Change is never easy. The Windswept wishes a Happy Birthday to Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American actress, singer, producer, director, and screenwriter. In each decade of her career, she has been known for her leading roles in the TV series Gidget (1965–66) and The Flying Nun (1967–70), and film roles in Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Norma Rae (1979), Places in the Heart (1984), Steel Magnolias (1989), Not Without My Daughter (1991), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Forrest Gump (1994), The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), and Lincoln (2012). Field is a two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress, for playing Norma Rae Webster in Norma Rae (1979) and Edna Spalding in Places in the Heart (1984). She has received three Emmy Awards for her title role in the TV film Sybil (1976), her guest role on ER (2000), and her role as Nora Holden Walker on ABCs series Brothers & Sisters (2007). She has also won two Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress, as well as the Best Female Performance Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2012, Fields widely praised portrayal of Mary Todd Lincoln in Steven Spielbergs film Lincoln brought her Best Supporting Actress nominations for the Academy Award, the Golden Globe, and the BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild awards. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013. Sally Field was born in Pasadena, California. Her father, Richard Dryden Field, was an Army officer, and her mother, Margaret Field (née Morlan), was an actress. Her parents divorced in 1950; her mother later married actor and stuntman Jock Mahoney. She is a descendant of Mayflower passenger and colonial governor William Bradford. Field got her start on television as the boy-crazy surfer girl in the sitcom Gidget (1965–66). The show was not an initial success and was canceled after a single season. However, summer reruns garnered respectable ratings and ABC had a belated success. Industry practice at the time did not allow for canceled shows to be resurrected, so the network scrambled to find a new starring vehicle for Field. The result was The Flying Nun (1967–70), in which Field portrayed Sister Bertrille for three seasons. From Wikipedia, Love History? Please Share and do give our page a LIkE. Thank you. ;)
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