Sally Field , Field in Smokey and the Bandit (1977) Born Sally Margaret Field, (1946-11-06) November 6, 1946 (age 66), Pasadena, California, USA Occupation Actress, singer, producer, director, screenwriter Years active 1962-present Spouse(s) Steve Craig (m. 1968-1975) Alan Greisman (m. 1984-1993) Children Peter Craig (b. 1969), Eli Craig (b. 1972), Samuel Greisman (b. 1987) Awards Academy Awards Best Actress, 1979 Norma Rae, 1984 Places in the Heart Emmy Awards Outstanding Actress - Miniseries or Movie, 1976 Sybil, Outstanding Guest Actress - Drama Series, 2001 ER, Outstanding Lead Actress - Drama Series, 2007 Brothers & Sisters Golden Globe Awards Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama, 1979 Norma Rae, 1984 Places in the Heart Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American actress, singer, producer, director, and screenwriter. In each decade of her career, she has been known for her leading American TV and film roles, most notably in Gidget (1965-66), The Flying Nun (1967-70), Sybil (1976), Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Norma Rae (1979), Absence of Malice (1981), Places in the Heart (1984), Steel Magnolias (1989), Not Without My Daughter (1991), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Forrest Gump (1994) Eye for an Eye (1996), ER, Brothers & Sisters (2006-11), The Amazing Spider-Man and Lincoln (2012). Field is a two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress, for Norma Rae (1979) and Places in the Heart (1984). She has received three Emmy Awards for her title role in the TV film Sybil (1976), her guest role on ER (2000), and her role as Nora Holden Walker on ABC's series Brothers & Sisters (2007). She has also won two Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress, as well as the Best Female Performance Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for Norma Rae (1979). In 2012 Field's widely praised portrayal of Mary Todd Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's film Lincoln brought her Best Supporting Actress nominations for the Academy Award, the Golden Globe, and the BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild awards. Early life: Sally Field was born in Pasadena, California. Her father, Richard Dryden Field, was an Army officer, and her mother Margaret Field (née Morlan) was an actress. Her parents divorced in 1950; her mother later married actor and stuntman Jock Mahoney. Field attended Portola Middle School, followed by Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, where she was a cheerleader. Her classmates included infamous financier Michael Milken, actress Cindy Williams (of Laverne & Shirley fame) and Michael Ovitz of Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and Walt Disney Studios. Career: Television: Field got her start on television as the eponymous, boy-crazy surfer girl in the sitcom Gidget (1965-66). She went on to star as Sister Bertrille in The Flying Nun (1967-70). In an interview included on the DVD release of The Flying Nun, Field said she would have preferred to continue playing Gidget and hated being on The Flying Nun because she was not treated with respect by the show's directors. After her iconic Flying Nun role, she felt she became typecast. She later starred opposite John Davidson in the short-lived series The Girl with Something Extra (1973-74), playing a young woman trying to lead a normal life despite her telepathic abilities. In 1971, Field starred in the ABC TV movie Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring, playing a discouraged teen runaway who returns home with a bearded drug-abusing hippie (played by David Carradine). She made several guest TV appearances through the mid-1970s, including a recurring role on the western comedy Alias Smith and Jones (starring Pete Duel, with whom she had worked on Gidget) and in the Night Gallery episode "Whisper". She studied with the esteemed acting teacher Lee Strasberg, who had previously helped Marilyn Monroe transcend the "bimbo" roles with which her career had begun. Soon afterward, Field landed the title role in the 1976 TV film Sybil, based on the book by Flora Rheta Schreiber. Her dramatic portrayal of a young woman afflicted with Dissociative Identity Disorder (previously known as multiple personality disorder) not only earned her an Emmy Award (in 1977) but enabled her to break through the typecasting of her sitcom work. Music: While on The Flying Nun, Field tried her hand at singing. She sang on the soundtrack for The Flying Nun in 1967, and sang The Flying Nun theme song "Who Needs Wings to Fly". The same year she made it into the Billboard Hot 100 with her single "Felicidad". In 2008 she sang on the soundtrack of The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning. Film: Field made her film debut with a small part in Moon Pilot (1962). Her first major film role was in The Way West (1967). In 1977 she costarred with Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason and Jerry Reed in that year's #2 grossing film, Smokey and the Bandit. In 1979 Field played the eponymous union organizer in Norma Rae, a successful film that established her as a dramatic actress. Vincent Canby, reviewing the film for the New York Times, wrote: "Norma Rae is a seriously concerned contemporary drama, illuminated by some very good performances and one, Miss Field's, that is spectacular." For her role in Norma Rae, Field won the Best Female Performance Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Actress. Field appeared with Reynolds in three more films: (The End, Hooper and Smokey and the Bandit II). In 1981, she continued to change her image, playing a foul-mouthed prostitute opposite Tommy Lee Jones in the South-set film Back Roads. She received Golden Globe nominations for the 1981 drama Absence of Malice and the 1982 comedy Kiss Me Goodbye. Then came a second Oscar for her starring role in the 1984 drama Places in the Heart. Field's gushing acceptance speech is well remembered and has since been both admired as earnest