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Sally Field Biography

Sally Field is an American actress and director. She has received various accolades, including two Academy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award and has been nominated for a Tony Award and two BAFTA Awards.

Sally started her professional career on television, starring in titular roles on the short-lived sitcoms Gidget (1965–1966), The Flying Nun (1967–1970), and The Girl with Something Extra (1973–1974). In 1976, her career saw a turning point when she garnered critical acclaim of her portrayal of a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder in the television miniseries Sybil, for which she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.

Though her film debut was as an extra in Moon Pilot (1962), Sally’s film career grew during the 1970s with starring roles in successful films including Stay Hungry (1976), Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Heroes (1977), The End (1978), and Hooper (1978). Sally’s career further expanded during the 1980s, twice receiving the Academy Award for Best Actress for Norma Rae (1979) and Places in the Heart (1984), and continued to appear in a wide range of acclaimed and successful films including Smokey and the Bandit II (1980), Absence of Malice (1981), Kiss Me Goodbye (1982), Murphy’s Romance (1985), Steel Magnolias (1989), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), and Forrest Gump (1994).

She returned to television with a recurring role on the NBC medical drama ER in the 2000s.  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?.

She portrayed the protagonist Nora Walker on the ABC television drama Brothers & Sisters from 2006 to 2011, for which she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2007.  Her film career saw a resurgence in 2010s . Sally starred as Mary Todd Lincoln in Lincoln (2012), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and portrayed Aunt May in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and its 2014 sequel, with the former becoming her highest grossing release.

She portrayed the titular character in Hello, My Name Is Doris in 2015, for which she was nominated for the Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in a Comedy. Sally went back to stage after an absence of 15 years with the revival of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie in 2017 for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.

Field is known for the television film The Christmas Tree (1996), an episode of the 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, as well as the feature film Beautiful (2000)as a director.  She was presented with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2014, .

Sally Field Age | How Old Is Sally Field

Sally was born on November 6 1946 in Paadena, California. She is 72 years old as of 2018.

Sally Field Height | How Tall Is Sally Field

Sally stands at a height of 1.59 m.

Sally Field Dead | Did Sally Field Die

Sally is still alive.

Sally Field Family | Sally Field Young| Sally Field Mother | Sally Field Brother |Sally Field Parents

Sally was born in Pasadena, California. She is a daughter to Margaret Field (née Morlan; an actress) and Richard Dryden Field. Sally’s father was an army officer. After her parents’divorce in 1950, her mother married actor and stuntman Jock Mahoney. Sally reported in her 2018 memoir that she was sexually abused by Mahoney during her childhood. Through Sally’s maternal grandmother’s genealogical line, she is a descendant of Mayflower passenger and colonial governor William Bradford, her tenth great-grandfather.

During her teen, she attended Portola Middle School and Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, where she was a cheerleader. Sally’s classmates included financier Michael Milken, actress Cindy Williams, and talent agent Michael Ovitz.

Sally Field Husband | Sally Field Children | Is Sally Field Married | Steven Craig Sally Field

Sally from 1968 to 1975 she was married to Steven Craig.  During their marriage, the couple had two sons: Peter Craig (born 1969), a novelist; and Eli Craig (born 1972), an actor and director.

Burt Reynolds And Sally Field

Sally had a relationship with Burt Reynolds in the late 1970s.  During this time they co-starred in several films, including Smokey and the Bandit, Smokey and the Bandit II, The End and Hooper.

After  she ended her relationship with Reynolds, she married second husband Alan Greisman in 1984.  They had one son, Sam who was born in 1987. They  divorced in 1993.

Sally Field Son | Sally Field Son Sam Greisman

Sally during their marriage with Steven had two sons Peter Craig and Eli Craig. Peter is was born on November 10, 1969 and he is a novelist and screenwritter. Eli was born on May 25, 1972 he is a screen writter and film director who started his career as an actor.

Sally Field Dating

Sally has been quite for a while now and it is not clear if she is dating anyone or not since she divorced Burt Reynolds.

Sally Field Grandchildren

From her son Peter Craig she has three grandchildren and from his son Eli Craig she has two grandchildren Noah and colin.

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