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Sally Field

Birth name: Sally Margaret Field

Birth date: 06.11.1946

Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American actress who is a two-time Academy Award and Golden Globe winner; she is also a two-time Emmy Award winner who became a household name at age 20 as Sister Bertrille in the 1960s sitcom, The Flying Nun. She is currently starring as Nora Walker on the ABC hit drama, Brothers & Sisters, as a grieving matriarch who helps out in the family business. Her newest film, Two Weeks came out in early 2007. Field was born in Pasadena, California. Her parents, Richard Dryden Field and Margaret Field (a Southern-born actress), divorced in 1950. Her mother subsequently remarried, to actor and stuntman Jock Mahoney. She attended Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, California; among her classmates were famed financier Michael Milken, fellow actress Cindy Williams (of Laverne and Shirley fame), and the sons of the legendary Steve Allen. Field got her start on television, starring as the boy-struck surfer girl in the mid-1960s series Gidget. She then went on to star in her best known television role, as Sister Bertrille in The Flying Nun. Field also appeared in The Girl with Something Extra. She had several guest appearances, including a recurring role on the western comedy Alias Smith and Jones starring Pete Duel (whom she worked with on Gidget) and Ben Murphy. Having played mostly comic characters on television, Field had a difficult time being cast in dramatic roles. She studied with famed acting teacher Lee Strasberg. Soon after, Field landed the title role in the 1976 TV film Sybil. Field's dramatic portrayal of Sybil, a young woman afflicted with multiple personality syndrome in the TV film not only garnered her an Emmy Award in 1977, but also enabled her to break through the typecasting she had experienced from television roles. Field had a number of critical and commercial successes in movies, particularly in the 1980s. In 1977 she costarred with: Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason and Jerry Reed in that years #2 grossing film Smokey and the Bandit. In 1979, she starred as a union organizer in Norma Rae, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1981, Field played a prostitute opposite Tommy Lee Jones in the South-set comedy Back Roads, which received middling reviews and grossed $11 million at the box office. She won another Oscar in 1985 for her starring role in Places in the Heart; her gushing acceptance speech is well remembered for its earnestness. In it, Field stated "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!". The line ending in "...I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!" is often misremembered as simply "You like me, you really like me!" which has subsequently been the subject of many parodies. (Field parodied the line herself in a commercial.) Also in 1985, she co-starred with James Garner in Murphy's Romance. In A&E's biography of Garner, Field reported that her on-screen kiss with Garner was the best cinematic kiss she had ever had. She has had supporting roles in other movies, including Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) in which she played the wife of Robin Williams and the love interest of Pierce Brosnan followed by the role of Forrest's mother in Forrest Gump (1994). She is only 10 years older than Tom Hanks, with whom she had co-starred six years earlier in Punchline (film). On television, Field has a recurring role on ER as Dr. Abby Lockhart's mother, who is struggling to cope with bipolar disorder, a role for which she won an Emmy Award in 2001. She also starred in the very short-lived 2002 series The Court. Field has also ventured into the realm of directing. Her first directorial stint was for the television film, The Christmas Tree (1996). She also directed the feature film Beautiful (2000), as well as an episode of the TV mini-series, From the Earth to the Moon (1998). Field was a late addition to the ABC drama Brothers & Sisters, which debuted in September 2006. In the show's pilot, the role of matriarch Nora Walker had been played by noted actress Betty Buckley. However, the producers of the show decided to take the character of Nora in another direction, and Field was cast in the role.

