9.0
Dolly Parton: An American Original – Special Edition of 20/20
2026
Sally Field
Acting
Born November 6, 1946Pasadena, California, USA
Biography
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.
Movies
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Marty, Life Is Short
2026
8.4
Remarkably Bright Creatures
2026
6.2
80 for Brady
2023
7.0
Spoiler Alert
2022
6.8
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
2022
6.9
I Am Burt Reynolds
2020
0.0
Love Letters
2020
8.5
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
2019
7.5
Spielberg
2017
5.6
Little Evil
2017
0.0
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015
6.4
Hello, My Name Is Doris
2015
6.6
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014
6.8
Lincoln
2012
7.3
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
2012
6.8
The Amazing Spider-Man
2012
4.7
The Desert of Forbidden Art
2011
0.0
Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story
2010
6.7
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
2008
Brothers & Sisters: Family Album
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Brothers & Sisters: Family Album
2007
6.0
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007
6.1
Two Weeks
2006
5.7
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003
6.3
David Copperfield
2001
6.0
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
2001
4.8
Say It Isn't So
2001
7.1
Where the Heart Is
2000
5.6
Saturday Night Live: Christmas
1999
4.8
A Cooler Climate
1999
8.0
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
1998
6.0
Merry Christmas, George Bailey
1997
0.0
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
1997
6.4
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996
10.0
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996
6.6
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
1996
6.3
Eye for an Eye
1996
7.5
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
1994
8.5
Forrest Gump
1994
7.0
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994
8.3
A Century of Cinema
1994
7.2
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
7.0
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
1993
6.5
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991
6.3
Soapdish
1991
7.0
Voices That Care
1991
6.9
Not Without My Daughter
1991
7.2
Steel Magnolias
1989
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
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Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989
5.5
Punchline
1988
5.1
Surrender
1987
6.5
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
7.6
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986
6.2
Murphy's Romance
1985
7.2
Places in the Heart
1984
5.9
Kiss Me Goodbye
1982
0.0
Lily for President?
1982
7.0
All the Way Home
1981
6.6
Absence of Malice
1981
5.4
Back Roads
1981
5.6
Smokey and the Bandit II
1980
5.0
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
1979
7.2
Norma Rae
1979
9.0
Mickey's 50
1978
6.3
Hooper
1978
5.6
The End
1978
0.0
The Greatest Stuntman Alive
1978
6.2
Heroes
1977
7.0
Smokey and the Bandit
1977
10.0
Bridger
1976
5.6
Stay Hungry
1976
5.5
Home for the Holidays
1974
7.3
Hitched
1973
6.1
Mongo's Back in Town
1971
6.0
Marriage: Year One
1971
6.0
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
1971
6.1
The Way West
1967
5.5
Moon Pilot
1962
TV Shows
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Talking Pictures: A Movie Memories Podcast
5.5
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
7.0
The Last Movie Stars
7.7
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
6.7
Dispatches from Elsewhere
6.2
The Kelly Clarkson Show
7.3
Maniac
5.1
Chelsea
6.1
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
6.1
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
5.1
The Late Late Show with James Corden
4.2
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
6.5
Finding Your Roots
4.9
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
7.5
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
7.1
Brothers and Sisters
The Tony Danza Show
6.4
The Tony Danza Show
5.6
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
5.3
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
10.0
The Court
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David Copperfield
6.1
The Directors
8.4
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
8.1
From the Earth to the Moon
4.3
The View
4.3
The View
7.4
King of the Hill
10.0
A Woman of Independent Means
7.8
ER
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Inside the Actors Studio
4.5
Intimate Portrait
7.8
The Larry Sanders Show
5.3
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
5.0
Ciné regards
7.4
Sybil
6.9
Saturday Night Live
8.3
The Girl with Something Extra
6.3
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Film '72
5.1
Film '72
6.1
Great Performances
7.0
Alias Smith and Jones
7.8
Night Gallery
6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
6.8
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
6.3
The Flying Nun
7.5
Hollywood Squares
8.0
Occasional Wife
4.6
The Dating Game
6.8
Gidget
7.6
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
6.8
The Merv Griffin Show
5.8
The Mike Douglas Show
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Tony Awards
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Tony Awards
7.9
The Wonderful World of Disney
7.1
The Oscars
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The Emmy Awards
7.9
The Emmy Awards
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
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