Sally Field

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Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is a two-time Academy Award-winning, two-time Emmy-winning, and two-time Golden Globe-winning American film and television actress.

Early life

Career

Sally Field's first major role was in 1965's sitcom Gidget.

Having played mostly comic characters on television, Field was not initially regarded as having much potential as a dramatic actress. In 1976, Field was finally able to show that she could play this kind of role, starring as the title character afflicted with multiple personality syndrome in the TV film Sybil. She won an Emmy Award in 1977 for this performance. 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 one of the best known of its kind. In it, she 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!" [link]. 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.

She has had supporting roles in other movies, including Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994).

On television, Field has a recurring role on ER as Dr. Abby Lockhart's bipolar mother, for which she won an Emmy in 2001. She also starred in the very short-lived 2002 series The Court.

Private life

In 2005, Field was diagnosed with osteoporosis. Her diagnosis led her to create the "Rally With Sally For Bone Health" campaign with support from Roche and GlaxoSmithKline that co-promote Boniva, the first once-monthly treatment for osteoporosis.

Trivia

• While starring on The Flying Nun, Sally tried her hand at singing, releasing an album in 1968 and cracking the Billboard Hot 100 with one single, "Felicidad", in 1967.
• Sally appeared on the cover of the March 1986 issue of Playboy magazine. She was the "Interview" subject in that month's issue. (She did not appear as a pictorial subject inside the magazine).
• Sally was the first choice for Alice in Friday the 13th.
• She has a "Feynman Number" of two, since her brother, theoretical physicist Rick Field, worked with Richard Feynman in the late 1970s.

Filmography

• The Way West (1967)
• Stay Hungry (1976)
• Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
• Heroes (1977)
• The End (1978)
• Hooper (1978)
• Norma Rae (1979) – Academy Award for Best Actress
• Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
• Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)
• Back Roads (1981)
• Absence of Malice (1981)
• Kiss Me Goodbye (1982)
• Places in the Heart (1984) – Academy Award for Best Actress
• Murphy's Romance (1985)
• Surrender (1987)
• Punchline (1988)
• Steel Magnolias (1989)
• Not Without My Daughter (1991)
• Soapdish (1991)
• [[Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey]] (1993) (voice)
• Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
• A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary)
• Forrest Gump (1994)
• Eye for an Eye (1996)
• [[Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco]] (1996)
• Where the Heart Is (2000)
• Say It Isn't So (2001)
• [[Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde]] (2003)
• Going Through Splat: The Life and Work of Stewart Stern (2005) (documentary)