1979: NORMA RAE (Drama - PG)

Sally Field won for her performance as the feisty southern textile worker who attempts to unionize the mill where she works.

1984: PLACES IN THE HEART (Drama - PG)

Sally Field won her second Oscar for playing a widowed mother, of two, who's pressured by the bank to sell her property. 

ABOUT SALLY FIELD (1946 - )

American television actress, born in Pasadena California. Sally Field started out playing cute and perky in the television series, GIDGET from 1965-66, and THE FLYING NUN, 1967-70. 

Field next found more deeply textured roles as SYBIL, a 1976 television movie in which she played a tormented character with multiple personality disorder, opposite Joanne Woodward as her psychiatrist.  Sally Field won an Academy Award for her portrayal of fiery union organizer NORMA RAE in 1979.

Sally Field played a newspaper reporter leaking false information, opposite Paul Newman, in Sydney Pollack's ABSENCE OF MALICE.   Field played a widowed Depression farmer who toughs her family through hard times.  She won a second Academy Award for Best Actress for her role.

 In 1985, she played James Garner's love interest in the comedy, MURPHY'S ROMANCE.

Sally Field played the ex-wife and mother in MRS. DOUBTFIRE, a 1993 comedy, in which her ex-husband disguises himself as a grandmotherly baby sitter, in order to spend more time with his own children.  In 1994, Field played the mother of the simple, but lucky title character in FORREST GUMP.

In the long running television series BROTHERS AND SISTERS, 2006-2011 she is part of the ensemble cast. 

Her other credits include:

STAY HUNGRY (1976)
SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT (1977)
HEROES (1977)
HOOPER (1978)
THE END (1978)
BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (1979)
SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT 2 (1980)
ABSENCE OF MALICE (1980)
MURPHY'S ROMANCE (1985)
SURRENDER (1987)
PUNCHLINE (1988)
STEEL MAGNOLIAS (1989)
TWISTED JUSTICE
MRS. DOUBTFIRE (1993)
FORREST GUMP (1994)
NOT WITH MY DAUGHTER (1991)
SOAPDISH (1991)
CONUNDRUM
AN EYE FOR AN EYE (1996)
A COOLER CLIMATE (1999)
TIME FO OUR LIVES
SAY IT ISN'T SO (2001)
WHERE THE HEART IS (2000)
LEGALLY BLONDE 2: RED, WHITE & BLONDE (2003)
TWO WEEKS (2003)
THE LITTLE MERMAID: ARIEL'S BEGINNING (2008)

Sally Field's television credits include:

GIDGET (65 TV series) (1965-1966)
THE FLYING NUN (67-69 TV Series) (1967)
MAYBE I'LL COME HOME IN THE SPRING (1971)
ALIAS SMITH AND JONES (TV Series) (1971-1972)
THE GIRL WITH SOMETHING EXTRA (1973-1974)
MARRIAGE YEAR ONE (1971)
BRIDGER (TV Movie) (1976)
SYBIL (TV Movie) (1976)
ALL THE WAY HOME (1981)
DAVID COPPERFIELD (TV Series) (2000)
A WOMAN OF INDEPENDENT MEANS (Mini-series) (1995)
FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON (Mini-series) (1998)
ER - (TV Series ) (2000-2002_
THE COURT (TV Series) (2002)

Sally with her co-star in STEEL MAGNOLIAS (1989)

Sally Field in NORMA RAE

Sally Field in MRS. DOUBTFIRE

Sally Field in SOAPDISH

Sally Field in SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT (1977)

Sally Field in ABSENCE OF MALICE (1981)

Sally Field in THE END (1978)

Sally Field in ABSENCE OF MALICE (1981)