and parodied as excessive. She said, "I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it--and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!" Fields was actually making a humorous reference to dialog from her role in Norma Rae, but many people missed the connection. Field even parodied herself when she delivered the line (often misquoted as "You like me, you really like me!") in a Charles Schwab commercial. The following year, she costarred with James Garner in the romantic comedy Murphy's Romance. In A&E's biography of Garner, she cited her on-screen kiss with Garner as the best cinematic kiss she ever had. Field appeared on the cover of the March 1986 issue of Playboy magazine, in which she was the interview subject. She did not appear as a pictorial subject in the magazine, although she did wear the classic leotard and bunny-ears outfit on the cover. That year, she received the Women in Film Crystal Award. For her role as matriarch M'Lynn in the film version of Steel Magnolias (1989), she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. She had supporting roles in a number of other movies, including Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) in which she played Miranda Hillard, the wife of Robin Williams's character and the love interest of Pierce Brosnan's character Stuart 'Stu' Dunmyer. She then played the mother of Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump (1994), even though she was only 10 years older than Hanks, with whom she had costarred six years earlier in Punchline. Field's other 1990s films included Not Without My Daughter, a controversial thriller based on the real-life experience of Betty Mahmoody's escape from Iran with her daughter Mahtob; and Soapdish, a comedy in which she played pampered soap-opera star Celeste Talbert, and was joined by an all-star cast including Kevin Kline, Whoopi Goldberg, Elisabeth Shue and Robert Downey, Jr. In 1996 Field received the Berlinale Camera award at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival for her role as a grieving vigilante mother in director John Schlesinger's film Eye for an Eye. She co-starred with Natalie Portman in Where the Heart Is (2000) and appeared opposite Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde. Recent activity: In November 2009, Field appeared on an episode of The Doctors to talk about osteoporosis and her Rally With Sally Foundation. Field had a recurring role on ER in the 2000-01 season as Dr. Abby Lockhart's mother, Maggie, who suffers from bipolar disorder, a role for which she won an Emmy Award in 2001. After her critically acclaimed stint on the show, she returned to the role in 2003 and 2006. She also starred in the very short-lived 2002 series The Court. Field's directorial career began with the television film The Christmas Tree (1966). In 1998 she directed the episode The Original Wives' Club of the critically acclaimed TV mini-series From the Earth to the Moon, also playing a minor role as Trudy, the wife of astronaut Gordon Cooper. In 2000 she directed the feature film Beautiful. Field was a late addition to the ABC drama Brothers & Sisters, which debuted in September 2006. In the show's pilot, the role of matriarch Nora Walker was played by actress Betty Buckley. However, the show's producers decided to take the character in another direction, and offered the part to Field, who won the 2007 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her performance. The drama also starred Calista Flockhart and Rachel Griffiths as Nora's adult daughters. Field had the voice role of Marina del Rey, the primary antagonist in Disney's The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning, released in August 2008. She portrayed Aunt May in the Marvel Comics film The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), and Mary Todd Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's film Lincoln, written by Tony Kushner. Activism: During her 2007 acceptance speech for her 2006-07 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Field made an anti-war statement: "If the mothers ruled the world, there would be no wars in the first place!" Though the crowd present at the Emmy Awards heard it, viewers watching the telecast in the United States only heard "if mothers ruled the world there would be no ...", due to the censoring of the rest of the statement (in the rest of the world, her remark was not bleeped). In the 2008 presidential election, she supported Hillary Clinton's bid for the Democratic Party nomination. Field is a dedicated advocate for women's rights. She has served on the board of directors of Vital Voices Global Partnership, an international women's NGO, and has co-hosted the Global Leadership Awards six times. Field is also an activist for gay rights. In 2012 she won the Human Rights Campaign's Ally for Equality Award (her youngest son, Sam, has come out as gay). Personal life: Field was romantically involved with Burt Reynolds for many years, during which time they co-starred in several films including Smokey and the Bandit, Smokey and the Bandit II and The End. Field married Steven Craig in 1968. The couple had two sons: Peter Craig, a novelist, and Eli Craig, an actor and director. Craig and Field divorced in 1975. She married film producer Alan Greisman in 1984, and they had one son, Sam in 1987; Field and Greisman divorced in 1993. On October 29, 1988, Field and her family survived a crash after their charter plane lost power on takeoff. They all survived with minor injuries. Sally Field is a staunch liberal Democrat. Field suffers from osteoporosis and has become a vocal advocate for women's health issues, encouraging early diagnosis of such conditions through technology such as bone-density scans. Filmography: Film: Year Title Role Notes 1962 Moon Pilot Beatnik girl in lineup 1967 Way West, TheThe Way West Mercy McBee 1976 Stay Hungry Mary Tate Farnsworth 1977 Smokey and the Bandit Carrie / 'Frog' Nominated--Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Heroes Carol Bell 1978 