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Sally Field in The Flying NunSally 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
Field was born in Pasadena, California. Her parents, Richard Dryden Field and Margaret Field (a Southern-born actress), divorced in 1950. Her mother re-married to a former stunt-man, Western actor Jock Mahoney.

Career
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 The Flying Nun and The Girl with Something Extra.

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.[1]

She won another Oscar in 1984 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!" [1]. 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
Field dated Burt Reynolds for many years, but never accepted his proposals of marriage. She was first married to Steven Craig from 1968 to 1975. In 1984, she married Alan Greisman, but divorced again in 1993. Field has two sons from her first marriage — one of whom is novelist Peter Craig — and a third son from her second marriage, Sam Greisman, who is close friends with the 'Young Hollywood' crowd, like Lindsay Lohan.

  Two Weeks (2005) .... Anita Bergman
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003) .... Rep. Victoria Rudd
"ER"
- 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
- Beyond Repair (2002) TV Episode (voice) (uncredited) .... Maggie Wyczenski
(6 more)
"The Court" (2002) TV Series .... Justice Kate Nolan
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"
- 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"
- 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"
... aka NBC's Saturday Night (USA: original title)
... aka SNL
... aka SNL 25 (USA: new title)
... aka Saturday Night Live '80 (USA: new 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
Smokey and the Bandit II (1980) .... Carrie/'Frog'
... aka Smokey and the Bandit Ride Again (UK)

"Carol Burnett & Company"
- Episode #1.4 (1979) TV Episode
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) .... Celeste Whitman
Norma Rae (1979) .... Norma Rae
Hooper (1978) .... Gwen Doyle
The End (1978) .... Mary Ellen
Heroes (1977) .... Carol Bell
Smokey and the Bandit (1977) .... Carrie/'Frog'
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
"Night Gallery"
... 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"
- 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."
... 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, Who Bombs Buildings (1970) TV Episode .... Jenny Marsh

"The Flying Nun" (1967) TV Series .... Sister Bertrille (Elsie Ethrington) (1967-1970)
The Way West (1967) .... Mercy McBee
"Hey, Landlord"
- 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"
- No Talent Scouts (1966) TV Episode .... Nancy Zogerdorfer
"Gidget" (1965) TV Series .... Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence