Sally Field

Sally Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American actress born in California. She has won two Academy Awards for Best Actress, along with two Golden Globe Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the National Medal of Arts in 2014, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2019 and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2023.

She won her two Best Actress Oscars for playing a union organizer in Norma Rae (1979) and a mother struggling through the Great Depression in Places in the Heart (1984), and was nominated for playing Mary Todd Lincoln in Lincoln (2012). She also appeared in Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Steel Magnolias (1989), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994), and played Aunt May in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and its 2014 sequel.

On television she became a star in the ABC sitcoms Gidget (1965–1966) and The Flying Nun (1967–1970), and played Nora Walker in the American drama series Brothers & Sisters. Her four Emmys came for Sybil (1976), ER (2001), Brothers & Sisters (2006–2011) and the Netflix film Remarkably Bright Creatures (2026). On stage she starred in the Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, earning a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play.