Sally Field Bio | Wiki
Sally Field is an American actress. She has received many awards, including two Academy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress.
In 2017, she returned to the stage after an absence of 15 years with the revival of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie. Sally was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. In 2014, she was presented with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 2019, she received the Kennedy Center Honor.
Sally Field Age
Sally was born on November 6, 1946, in Pasadena, California, United States. She is 76 years old.
Sally Field Height
She is a woman of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 3 in (Approx. 1.59 m).
Sally Field Family
She was born in Pasadena, California, to her parents Margaret Field and Richard Dryden Field. Sally’s father served in the Army during World War II. Her brother is Richard D. Field, a physicist and an academic. Sally’s parents were divorced in 1950, afterward, her mother married Jock Mahoney, an actor, and a stuntman. She said in her 2018 memoir that she was sexually abused by Mahoney during her childhood.
Sally Field Husband
Sally has been married twice in her life. She was first married to Steven Craig from 1968 to 1975, though they separated in 1973. The couple had two sons, Peter Craig, a novelist and screenwriter, and Eli Craig, an actor, and director. Sally married her second husband, Alan Greisman, in 1984. Together, they had one son, Sam, in 1987. They divorced in 1994.
Sally Field Education
As a teen, she attended Portola Middle School and Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, where she was a cheerleader. Sally’s classmates included financier Michael Milken, actress Cindy Williams, and talent agent Michael Ovitz.
Sally Field Gidget
Sally got her start on television as the boy-crazy surfer girl in the sitcom Gidget from 1965 to 1966. The show was not an initial success and was canceled after a single season; however, summer reruns garnered respectable ratings, making the show a belated success.
Sally Field Smokey And The Bandit | Burt Reynolds
In 1977, she co-starred with Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, and Jerry Reed in the year’s second-highest-grossing film, Smokey and the Bandit, a 1977 American road action comedy film starring Burt Reynolds, Sally, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Pat McCormick, Paul Williams, and Mike Henry.
The directorial debut of stuntman Hal Needham, the film follows Bo “Bandit” Darville and Cledus “Snowman” Snow, two bootleggers attempting to illegally transport 400 cases of Coors beer from Texarkana to Atlanta.
Sally Field The Flying Nun
Wanting to find a new starring vehicle for Sally, ABC next produced The Flying Nun with Sally cast as Sister Bertrille for three seasons, from 1967 to 1970. In an interview included on the Season One DVD release, Sally said that she thoroughly enjoyed Gidget but hated The Flying Nun because she was not treated with respect by the show’s directors. Sally was then typecast, finding respectable roles difficult to obtain.
Sybil With Sally Field
Soon after studying with Strasberg, Sally landed the title role in the 1976 television film Sybil, based on the book by Flora Rheta Schreiber. Her dramatic portrayal of a young woman afflicted with dissociative identity disorder earned her an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Special Program – Drama or Comedy in 1977 and enabled her to break through the typecasting of her sitcom work.
Sally Field In Forrest Gump
She played Tom Hanks’s mother in Forrest Gump (1994), even though she was only 10 years older than Hanks, with whom she had co-starred six years earlier in Punchline. Forrest Gump is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Eric Roth.
It is based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom and stars Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, and Sally Field. The film follows several decades in the life of a slow-witted and kindhearted Alabama man named Forrest Gump (Hanks) and his experiences in the 20th-century United States. The film differs substantially from the novel.
Sally Field Net Worth
She earns her wealth from her career, therefore, she has amassed a fortune over the years. Sally’s estimated net worth is $55 million.
Is Sally Field Still Alive
Yes. Sally is currently 76 years old. In 2017, she returned to the stage after an absence of 15 years with the revival of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie.