Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (born December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer who began her career in the early 1970s. She gained attention for her role in the film Badlands (1973) and earned an Oscar nomination for her title role in Brian De Palma's Carrie (1976).
Spacek won the Academy Award for Best Actress for portraying Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) and received Grammy and Golden Globe nominations related to the film. She earned further Oscar nominations for Missing (1982), The River (1984), Crimes of the Heart (1986), and In the Bedroom (2001), winning three Golden Globes in total. Her other films include 3 Women (1977), Raggedy Man (1981), JFK (1991), Affliction (1997), The Straight Story (1999), Nine Lives (2005), and The Help (2011). As of 2015, she stars as Sally Rayburn in the Netflix series Bloodline.
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