alcott Steed Garner
ER
1994TV
Maggie Wyczenski
Inside the Actors Studio
1994TV
Self
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
1994Movie
Self
Forrest Gump
1994Movie
Mrs. Gump
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994Movie
Self (archive footage)
A Century of Cinema
1994Movie
Self
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993Movie
Miranda Hillard
Intimate Portrait
1993TV
Self (archive footage)
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
1993Movie
Sassy (voice)
The Larry Sanders Show
1992TV
Sally Field
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992TV
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991Movie
Self - Hostess
Soapdish
1991Movie
Celeste Talbert
Voices That Care
1991Movie
Self - Choir Member
Not Without My Daughter
1991Movie
Betty Mahmoody
Steel Magnolias
1989Movie
M'Lynn Eatenton
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989Movie
Self (voice)
Punchline
1988Movie
Lilah Krytsick
Surrender
1987Movie
Daisy Morgan
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987Movie
Self
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986Movie
Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)
Murphy's Romance
1985Movie
Emma Moriarty
Places in the Heart
1984Movie
Edna Spalding
Kiss Me Goodbye
1982Movie
Kay
Lily for President?
1982Movie
Beth Barber
All the Way Home
1981Movie
Mary Follet
Absence of Malice
1981Movie
Megan Carter
Back Roads
1981Movie
Amy Post
Smokey and the Bandit II
1980Movie
Carrie
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
1979Movie
Celeste Whitman
Norma Rae
1979Movie
Norma Rae
Mickey's 50
1978Movie
Self
Hooper
1978Movie
Gwen Doyle
The End
1978Movie
Mary Ellen
Ciné regards
1978TV
Self
The Greatest Stuntman Alive
1978Movie
Herself
Heroes
1977Movie
Carol Bell
Smokey and the Bandit
1977Movie
Carrie
Sybil
1976TV
Sybil
Bridger
1976Movie
Jennifer Melford
Stay Hungry
1976Movie
Mary Tate Farnsworth
Saturday Night Live
1975TV
Self - Host
Home for the Holidays
1974Movie
Christine Morgan
The Girl with Something Extra
1973TV
Sally Burton
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973TV
Self
Hitched
1973Movie
Roselle Bridgeman
Mongo's Back in Town
1971Movie
Vikki
Film '72
1971TV
Self
Marriage: Year One
1971Movie
Jane Duden
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
1971Movie
Denise "Dennie" Miller
Great Performances
1971TV
Self
Alias Smith and Jones
1971TV
Night Gallery
1970TV
Irene Evans
The Dick Cavett Show
1968TV
Self - Guest
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968TV
Self
The Flying Nun
1967TV
Sister Bertrille
The Way West
1967Movie
Mercy McBee
Hollywood Squares
1966TV
Self
Occasional Wife
1966TV
The Dating Game
1965TV
Sally Field
Gidget
1965TV
Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962TV
Self
The Merv Griffin Show
1962TV
Self
Moon Pilot
1962Movie
Beatnik Girl in Lineup (uncredited)
The Mike Douglas Show
1961TV
Self
Tony Awards
1956TV
Self - Presenter, Self - Nominee
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954TV
Self
The Oscars
1953TV
Self
The Emmy Awards
1949TV
Self - Presenter, Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944TV
Self - Nominee, Self - Self - Winner