Sally Field

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!").

• "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."

• Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.

• November 6, 1946: Born

• 1965-66: Gidget

• 1967-70: The Flying Nun

• 1976: Sybil

• 1977: Smokey and the Bandit

• 1979: Norma Rae

• 1981: Absence of Malice

• 1984: Places in the Heart

• 1989: Steel Magnolias

• 1991: Not Without My Daughter

• 1991: Soapdish

• 1993: Mrs. Doubtfire

• 1994: Forrest Gump

• 2000: Where the Heart Is

• 2003: Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

• 2000-06: ER

• 2006-Present: Brothers and Sisters