Filmography

# "Brothers & Sisters" .... Nora Walker (16 episodes, 2006-2007) - The Other Walker (2007) TV Episode .... Nora Walker - Love Is Difficult (2007) TV Episode .... Nora Walker - Valentine's Day Massacre (2007) TV Episode .... Nora Walker - Something Ida This Way Comes (2007) TV Episode .... Nora Walker - Sexual Politics (2007) TV Episode .... Nora Walker (11 more) # Two Weeks (2006) .... Anita Bergman # "ER" .... Maggie Wyczenski (12 episodes, 2000-2006) - Graduation Day (2006) TV Episode .... Maggie Wyczenski - A Thousand Cranes (2003) TV Episode .... Maggie Wyczenski - A Boy Falling Out of the Sky (2003) TV Episode .... Maggie Wyczenski - Next of Kin (2002) TV Episode .... Maggie Wyczenski - First Snowfall (2002) TV Episode .... Maggie Wyczenski (7 more) # Conviction (2005) (TV) # Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003) .... Rep. Victoria Rudd # "The Court" .... Justice Kate Nolan (3 episodes, 2002) - Stay (2002) TV Episode - Due Process (2002) TV Episode - Life Sentence (2002) TV Episode # Say It Isn't So (2001) .... Valdine Wingfield # David Copperfield (2000) (TV) .... Aunt Betsey Trotwood # Where the Heart Is (2000) .... Mama Lil # A Cooler Climate (1999) (TV) .... Iris # "Murphy Brown" .... Secretary #91, Kathleen Dubek (1 episode, 1998) - Opus One (1998) TV Episode .... Secretary #91, Kathleen Dubek # "From the Earth to the Moon" (1998) (mini) TV Series .... Trudy Cooper # Merry Christmas, George Bailey (1997) (TV) .... Mrs. Bailey/Narrator # "King of the Hill" .... Junie Harper (1 episode, 1997) - Hilloween (1997) TV Episode (voice) .... Junie Harper # Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996) (voice) .... Sassy # Eye for an Eye (1996) .... Karen McCann # "A Woman of Independent Means" (1995) (mini) TV Series .... Bess Alcott Steed Garner # Forrest Gump (1994) .... Mrs. Gump # "Saturday Night Live" .... Host (1 episode, 1993) ... aka SNL (USA: informal title) ... aka SNL 25 (USA: alternative title) - Episode #19.9 (1993) TV Episode .... Host # Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) .... Miranda Hillard # Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993) (voice) .... Sassy # Soapdish (1991) .... Celeste Talbert/Maggie # Not Without My Daughter (1991) .... Betty Mahmoody # Steel Magnolias (1989) .... M'Lynn Eatenton # Punchline (1988) .... Lilah Krytsick # Surrender (1987) .... Daisy Morgan # Murphy's Romance (1985) .... Emma Moriarty # Places in the Heart (1984) .... Edna Spalding # Kiss Me Goodbye (1982) .... Kay Villano # All the Way Home (1981) (TV) .... Mary Follet # Absence of Malice (1981) .... Megan Carter # Back Roads (1981) .... Amy Post ... aka Love with a Sinner (Philippines: English title) # Smokey and the Bandit II (1980) .... Carrie/'Frog' ... aka Smokey and the Bandit Ride Again (UK) # "Carol Burnett & Company" (1 episode, 1979) - Episode #1.4 (1979) TV Episode # Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) .... Celeste Whitman # Norma Rae (1979) .... Norma Rae # Behind the Scenes: Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) (TV) # Hooper (1978) .... Gwen Doyle # The End (1978) .... Mary Ellen # Heroes (1977) .... Carol Bell # Smokey and the Bandit (1977) .... Carrie/'Frog' ... aka Bandit, Bandit (Europe) # Sybil (1976) (TV) .... Sybil Dorsett # Bridger (1976) (TV) .... Jennifer Melford # Stay Hungry (1976) .... Mary Tate Farnsworth # "The Girl with Something Extra" (1973) TV Series .... Sally Burton (unknown episodes) # "Night Gallery" .... Irene (1 episode, 1973) ... aka Rod Serling's Night Gallery (USA) - Whisper (1973) TV Episode .... Irene # Home for the Holidays (1972) (TV) .... Christine Morgan ... aka Deadly Desires # "Alias Smith and Jones" .... Clementine Hale (2 episodes, 1971-1972) - The Clementine Ingredient (1972) TV Episode .... Clementine Hale - Dreadful Sorry Clementine (1971) TV Episode .... Clementine Hale # Mongo's Back in Town (1971) (TV) .... Vikki # Marriage: Year One (1971) (TV) .... Jane Duden # "Marcus Welby, M.D." .... Jan Wilkins / ... (1 episode, 1971) ... aka Robert Young, Family Doctor - I Can Hardly Tell You Apart (1971) TV Episode .... Jan Wilkins/June Wilkins # Hitched (1971) (TV) .... Roselle Bridgeman ... aka Westward the Wagon (UK) # Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring (1971) (TV) .... Denise 'Dennie' Miller ... aka Deadly Desire ... aka Maybe I'll Be Home in the Spring # "Bracken's World" .... Jenny Marsh (1 episode, 1970) - Jenny, Who Bombs Buildings (1970) TV Episode .... Jenny Marsh # "The Flying Nun" .... Sister Bertrille / ... (77 episodes, 1967-1970) - No Tears for Mrs. Thomas (1970) TV Episode .... Sister Bertrille - When Generations Gap (1970) TV Episode .... Sister Bertrille - A Gift for El Charro (1970) TV Episode .... Sister Bertrille - The Candid Commercial (1970) TV Episode .... Sister Bertrille - Papa Carlos (1970) TV Episode .... Sister Bertrille (72 more) # The Way West (1967) .... Mercy McBee # "Hey, Landlord" .... Bonnie Banner (4 episodes, 1967) - A Little Off the Top (1967) TV Episode .... Bonnie Banner - Big Brother Is Watching You (1967) TV Episode .... Bonnie Banner - Sharin' Sharon (1967) TV Episode .... Bonnie Banner - Woody, Can You Spare a Sister? (1967) TV Episode .... Bonnie Banner # "Occasional Wife" .... Nancy Zogerdorfer (1 episode, 1966) - No Talent Scouts (1966) TV Episode .... Nancy Zogerdorfer # "Gidget" .... Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence (4 episodes, 1965-1966)