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