Cast & creator
Sally Field
Best known for Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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.
Also known as: Sally Margaret Field
84
film credits
64
television credits
139
1944–2026 · acting roles
6.7
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (148)
Showing 148 of 148 credits
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
2009
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
2019
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
The View
Self - Guest
1997The View
Self
1997
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
2015
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
2003
King of the Hill
Junie Harper (voice)
1997
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
ER
Maggie Wyczenski
1994
Great Performances
Self
1971
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
2003
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944Golden Globe Awards
Self - Self - Winner
1944
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
1956Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
1956
Brothers and Sisters
Nora Walker
2006Brothers and Sisters
Executive Producer
2006
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
Intimate Portrait
Self (archive footage)
1993The Tony Danza Show
Self
2004
The Larry Sanders Show
Sally Field
1992
Forrest Gump
Mrs. Gump
1994Film '72
Self
1971
Chelsea
Self
2016
Finding Your Roots
Self
2012
Night Gallery
Irene Evans
1970
The Amazing Spider-Man
Aunt May
2012
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self
1968
The Oscars
Self
1953
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Aunt May
2014
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Jessie Buss
2022
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
From the Earth to the Moon
Trudy Cooper
1998From the Earth to the Moon
Director
1998
The Flying Nun
Sister Bertrille
1967
Hollywood Squares
Self
1966
Mrs. Doubtfire
Miranda Hillard
1993
Ciné regards
Self
1978
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Tova Sullivan
2026
Maniac
Dr. Greta Mantleray
2018
The Wonderful World of Disney
Self
1954
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Sassy (voice)
1993
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
Self
2008
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
1973
Gidget
Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence
1965
The Last Movie Stars
Self
2022
Marty, Life Is Short
Self (archive footage)
2026
Occasional Wife
1966
The Directors
Self
1999
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Victoria Rudd
2003
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
Self
2025
Steel Magnolias
M'Lynn Eatenton
1989
Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln
2012
80 for Brady
Betty
2023
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
Sassy (voice)
1996
Eye for an Eye
Karen McCann
1996
The Dating Game
Sally Field
1965
Dispatches from Elsewhere
Janice
2020
Where the Heart Is
Mama Lil
2000
Smokey and the Bandit
Carrie
1977
The Court
Justice Kate Nolan
2002
The Emmy Awards
Self - Presenter
1949The Emmy Awards
Self
1949
David Copperfield
Betsey Trotwood
2000
Sybil
Sybil
1976
The Girl with Something Extra
Sally Burton
1973
Places in the Heart
Edna Spalding
1984
Hello, My Name Is Doris
Doris Miller
2015
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
Self - Host
1998
Smokey and the Bandit II
Carrie
1980
Not Without My Daughter
Betty Mahmoody
1991
A Woman of Independent Means
Bess Alcott Steed Garner
1995A Woman of Independent Means
Executive Producer
1995
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
Self (archive footage)
2022
Dying Young
Producer
1991
Spoiler Alert
Marilyn
2022
Say It Isn't So
Valdine Wingfield
2001
Little Evil
Miss Shaylock
2017
Hooper
Gwen Doyle
1978
Soapdish
Celeste Talbert
1991
Dolly Parton: An American Original – Special Edition of 20/20
Self (archive footage)
2026
Stay Hungry
Mary Tate Farnsworth
1976
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
Celeste Whitman
1979
Absence of Malice
Megan Carter
1981
The Way West
Mercy McBee
1967
Spielberg
Self
2017
Talking Pictures: A Movie Memories Podcast
Self
2026
Norma Rae
Norma Rae
1979
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
1994
Back Roads
Amy Post
1981
I Am Burt Reynolds
Self (archive)
2020
Punchline
Lilah Krytsick
1988
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Self (archive footage)
1994
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Self - Audience Member (Uncredited)
1986
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Self - Hostess
1991
Eye of God
Thanks
1997Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Self (voice)
1989
Kiss Me Goodbye
Kay
1982
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Self (archive footage)
1996
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
Kate Keller
2019
Saturday Night Live: Christmas
Mom (archive footage)
1999
Love Letters
Melissa Gardner
2020
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self
1987
Murphy's Romance
Emma Moriarty
1985
A Century of Cinema
Self
1994
The End
Mary Ellen
1978
Moon Pilot
Beatnik Girl in Lineup (uncredited)
1962
Home for the Holidays
Christine Morgan
1974
Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
Self
1994
Surrender
Daisy Morgan
1987
All the Way Home
Mary Follet
1981
Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn
Self
2012
Two Weeks
Anita Bergman
2006
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Self
1996
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Self
2007
Marriage: Year One
Jane Duden
1971
Beautiful
Director
2000
The Desert of Forbidden Art
Voice
2011
Bridger
Jennifer Melford
1976
A Cooler Climate
Iris
1999
David Copperfield
Betsey Trotwood
2001
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
Denise "Dennie" Miller
1971
Merry Christmas, George Bailey
Mrs. Bailey / Narrator
1997
Lee Strasberg: The Method Man
Self
1997
Heroes
Carol Bell
1977
The Greatest Stuntman Alive
Herself
1978
Voices That Care
Self - Choir Member
1991
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies
Self / Host
1998Brothers & Sisters: Family Album
Self/Nora Walker
2007
Mongo's Back in Town
Vikki
1971
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
Self
2001
Mickey's 50
Self
1978
Lily for President?
Beth Barber
1982
The Christmas Tree
Director
1996The Christmas Tree
Teleplay
1996The Christmas Tree
Executive Producer
1996
Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story
2010
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
Self (Archive)
2015
Hitched
Roselle Bridgeman
1973
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
Marina Del Ray (voice)
2008