Sally Field

Dated Burt Reynolds for 4 years, but she refused his marriage proposals and eventually they broke up. He still (2018) says she's the love of his life.

As of 2014, has appeared in four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Norma Rae (1979), Places In The Heart (1984), Forrest Gump (1994) and Lincoln (2012). Forrest Gump (1994) is the only winner in the category. It is also the only film for which she did not give an Oscar nominated performance. She won Best Actress for the first two films.

Is honored by the Palm Springs International Film Festival with its Career Achievement Award on January 5, 2013.

Moved into a new apartment in a prestigious but very low-key building on Horatio St in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. [July 2012]

Her mother, Margaret Field, died on November 6, 2011, the day of Sally's 65th birthday.

In recent years she has played the role of matriarch Nora Walker in the hit television show Brothers & Sisters (2006), which earned her an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2007.

Protested alongside fellow actresses Jane Fonda, Christine Lahti, and playwright Eve Ensler urging the Mexican government to re-investigate the slaying of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juarez, on the Mexico-Texas border. [February 2004]

In 2000 she appeared in the film Where the Heart Is (2000) with Natalie Portman and Ashley Judd, and in 2003 she starred alongside Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde 2 (2003).

Has four grandchildren; Isabel (b. 1998) and Sophie (b. 2001) via son Peter Craig, and Noah (b. 2006) and Colin (b. 2014) via son Eli Craig.

Since then she has appeared in TV movies and miniseries such as A Woman of Independent Means (1995), Merry Christmas, George Bailey (1997), From the Earth to the Moon (1998) and David Copperfield (2000).

A year after, she played the role of Tom Hanks character's mother (even though she's only ten years older than he is in real life) in the film Forrest Gump (1994). The film was a huge commercial success and won six Academy awards.

She also appeared in 12 episodes of ER (1994) from 2000 to 2006.

In 1993 she starred alongside Robin Williams and Pierce Brosnan in the popular comedy Mrs.

Doubtfire (1993).

Was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1989.

In Punchline (1988), she plays Tom Hanks' love interest. In Forrest Gump (1994), they play mother and son.

Was asked to play the lead role in the romantic comedy Moonstruck (1987).

Was the first choice for the role of Veronica Quaife in David Cronenberg's remake The Fly (1986), which went to Geena Davis.

Her 1985 Oscar acceptance speech was mocked by the title character (Jim Carrey) in The Mask (1994), when she won Best Actress for Places in the Heart (1984). Her actual words were "You like me... right now, you like me!" but was often misquoted as "...you really like me!" or "...you really love me!".

Her second marriage was to film producer Alan Greisman from 1984 to 1994. They had one son together, Samuel Greisman.

In the years that followed she starred in films such as Absence of Malice (1981), Kiss Me Goodbye (1982), Places In The Heart (1984) (she received her second Oscar for her role), Murphy's Romance (1985), Punchline (1988) and Steel Magnolias (1989).

Mentioned in the theme song of the 1980s television series The Fall Guy (1981).

In 1979 she starred in the popular film Norma Rae (1979) and she received her first Oscar for that role.

In 1977 she starred alongside then-boyfriend Burt Reynolds in the box office hit Smokey and the Bandit (1977), which led to a less successful sequel in 1980.

Gave birth at age 25 to her second child, a son, Elijah M. Craig (aka Eli Craig), on May 25, 1972. Child's father is her first husband, Steven Craig.

In the next few years she appeared in numerous TV movies and TV shows such as Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring (1971), Marriage: Year One (1971), The Girl with Something Extra (1973), and Sybil (1976).

Gave birth to her first child at age 23, a son, Peter Craig, on November 10, 1969. Child's father is her first husband, Steven Craig.

Sally has been married twice, first to Steven Craig from 1968 to 1973. They had two sons together, Peter Craig and Eli Craig.

She went on to star in The Flying Nun (1967), which ran for three seasons.

She also appeared in her first film in 1967, The Way West (1967) opposite Kirk Douglas.

Her acting career began in 1965, when she landed the role of Frances Elizabeth 'Gidget' Lawrence in Gidget (1965); it was canceled after only one season because of bad ratings.

Graduate of Birmingham High School, Van Nuys, California, Class of 1964 with Michael Ovitz, who later became her agent. Field's class voted her "Class Clown". Another fellow student was Cindy Williams.

Her parents divorced in 1950 and her mother then married stuntman Jock Mahoney, and they had a daughter, Princess O'Mahoney. She also has a brother, Richard Field. Sally attended Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, California.

Sally Margaret Field was born in 1946 in Pasadena, California, to actress Margaret Field (née Morlan) and salesman Richard Dryden Field.

Daughter of Richard Dryden Field (1914-1993), a US Army captain, and Margaret Field (1922-2011), a contract player with Paramount Pictures who starred in B movies. They were married from 1942 until 1950.

Paternal granddaughter of Fleet (1881-1948) and Jane (née Fox) Field (1882-1961). Both were born and raised in the state of Pennsylvania.