1. Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek is an American actress and singer.
48 Facts About Sissy Spacek
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Sissy Spacek has received numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over five decades, including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for four British Academy Film Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award.
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Sissy Spacek's breakthrough came when she played the abused teen misfit title character with telekinetic powers in Brian De Palma's supernatural horror film Carrie, which earned her first of six nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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Sissy Spacek then starred in Robert Altman's psychological drama film 3 Women.
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Sissy Spacek received four more Academy Award nominations for her roles in Missing, The River, Crimes of the Heart, and In the Bedroom.
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Sissy Spacek was later Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie and Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her work in the drama film Last Call and the HBO series Big Love, respectively.
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Sissy Spacek played matriarch Sally Rayburn in the Netflix series Bloodline, Ruth Deaver in the Hulu series Castle Rock, and Ellen Bergman in the Amazon Prime Video series Homecoming.
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When sales sputtered, Sissy Spacek was dropped by her record label.
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Sissy Spacek later recorded vocals for the soundtrack album to Coal Miner's Daughter, which peaked at No 2 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and garnered her a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.
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Sissy Spacek subsequently released her debut studio album, Hangin' Up My Heart.
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Mary Elizabeth Sissy Spacek was born on Christmas Day 1949, in Quitman, Texas, the daughter of Virginia Frances and Edwin Arnold Sissy Spacek Sr.
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Sissy Spacek's father was of three quarters Czech and one quarter Sudeten-German ancestry; her paternal grandparents were Mary and Arnold A Spacek.
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At the age of six, Sissy Spacek performed on stage for the first time in a local talent show.
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When sales of her music sputtered, Sissy Spacek was dropped by her record label.
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Sissy Spacek switched her focus to acting, enrolling at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.
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Sissy Spacek worked as a photographic model and as an extra at Andy Warhol's Factory.
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Sissy Spacek received international attention for her breakthrough role in Terrence Malick's neo-noir crime drama film Badlands ; she played Holly, the film's narrator and 15-year-old girlfriend of serial killer Kit.
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Sissy Spacek has described Badlands as the "most incredible" experience of her career.
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Sissy Spacek worked as the set dresser for Brian De Palma's film Phantom of the Paradise.
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Sissy Spacek had to work hard to persuade De Palma to cast her in the role.
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Sissy Spacek's performance was critically acclaimed and led to a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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Sissy Spacek has this mysterious way of slipping into a part, letting it take over her.
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Sissy Spacek began the 1980s with an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Michael Apted's biographical musical Coal Miner's Daughter, in which she portrayed country music star Loretta Lynn, who personally selected her for the role.
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Sissy Spacek's face is no more of an actor's instrument than it ever was, but given a human being to play, given a director concerned with acting, she makes that woman exist.
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Sissy Spacek was so adamant about getting the role that she pored through over 4,000 pages of research to prepare for her character.
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Sissy Spacek was so distraught at the news that she shattered a glass of wine in her hand.
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Sissy Spacek said that Spacek breaking the glass clinched the deal, and they believed she ultimately would best suit the part.
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In 1982, Sissy Spacek starred alongside Jack Lemmon in Costa-Gavras's biographical thriller drama film Missing.
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Sissy Spacek co-starred with Mel Gibson in Mark Rydell's drama film The River, and with Diane Keaton and Jessica Lange in Bruce Beresford's black comedy drama film Crimes of the Heart.
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Sissy Spacek showed a lighter side by voicing the brain in Carl Reiner's science fiction black comedy film The Man with Two Brains, starring Steve Martin.
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Sissy Spacek had a supporting role as the wife of Jim Garrison in Oliver Stone's epic political thriller film JFK and made a number of comedies and television films.
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Sissy Spacek played Verena Talbo in Charles Matthau's comedy drama film The Grass Harp, which reunited her with both Lemmon and Piper Laurie.
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Sissy Spacek lent a supporting role as the waitress Margie Fogg in Paul Schrader's neo-noir crime drama film Affliction.
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Sissy Spacek played Rose Straight in David Lynch's biographical road drama film The Straight Story and the mother of Brendan Fraser's character in Hugh Wilson's romantic comedy fantasy adventure film Blast from the Past.
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Sissy Spacek began the 2000s with critical acclaim for her performance as Ruth Fowler, a grieving mother consumed by revenge, in Todd Field's drama film In the Bedroom, which was released in 2001.
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Sissy Spacek starred in Jay Russell's romantic fantasy drama film Tuck Everlasting.
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Sissy Spacek played unfaithful wife Ruth in Rodrigo Garcia's drama film Nine Lives and a woman suffering from Alzheimer's disease in the television film Pictures of Hollis Woods.
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Sissy Spacek played a supporting role in Seth Gordon's comedy film Four Christmases and the lead role in the drama film Lake City.
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Sissy Spacek appeared in the HBO series Big Love for a multi-episode arc as a powerful Washington, DC lobbyist and earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.
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Sissy Spacek narrated the 2005 audiobook of Stephen King's 1974 novel Carrie.
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In 2006, Sissy Spacek narrated Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which sold over 30 million copies.
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Sissy Spacek was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011.
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That same year, Sissy Spacek appeared in Tate Taylor's period drama film The Help, whose ensemble cast, including Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain and Allison Janney, received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
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In 2012, Sissy Spacek published her memoir, My Extraordinary Ordinary Life, with co-author Maryanne Vollers.
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Sissy Spacek became the first actor to appear in a film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in each of the four most recent decades.
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Sissy Spacek had starring roles in a variety of television series in the late 2010s.
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Sissy Spacek played matriarch Sally Rayburn in the Netflix series Bloodline, which aired from 2015 to 2017; Ruth Deaver in the Hulu series Castle Rock, which intertwines characters and themes from King's fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine; and Ellen Bergman, the mother of Julia Roberts's character, in the Amazon Prime Video series Homecoming.
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Sissy Spacek married production designer and art director Jack Fisk in 1974, after they met on the set of Badlands.