Sally Field
Known for: Acting
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
Series
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
2009
Series
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Series
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
Series
King of the Hill
Junie Harper (voice)
1997
Series
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
2019
Series
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975
Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Film
The Amazing Spider-Man
Aunt May
2012
Film
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Aunt May
2014
Series
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
Series
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
Series
ER
Maggie Wyczenski
1994
Series
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
2015
Series
The View
Self - Guest
1997
Series
The View
Self
1997
Series
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
2003
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Self - Winner
1944
Series
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
1956
Series
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
1956
Film
Forrest Gump
Mrs. Gump
1994
Series
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Series
Great Performances
Self
1971
Series
Ciné regards
Self
1978
Series
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
Film
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Tova Sullivan
2026
Series
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
2003
Series
The Flying Nun
Sister Bertrille
1967
Series
Brothers and Sisters
Nora Walker
2006
Series
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
Series
The Larry Sanders Show
Sally Field
1992
Series
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Series
The Oscars
Self
1953
Series
Night Gallery
Irene Evans
1970
Series
Intimate Portrait
Self (archive footage)
1993
Film '72
Self
1971
Film
Mrs. Doubtfire
Miranda Hillard
1993
Series
Chelsea
Self
2016
The Tony Danza Show
Self
2004
Series
Maniac
Dr. Greta Mantleray
2018
Series
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self
1968
Series
Finding Your Roots
Self
2012
Series
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Jessie Buss
2022
Series
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Series
From the Earth to the Moon
Trudy Cooper
1998
Series
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
Self
2025
Film
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Victoria Rudd
2003
Film
Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln
2012
Series
Gidget
Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence
1965
Series
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
Self
2008
Series
The Last Movie Stars
Self
2022
Film
Steel Magnolias
M'Lynn Eatenton
1989
Series
The Dating Game
Sally Field
1965
Film
Not Without My Daughter
Betty Mahmoody
1991
Series
The Wonderful World of Disney
Self
1954
Film
Smokey and the Bandit
Carrie
1977
Series
Hollywood Squares
Self
1966
Series
The Directors
Self
1999
Film
Where the Heart Is
Mama Lil
2000
Series
Dispatches from Elsewhere
Janice
2020
Series
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
1973
Film
Marty, Life Is Short
Self (archive footage)
2026
Film
Spoiler Alert
Marilyn
2022
Series
David Copperfield
Betsey Trotwood
2000
Film
Places in the Heart
Edna Spalding
1984
Film
80 for Brady
Betty
2023
Film
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Sassy (voice)
1993
Film
Eye for an Eye
Karen McCann
1996
Series
Sybil
Sybil
1976
Film
Smokey and the Bandit II
Carrie
1980
Film
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
Sassy (voice)
1996
Series
Occasional Wife
1966
Film
Stay Hungry
Mary Tate Farnsworth
1976
Film
The Way West
Mercy McBee
1967
Film
Soapdish
Celeste Talbert
1991
Series
The Emmy Awards
Self - Presenter
1949
Film
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
Celeste Whitman
1979
Series
The Court
Justice Kate Nolan
2002
Film
Little Evil
Miss Shaylock
2017
Series
The Girl with Something Extra
Sally Burton
1973
Film
Hooper
Gwen Doyle
1978
Film
Hello, My Name Is Doris
Doris Miller
2015
Film
Absence of Malice
Megan Carter
1981
Film
Spielberg
Self
2017
Series
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
Self - Host
1998
Film
Say It Isn't So
Valdine Wingfield
2001
Film
Norma Rae
Norma Rae
1979
Series
Talking Pictures: A Movie Memories Podcast
Self
2026
Film
Moon Pilot
Beatnik Girl in Lineup (uncredited)
1962
Series
A Woman of Independent Means
Bess Alcott Steed Garner
1995
Film
Punchline
Lilah Krytsick
1988
Film
The End
Mary Ellen
1978
Film
Back Roads
Amy Post
1981
Film
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)
1986
Film
Murphy's Romance
Emma Moriarty
1985
Film
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self
1987
Film
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Self
2007
Film
Kiss Me Goodbye
Kay
1982
Film
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
Self
2012
Film
Merry Christmas, George Bailey
Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
1997
Film
Marriage: Year One
Jane Duden
1971
Film
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Self
1994
Film
Heroes
Carol Bell
1977
Film
Bridger
Jennifer Melford
1976
Film
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Self - Hostess
1991
Film
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Self
1996
Film
A Century of Cinema
Self
1994
Film
The Desert of Forbidden Art
Voice
2011
Film
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Self (archive footage)
1996
Film
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Self (archive footage)
1994
Film
I Am Burt Reynolds
Self (archive)
2020
Film
Two Weeks
Anita Bergman
2006
Film
Love Letters
Melissa Gardner
2020
Film
Mickey's 50
Self
1978
Film
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
Kate Keller
2019
Film
Surrender
Daisy Morgan
1987
Film
David Copperfield
Betsey Trotwood
2001
Film
Mongo's Back in Town
Vikki
1971
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Self (voice)
1989
Film
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
Denise "Dennie" Miller
1971
Film
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
Self / Host
1998
Brothers & Sisters: Family Album
Self/Nora Walker
2007
Film
Voices That Care
Self - Choir Member
1991
Series
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
1994
Film
Lily for President?
Beth Barber
1982
Film
The Greatest Stuntman Alive
Herself
1978
Film
All the Way Home
Mary Follet
1981
Film
A Cooler Climate
Iris
1999
Film
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
Self
2001
Film
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
Self
1997
Film
Hitched
Roselle Bridgeman
1973
Film
Home for the Holidays
Christine Morgan
1974
Film
Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story
2010
Film
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
Self (Archive)
2015
Film
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
Marina Del Ray (voice)
2008