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Sally Field
Sally Margaret Field is an American actress. Known for her roles on screen and stage, she has received various accolades including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and three Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as nominations for two British Academy Film Awards and a Tony Award. She was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2014, the National Medal of Arts in 2014, the Kennedy…
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Born 6 November 1946 · Q187033
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2026· 3 entries
Public attention spiked: 27,140 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.7× the usual 7,360, with 8 article edits. Editors noted: Personal life reworked content
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The Guardian: Remarkably Bright Creatures review – Sally Field bonds with octopus in gentle Netflix charmer
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: Sally Field recalls her ‘hideous’ illegal abortion at 17 as she urges voters to back Kamala Harris
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2023· 2 entries
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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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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2020· 1 entry
Field starred in the AMC series Dispatches from Elsewhere
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2019· 3 entries
Field was arrested along with other protesters who were taking part in one of Jane Fonda's Fire Drill Fridays climate change demonstrations in Washington, D
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Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (2019).
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The Guardian: All My Sons review – Sally Field and Bill Pullman deliver a Miller for our times
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2018· 1 entry
Starring in the Netflix miniseries Maniac
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2017· 4 entries
The Guardian: Sally Field: 'I never felt that I had very many choices. Ever'
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The Guardian: The Glass Menagerie review – Sally Field returns to Broadway in style
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In previews, and officially opened on March 9
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Field reprised her role as Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre
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2016· 2 entries
The Guardian: Sally Field returns to Broadway in The Glass Menagerie
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The Guardian: Sally Field: Thank God for African American men in diversity debate
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2014· 3 entries
Won National Medal of Arts (2014).
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Field received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to motion pictures
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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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2012· 1 entry
Brought her Best Supporting Actress Award nominations at the Oscars, Golden Globes, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild, and Critics' Choice
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Brothers & Sisters (2007).
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“If the mothers ruled the world, there would be no goddamn wars in the first place.”
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2005· 2 entries
Field was diagnosed with osteoporosis
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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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2001· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for ER (2001).
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1998· 2 entries
Directed the episode "The Original Wives' Club" of the critically acclaimed TV miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, also playing a minor role as Trudy, the wife of astronaut Gordon Cooper
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“Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, 'Wonderful, just have a back-up profession like welding.'”
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1997· 2 entries
Field guest starred on the King of the Hill episode "Hilloween", in which she voiced religious woman Junie Harper, who contends with Hank Hill (Mike Judge) to ban Halloween
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“What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realize that your outfit cost more than your film.”
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1996· 1 entry
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
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1994· 2 entries
“Oh, wow. This is the best drink of water after the longest drought of my life.”
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“two of the finest gay Americans, two wonderful men that I had the good fortune to be associated with.”
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1993· 1 entry
“Tonight I am asking for your help. I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being to prove that we are a human race. To prove that our love outweighs our need to hate. That our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame. That our sensitivity to those in need is stronger than our greed. . . . Thank you and God bless.”
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1991· 1 entry
“I want to thank everybody who makes movies. . . . As a little kid, I lived in the projects, and you're the people I watched. You're the people who made me want to be an actor. I'm so proud to be here.”
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1988· 1 entry
At Aspen/Pitkin County Airport in Colorado, Field and three members of her family were in a private plane owned by media mogul Merv Griffin when it lost power and rejected takeoff, slamming into a parked aircraft
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1987· 1 entry
“Gee, this isn't like I imagined it would be in the bathtub.”
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1986· 2 entries
Awarded Crystal Award (1986).
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Awarded Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year (1986).
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1985· 4 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for Places in the Heart (1985).
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“I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year.”
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Co-starred with James Garner in the romantic comedy Murphy's Romance
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“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!”
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1983· 2 entries
“Gandhi simply asked that we should examine the criteria by which we judge the manner of solving our problems. That surely in the 20th century, we human beings, searching for our human dignity, could find other ways of ultimately solving our problems than blowing the other man's head off. He begged us to reexamine that criteria . . .”
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“When I was 19 years old I was the number one star of the world for two years. When I was 40 nobody wanted me.”
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1981· 1 entry
Continued to change her image, playing a foul-mouthed prostitute opposite Tommy Lee Jones in the South-set film Back Roads
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for Norma Rae (1980).
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1979· 2 entries
“In the great wealth, the great firmament of your nation's generosities this particular choice may perhaps be found by future generations as a trifle eccentric, but the mere fact of it the prodigal, pure, human kindness of it must be seen as a beautiful star in that firmament which shines upon me at this moment, dazzling me a little, but filling me with warmth of the extraordinary elation, the euphoria that happens to so many of us at the first breath of the majestic glow of a new tomorrow.”
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Played the titular union organizer in Norma Rae, a film that established her as a dramatic actress
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1978· 1 entry
“refused to be intimidated by the threats of a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums whose behavior is an insult to the stature of Jews all over the world and to their great and heroic record of struggle against fascism and oppression.”
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1977· 2 entries
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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And enabled her to break through the typecasting of her sitcom work
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1976· 1 entry
“being in a mental institution like being in a mental institution.”
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1973· 1 entry
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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1972· 1 entry
“There's a great deal to say, but I'm not going to say it tonight.”
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1971· 1 entry
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 (played by David Carradine)
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1967· 1 entry
Released album “Star of the Flying Nun”.
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1964· 1 entry
“It has been a long journey to this moment.”
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1952· 1 entry
In Tijuana, Mexico, her mother married Jock Mahoney, an actor and stuntman
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1946· 2 entries
In Pasadena, California, a suburb of Los Angeles
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Born 1946-11-06.
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