Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American film and television actress and director. She began her career in television, starring in the sitcoms Gidget (1965–66) and The Flying Nun (1967–70). Field moved into film with Smokey and the Bandit (1977) and Norma Rae (1979), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She received Golden Globe nominations for Absence of Malice (1981) and Kiss Me Goodbye (1982), and won a second Oscar for Best Actress for Places in the Heart (1984). Additional Golden Globe nominations followed for Murphy's Romance (1985) and Steel Magnolias (1989).
In the 1990s, Field appeared in films including Not Without My Daughter (1991) and Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), and was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress for Forrest Gump (1994). She returned to television with a recurring role on ER, winning a Primetime Emmy Award in 2001. From 2006 to 2011, she starred as Nora Walker on Brothers & Sisters, winning the 2007 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Field portrayed Mary Todd Lincoln in Lincoln (2012), earning Academy and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress, and appeared as Aunt May in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and its 2014 sequel. She has directed the TV film The Christmas Tree (1996), an episode of From the Earth to the Moon (1998), and the feature film Beautiful (2000). In 2014, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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