Sally Field

""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!""

- Sally Field, accepting the Best Actress Oscar for Places in the Heart

Sally Field (born Sally Margaret Field, November 6, 1946) is an actress that everybody's seen on film or TV but nobody remembers for her acting.

Her eponymous role in Norma Rae earned her Best Actress awards from the Cannes Film Festival, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, the National Board of Review, the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, the Golden Globe Awards, and the National Society of Film Critics Awards... oh, and some award called an "Oscar".

Sally Field took home a second Best Actress Oscar for her role in Places in the Heart. This is where everybody remembers her from - not from playing Edna Spalding in the movie, but from her acceptance speech. And everybody misquotes her, too.

On the other hand, there are her roles in The Flying Nun, The Girl with Something Extra, and Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, showing that even an Oscar-worthy actress needs to eat.


 * Moon Pilot (1962) as "Beatnik girl in lineup"
 * Gidget (1965–1966) as Frances Elizabeth "Gidget" Lawrence
 * Hey, Landlord (1966–1967, 4 episodes) as Bonnie Banner
 * The Way West (1967) as Mercy McBee
 * The Flying Nun (1967–1970) as Sister Bertrille (Elsie Ethrington)
 * The Girl with Something Extra (1973–1974) as Sally Burton
 * Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring (1971) as Denise "Dennie" Miller
 * Hitched (1971) as Roselle Bridgeman
 * Marriage: Year One (1971) as Jane Duden
 * Mongo's Back in Town (1971) as Vikki
 * Alias Smith and Jones (1971–1972, 2 episodes) as Clementine Hale
 * Home for the Holidays (1972) as Christine Morgan
 * Night Gallery (1973, S3E13 "Whisper") as Irene Evans
 * Stay Hungry (1976) as Mary Tate Farnsworth
 * Bridger (1976) as Jennifer Melford
 * Sybil (1976) as Sybil Dorsett
 * Smokey and the Bandit (1977) as Carrie ("Frog")
 * Heroes (1977) as Carol Bell
 * The End (1978) as Mary Ellen
 * Hooper (1978) as Gwen Doyle
 * Norma Rae (1979) as Norma Rae Wilson (Academy Award for Best Actress)
 * Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) as Celeste Whitman
 * Carol Burnett & Company (1979, Episode #1.4) as Herself
 * Smokey and the Bandit II (1980) as Carrie ("Frog")
 * Back Roads (1981) as Amy Post
 * Absence of Malice (1981) as Megan Carter
 * Kiss Me Goodbye (1982) as Kay Villano
 * Places in the Heart (1984) as Edna Spalding (Academy Award for Best Actress)
 * Murphy's Romance (1985) as Emma Moriarty
 * Surrender (1987) as Daisy Morgan
 * Punchline (1988) as Lilah Krytsick
 * Steel Magnolias (1989) as M'Lynn Eatenton
 * Not Without My Daughter (1991) as Betty Mahmoody
 * Soapdish (1991) as Celeste Talbert / Maggie
 * Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993) as the voice of Sassy
 * Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) as Miranda Hillard
 * A Century of Cinema (1994) as Herself
 * Forrest Gump (1994) as Mrs. Gump
 * A Woman of Independent Means (1995) as Bess Alcott Steed Garner
 * Eye for an Eye (1996) as Karen McCann
 * Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996) as the voice of Sassy
 * The Larry Sanders Show (1996, episode "Where is the Love?") as Herself
 * King of the Hill (1997, episode "Hilloween") as the voice of Junie Harper
 * Merry Christmas, George Bailey (1997) as Mrs. Bailey/Narrator
 * From the Earth to the Moon (1998) as Trudy Cooper
 * A Cooler Climate (1999) as Iris
 * Where the Heart Is (2000) as Mama Lil
 * David Copperfield (2000) as Betsey Trotwood
 * ER (2000–2006, 12 episodes) as Maggie Wyczenski
 * Say It Isn't So (2001) as Valdine Wingfield
 * The Court (2002, 6 episodes) as Justice Kate Nolan
 * The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (2002, live at the John Golden Theatre) as Stevie Gray
 * Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003) as Rep. Victoria Rudd
 * Going Through Splat: The Life and Work of Stewart Stern (2005) as Herself
 * Two Weeks (2006) as Anita Bergman
 * Brothers & Sisters (2006–2011) as Nora Walker
 * The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning (2008) as the voice of Marina Del Rey
 * The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) as Aunt May Parker
 * Lincoln (2012) as Mary Todd Lincoln
 * The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) as Aunt May Parker
 * Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015) as Doris Miller
 * Little Evil (2017) as Miss Shaylock
 * Spielberg (2017) as Herself
 * The Glass Menagerie (2017, live at the Belasco Theatre) as Amanda Wingfield
 * Maniac (2018) as Dr. Greta Mantleray
 * All My Sons (2019, live at the Old Vic Theatre) as Kate Keller