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• Sally Field is an American film and television actress currently staring as Nora Holden Walker on ABC's Brothers & Sisters.

  She became a household name in the mid-1960s for her roles on the TV series Gidget and The Flying Nun. She went on to receive Best Actress Academy Awards for 1979's Norma Rae and 1984's Places in the Heart.

  Field's effusive 1985 Oscar acceptance speech is was widely satirized ("You like me! You really like me!").

• Fast Facts

  1. Born: November 6, 1946
  2. Birthplace: Pasadena, CA
  3. Height: 5' 2½"
  4. Awards: 2 Academy Awards, 2 Golden Globe Awards, 2 Emmy Awards
  5. Played Francine "Gidget" Lawrence in Gidget
  6. Played Sister Bertrille in The Flying Nun
  7. Played Edna Spalding in Places in the Heart
  8. Plays Nora Holden Walker in Brothers and Sisters

• Sally Field Quotes

  • "My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies'. I said, 'You're fired'."
  • "My country is still so repressed. Our idea of what is sexual is blonde hair, long legs, 22 years old. It has nothing to do with humour, intelligence, warmth...everything to do with teeth and cleavage."
  • On Burt Reynolds: "What I look for mostly in a man is humor, honesty and a mustache. Burt has all three."

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