Sally Field
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 Field at the 62nd Academy Awards ceremony, 1990 |
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| Born | Sally Margaret Field November 6, 1946 Pasadena, California, USA |
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| Years active | 1965-present | ||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Alan Greisman (1984-1993) Steven Craig (1968-1975) |
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Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American two-time Academy Award-winning actress. She is also a three-time Emmy Award winner and two-time Golden Globe Award winner who became a household name at age 20 as Sister Bertrille in the 1960s sitcom The Flying Nun. She has won two Oscars, for Norma Rae in 1979, and for Places in the Heart in 1984.
More recently, Field stars as Nora Holden Walker on the ABC hit drama, Brothers & Sisters, as a grieving matriarch who helps out in the family business.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Field was born in Pasadena, California, the daughter of Maggie, an actress, and Richard Dryden Field, who worked in sales.[1] Her parents divorced in 1950 and her mother subsequently remarried to actor and stuntman Jock Mahoney.
She attended Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, California where she was a cheerleader. Among her classmates were famed financier Michael Milken, fellow actress Cindy Williams (of Laverne and Shirley fame) and Michael Ovitz of CAA and Walt Disney Studios fame.
[edit] Career
[edit] Television
Field got her start on television, as the boy-struck, barefooted surfer girl in the mid-1960s surf culture sitcom series Gidget. She then went on to star in her best known television role, as Sister Bertrille in The Flying Nun. In an interview on the Flying Nun DVD, she said that she would have preferred to continue playing Gidget. Field also appeared in The Girl with Something Extra. While starring on The Flying Nun, Sally tried her hand at singing, releasing an album on Colgems Records in 1967 and cracking the Billboard Hot 100 with one single, "Felicidad", in 1967.
She had several guest appearances, including a recurring role on the western comedy Alias Smith and Jones starring Pete Duel (with whom she had worked on Gidget) and Ben Murphy, and the Rod Serling's Night Gallery episode "The Whisper."
[edit] Sybil
Having played mostly comic characters on television, Field had a difficult time being cast in dramatic roles.[citation needed] She studied with famed acting teacher Lee Strasberg. Soon after, Field landed the title role in the 1976 TV film Sybil.
Field's dramatic portrayal of Sybil, a young woman afflicted with multiple personality syndrome in the TV film not only garnered her an Emmy Award in 1977, but also enabled her to break through the typecasting she had experienced from television roles.
[edit] Film
Field had a number of critical and commercial successes in movies, particularly in the 1980s. In 1977 she co-starred with Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason and Jerry Reed in that year's #2 grossing film Smokey and the Bandit.[citation needed]
In 1979, she starred as a union organizer in Norma Rae, and won the Best Female Performance Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1981, Field played a prostitute opposite Tommy Lee Jones in the South-set comedy Back Roads, which received middling reviews and grossed $11 million at the box office.
Field won another Academy Award in 1985 for her starring role in Places in the Heart. Her gushing acceptance speech is well-remembered for its earnestness. In it, Field stated "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!".[2] The line ending in "...I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!" is often misquoted as simply "You like me, you really like me!" which has subsequently been the subject of many parodies. (Field parodied the line herself in a commercial.[citation needed]) Also in 1985, she co-starred with James Garner in Murphy's Romance. In A&E's biography of Garner, Field reported that her on-screen kiss with Garner was the best cinematic kiss she had ever had.
Field appeared on the cover of the March 1986 issue of Playboy magazine. She was the interview subject in that month's issue. (She did not appear as a pictorial subject inside the magazine, although she did wear the classic leotard and bunny ears "Bunny Outfit" on the cover).
She has had supporting roles in other movies, including Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) in which she played the wife of Robin Williams and the love interest of Pierce Brosnan, followed by the role of Forrest's mother in Forrest Gump (1994). She is only 10 years older than Tom Hanks, with whom she had co-starred six years earlier in Punchline.
[edit] Recent roles
On television, Field had a recurring role on ER in the 2000-2001 season as Dr. Abby Lockhart's mother Maggie, who is struggling to cope with 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 has also ventured into the realm of directing. Her first directorial stint was for the television film, The Christmas Tree (1996). She also directed the feature film Beautiful (2000), as well as an episode of the TV mini-series, From the Earth to the Moon (1998).
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 had been played by actress Betty Buckley. However, the producers of the show decided to take the character of Nora in another direction, and Field was cast in the role. She won the 2007 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in her role as Nora Walker. Field also has an upcoming voice role as Marina del Ray the villain in Disney's The Little Mermaid III. This movie is scheduled for a direct-to-DVD release in 2008.
Currently, Field can be seen on television as the compensated spokesperson for Roche Laboratories' postmenopausal osteoporosis treatment medication, Boniva.
