1. Sally Margaret Field was born on November 6,1946 and is an American actress.
50 Facts About Sally Field
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Sally Field has performed in movies, Broadway theater, television, and made records of popular music.
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Sally Field was presented with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2014, the National Medal of Arts in 2014, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2019, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2023.
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Sally Field was born on November 6,1946, in Pasadena, California, to actress Margaret Field and pharmacist Richard Dryden Field, who served in the Army during World War II.
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Sally Field's parents were divorced in 1950; on January 21,1952, in Tijuana, Mexico, her mother married Jock Mahoney, an actor and stuntman.
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Sally Field's ancestry includes English, Irish and on her father's side Italian from the island of Sicily.
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Sally Field's class of 1964 classmates included financier Michael Milken and talent agent Michael Ovitz, while actress Cindy Williams was a year behind Field.
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Sally Field has stated that when she was seventeen she had an illegal abortion in Mexico, and was molested during it.
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Sally Field began her career on television, starring in the comedies Gidget, The Flying Nun, and The Girl with Something Extra.
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Sally Field received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for the NBC television film Sybil.
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Sally Field won two Academy Awards for Best Actress for Norma Rae, and Places in the Heart.
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Sally Field portrayed Mary Todd Lincoln in Lincoln, for which she received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination.
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Sally Field portrayed Aunt May in The Amazing Spider-Man and its 2014 sequel.
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Sally Field returned to the stage after an absence of 15 years with the 2017 revival of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
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Sally Field made her debut on the West End theatre in the revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons in 2019.
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Sally Field got her start on television as the boy-crazy surfer girl in the sitcom Gidget.
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Sally Field was then typecast, finding respectable roles difficult to obtain.
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In 1971, Sally Field starred in the ABC television film Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring, playing a discouraged teen runaway who returns home with a bearded, drug-abusing hippie.
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Sally Field made several guest television appearances through the mid-1970s, including a role on the Western Alias Smith and Jones, a popular series starring Gidget co-star Pete Duel.
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Sally Field appeared in the episode "Whisper" on the thriller Night Gallery.
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In 1973, Sally Field was cast in a starring role opposite John Davidson in the series The Girl with Something Extra that aired from 1973 to 1974.
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Strasberg became a mentor to Sally Field, helping her move past her television image of the girl next door.
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In 1977, Sally Field co-starred with Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, and Jerry Reed in the year's second-highest-grossing film, Smokey and the Bandit.
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Sally Field appeared with Reynolds in three more films: The End, Hooper, and Smokey and the Bandit II.
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Sally Field was nominated for a Golden Globe for the 1981 drama Absence of Malice and the 1982 comedy Kiss Me Goodbye.
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Sally Field won her second Golden Globe Award and second Oscar.
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Sally Field did not appear as a pictorial subject in the magazine, although she did wear the classic leotard and bunny-ears outfit on the cover.
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Sally Field then played Tom Hanks's mother in Forrest Gump, even though she was only 10 years older than Hanks, with whom she had co-starred six years earlier in Punchline.
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In 1996, Sally Field reprised her role as Sassy in Homeward Bound 2: Lost in San Francisco and later that year, she 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.
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In 1997, Sally Field guest starred on the King of the Hill episode "Hilloween", in which she voiced religious woman Junie Harper, who contends with Hank Hill to ban Halloween.
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However, the show's producers decided to take the character in another direction, and offered the part to Sally Field, who won the 2007 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her performance.
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Sally Field portrayed Aunt May in the Marvel Comics films The Amazing Spider-Man as well as the 2014 sequel.
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Sally Field's widely praised portrayal of Mary Todd Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's film Lincoln, in 2012, brought her Best Supporting Actress Award nominations at the Oscars, Golden Globes, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild, and Critics' Choice.
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On May 5,2014, Sally Field received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to motion pictures.
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Sally Field's star is located in front of the Hollywood Wax Museum.
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In 2017, Sally Field reprised her role as Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre.
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Sally Field had previously played the role in the Kennedy Center production in 2004.
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Sally Field was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance.
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Sally Field returned to episodic television in 2018, starring in the Netflix miniseries Maniac.
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Subsequently, in 2020, Sally Field starred in the AMC series Dispatches from Elsewhere.
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In 2023, Sally Field co-starred in the comedy movie 80 for Brady, which starred NFL quarterback Tom Brady along with fellow actresses Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Rita Moreno.
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Also in 2023, Sally Field was named the 58th recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, which she was presented at the 29th Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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Sally Field was married to Steven Craig from 1968 to 1975, though they separated in 1973.
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From 1976 to 1980, Sally Field had a relationship with Burt Reynolds, during which time they co-starred in four films: Smokey and the Bandit, Smokey and the Bandit II, The End, and Hooper.
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Sally Field's diagnosis led her to create the "Rally with Sally for Bone Health" campaign with support from Roche and GlaxoSmithKline that controversially co-promoted Boniva, a bisphosphonate treatment for osteoporosis.
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Sally Field's campaign encouraged the early diagnosis of such conditions through technology such as bone-density scans.
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In 2005, Sally Field received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented in recognition of her lifetime of contributions to the arts as well as her dedication as a social activist.
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Sally Field 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.
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Sally Field is an advocate for gay rights, and won the Human Rights Campaign's Ally for Equality Award in 2012.
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Sally Field was arrested on December 13,2019, while attending Jane Fonda's weekly Friday climate change protests in Washington, DC.