Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American actress. She became a household name at the age of 20 as Sister Bertrille in the 1960s sitcom The Flying Nun. She has won two Academy Awards, one for Norma Rae in 1979, and another for Places in the Heart in 1984.
Field has won numerous awards, including Golden Globes, Primetime Emmy Awards and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress.
She won an Emmy Award for her guest appearances on...
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Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American actress. She became a household name at the age of 20 as Sister Bertrille in the 1960s sitcom The Flying Nun. She has won two Academy Awards, one for Norma Rae in 1979, and another for Places in the Heart in 1984.
Field has won numerous awards, including Golden Globes, Primetime Emmy Awards and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress.
She won an Emmy Award for her guest appearances on ER and for her role as Nora Holden Walker on the ABC drama Brothers & Sisters, currently in its fourth season, as the Walker family matriarch.
Sally Field was born in Pasadena, California, the daughter of Maggie, an actress, and Richard Dryden Field, who worked in sales. Her parents divorced in 1950 and her mother subsequently remarried to actor and stuntman Jock Mahoney.
She attended Portola Middle School, then Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, California where she was a cheerleader. Among her classmates were famed financier Michael Milken...
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