End, TheThe End Mary Ellen Hooper Gwen Doyle 1979 Norma Rae Norma Rae Academy Award for Best Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama, Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival), American Movie Award for Best Actress, Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, National Board of Review Award for Best Actress, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress, New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Beyond the Poseidon Adventure Celeste Whitman 1980 Smokey and the Bandit II Carrie / 'Frog' 1981 Back Roads Amy Post Absence of Malice Megan Carter Nominated--Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama 1982 Kiss Me Goodbye Kay Villano Nominated--Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy 1984 Places in the Heart Edna Spalding Academy Award for Best Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama 1985 Murphy's Romance Emma Moriarty Nominated--Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy 1987 Surrender Daisy Morgan Lethal Weapon KTLA Reporter (Uncredited) 1988 Punchline Lilah Krytsick 1989 Steel Magnolias M'Lynn Eatenton Nominated--Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama 1991 Not Without My Daughter Betty Mahmoody Soapdish Celeste Talbert / Maggie 1993 Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey Sassy Voice role Mrs. Doubtfire Miranda Hillard 1994 Century of Cinema, AA Century of Cinema Herself Documentary Forrest Gump Mrs. Gump Nominated--BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Nominated--Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role, Nominated--Blimp Award for Favorite Movie Actress 1996 Eye for an Eye Karen McCann Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco Sassy Voice role 2000 Where the Heart Is Mama Lil Beautiful Directorial debut 2001 Say It Isn't So Valdine Wingfield 2003 Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde Rep. Victoria Rudd Going Through Splat: The Life and Work of Stewart Stern Herself Documentary 2006 Two Weeks Anita Bergman 2008 The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning Marina Del Rey Voice role 2012 Amazing Spider-Man, TheThe Amazing Spider-Man Aunt May Lincoln Mary Todd Lincoln African-American Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress, Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress, Nevada Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress, New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, Nominated--Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Nominated--BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Nominated--Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress, Nominated--Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress, Nominated--Detroit Film Critics Society for Best Supporting Actress, Nominated--Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture, Nominated--Houston Film Critics Society for Best Supporting Actress, Nominated--London Film Critics' Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, Nominated--Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress, Nominated--Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress, Nominated--Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Nominated--Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role, Nominated--Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress, Nominated--St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress, Nominated--Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble, Nominated--Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress 2014 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Aunt May Television: Year Title Role Notes 1965-66 Gidget Frances Elizabeth "Gidget" Lawrence 32 episodes 1966-67 Hey, Landlord Bonnie Banner 4 episodes 1967-70 Flying Nun, TheThe Flying Nun Elsie Ethrington "Sister Bertrille" 82 episodes 1971 Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring Denise "Dennie" Miller Hitched Roselle Bridgeman Marriage: Year One Jane Duden 1972 Home for the Holidays Christine Morgan 1973-4 Girl with Something Extra, TheThe Girl with Something Extra Sally Burton 22 episodes 1976 Bridger Jennifer Melford Sybil Sybil Dorsett Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie 1977 Merry Christmas, George Bailey Mrs. Bailey/Narrator 1995 Woman of Independent Means, AA Woman of Independent Means Bess Alcott Steed Garner Television miniseries, Nominated -- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie, Nominated -- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Miniseries or Television Film, Nominated -- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Female Actor - Miniseries or Television Film 1998 From the Earth to the Moon Trudy Cooper; also directed Miniseries 1999 Cooler Climate, AA Cooler Climate Iris Nominated -- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie, Nominated -- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Female Actor - Miniseries or Television Film 2000 David Copperfield Aunt Betsey Trotwood Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Female Actor - Miniseries or Television Film 2000-6 ER Maggie Wyczenski Recurring role, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Drama Series (Won in 2001, Nominated 2003), Nominated -- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series (2000) 2002 The Court Justice Kate Nolan Cancelled after 6 episodes 2005 Conviction 2006-11 Brothers & Sisters Nora Walker 109 episodes, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Drama Series (Won in 2007, Nominated 2008-09), Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series (Won in 2009, Nominated 2008), Prism Award for Best Performance in a Drama Series Multi-Episode Storyline (2008), Nominated -- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Drama (2008-09), Nominated -- Satellite Award for Best Actress - Television Series Drama (2007-08), Nominated -- People's Choice Award for Favorite Female TV Star (2008-09)

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