[edit] Political advocacy
During her acceptance speech for her 2007 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 goddamn wars in the first place." In the US, Fox censored her, so that she was cut off at "god--", and did not return to her speech. Fox also censored two other speakers, saying only that the content might be "considered inappropriate by some viewers".[3]
[edit] Private life
Field dated Burt Reynolds for many years. She married Steven Craig in 1968. The couple had two sons, Peter Craig, a novelist, and Eli, an actor and director. They divorced in 1975.
In 1984, she married film producer Alan Greisman. They had one son, Sam. The couple divorced in 1993.
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Film
| Year | Film | Role | Other notes |
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| 1967 | The Way West | Mercy McBee | |
| 1976 | Stay Hungry | Mary Tate Farnsworth | |
| 1977 | Smokey and the Bandit | Carrie / 'Frog' | Nominated - Golden Globe |
| Heroes | Carol Bell | ||
| 1978 | The End | Mary Ellen | |
| Hooper | Gwen Doyle | ||
| 1979 | Norma Rae | Norma Rae | Academy Award for Best Actress; Golden Globe |
| 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 | |
| 1982 | Kiss Me Goodbye | Kay Villano | Nominated - Golden Globe |
| 1984 | Places in the Heart | Edna Spalding | Academy Award for Best Actress; Golden Globe |
| 1985 | Murphy's Romance | Emma Moriarty | Nominated - Golden Globe |
| 1987 | Surrender | Daisy Morgan | |
| 1988 | Punchline | Lilah Krytsick | |
| 1989 | Steel Magnolias | M'Lynn Eatenton | Nominated - Golden Globe |
| 1991 | Not Without My Daughter | Betty Mahmoody | |
| Soapdish | Celeste Talbert / Maggie | ||
| 1993 | Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey | Sassy | voice |
| Mrs. Doubtfire | Miranda Hillard | ||
| 1994 | A Century of Cinema | Herself | documentary |
| Forrest Gump | Mrs. Gump | Nominated - BAFTA Award | |
| 1996 | Eye for an Eye | Karen McCann | |
| Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco | Sassy | voice | |
| 2000 | Where the Heart Is | Mama Lil | |
| 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 Ray (Ariel and her sister's watcher) | (voice over, animated) |
| 2009 | Lincoln | Mary Todd Lincoln | pre-production |
[edit] Television
| Year | Production | Role | Other notes |
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| 1965-1966 | Gidget | Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence | |
| 1967-1970 | The Flying Nun | Sister Bertrille | |
| 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 | |
| 1973-1974 | The Girl with Something Extra | Sally Burton | |
| 1976 | Bridger | Jennifer Melford | |
| Sybil | Sybil Dorsett | Emmy Award | |
| 1995 | A Woman of Independent Means | Bess Alcott Steed Garner | TV mini-series - Nominated - Emmy Award; Nominated - Golden Globe |
| 1977 | Merry Christmas, George Bailey | Mrs. Bailey/Narrator | |
| 1998 | From the Earth to the Moon | Trudy Cooper | miniseries |
| 1999 | A Cooler Climate | Iris | Nominated - Emmy Award |
| 2000 | David Copperfield | Aunt Betsey Trotwood | |
| 2000 - Present | ER | Maggie Wyczenski | Emmy Award - 2001 Nominated - Emmy Award - 2003 Recurring role |
| 2002 | The Court | Justice Kate Nolan | cancelled after 6 episodes |
| 2005 | Conviction | ||
| 2006 - Present | Brothers & Sisters | Nora Walker | Emmy Award - 2007 Won Nominated - Golden Globes 2008 Main cast |
[edit] References
- ^ Sally Field. Film Reference.com.
- ^ Oscar acceptance speech: Littlereview.com
- ^ Marikar, Shelia. "On TV, 'Extreme Caution' vs. Free Speech", ABC News, 2007-09-18. Retrieved on 2007-11-05.
[edit] External links
- Sally Field at the Internet Movie Database
- Sally Field at TV.com
- Broadband video interview with Sally Field, talking about Brothers & Sisters
- Two Weeks movie site
[edit] Brothers & Sisters
| Awards | ||
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| Golden Globe Award | ||
| Preceded by Jane Fonda for Coming Home |
Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama 1980 for Norma Rae |
Succeeded by Mary Tyler Moore for Ordinary People |
| Preceded by Shirley MacLaine for Terms of Endearment |
Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama 1985 for Places in the Heart |
Succeeded by Whoopi Goldberg for The Color Purple |
| Cannes Film Festival Awards | ||
| Preceded by Jill Clayburgh for An Unmarried Woman and Isabelle Huppert for Violette Nozière |
Best Actress 1979 for Norma Rae |
Succeeded by Anouk Aimée for Leap Into The Void |
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| NAME | Field, Sally |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pasadena, California, U.S. |
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