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Sissy Spacek

Actress / Character Actress / Songwriter / Film Actress / Television Actress | * 12/25/1949 (74) | Quitman, Texas (United States of America (USA))
Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (born December 25, 1949) is an American actress. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for four BAFTA Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. Spacek was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011. After attending Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute she had her breakout role in Terrence Malick's crime film Badlands (1973), which earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer. Spacek went on to earn the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of country singer Loretta Lynn in the biographical musical Coal Miner's Daughter (1980). Her other Oscar-nominated roles were in Carrie (1976), Missing (1982), The River (1984), Crimes of..."> ()
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Mary Elizabeth Spacek (born December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for four British Academy Film Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. Spacek was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011.Born and raised in Texas, Spacek initially aspired to a career as a recording artist. In 1968, at age 18, she recorded a single, "John, You Went Too Far This Time," under the name Rainbo. Spacek began her professional acting career in the early 1970s, making her debut as an extra in Andy Warhol's Women in Revolt (1971). Her breakout role came with Terrence Malick's influential crime film Badlands (1973), which earned her a nomination for the British Academy Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles. She rose to international prominence with her portrayal of Carrie White in Brian De Palma's horror film Carrie (1976), for which she received her first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. After appearing in the acclaimed films Welcome to L.A. (1976) and Robert Altman's 3 Women (1977), Spacek won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn in the biographical musical film Coal Miner's Daughter (1980).Spacek's other Oscar-nominated roles include Missing (1982), The River (1984), Crimes of the Heart (1986), and In the Bedroom (2001). Her other prominent films include Raggedy Man (1981), JFK (1991), Affliction (1997), The Straight Story (1999), Tuck Everlasting (2002), Nine Lives (2005), North Country (2005), Four Christmases (2008), Get Low (2010), The Help (2011), and The Old Man & the Gun (2018). She received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the television films The Good Old Boys (1995) and Last Call (2002), and for her guest role on the HBO drama series Big Love (2011). She portrayed matriarch Sally Rayburn on the Netflix drama thriller series Bloodline (2015–2017), Ruth Deaver on the Hulu psychological horror series Castle Rock (2018), and Ellen Bergman on the Amazon Prime Video psychological thriller series Homecoming (2018).Spacek has also ventured into music, and recorded vocals for the soundtrack album of Coal Miner's Daughter, which peaked at number two on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart and garnered her a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. She also released a studio album, Hangin' Up My Heart (1983), which was critically well-received and peaked at number 17 on Billboard Top Country Albums chart.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Documentaries

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Awards & Nominations for Sissy Spacek

Academy Award for Best Actress 2x Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Star On Hollywood Walk of Fame 6x Academy Award for Best Actress
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Movies with Sissy Spacek as Actress(67)

as Tina2022 Sam & Kate
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2016 De Palma
as Self / Loretta Lynn2016 Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl
as Narrator2016 River of Gold
as Self (archive footage)2014 And the Oscar Goes To...
as June2012 Deadfall
as Missus Walters2011 The Help
as Mattie Darrow2009 Get Low
as Maggie2008 Lake City
as Paula2008 Four Christmases
as Josie Cahill2007 Pictures of Hollis Woods
as Marie Powell2007 Hot Rod
as Dr. Sydney2006 Gray Matters
as Alice Aimes2005 North Country
as Lucy Bell2005 An American Haunting
as Evelyn2005 The Ring Two
as Ruth2005 Nine Lives
as Alice Glover2004 A Home at the End of the World
as herself2003 Absence of Malick
as Zelda Fitzgerald2002 Last Call
as Mae Tuck2002 Tuck Everlasting
as Ruth Fowler2001 In the Bedroom
as Self (archive footage)2001 Visualizing 'Carrie'
as Sibyl Danforth2001 Midwives
as herself2001 Acting 'Carrie'
as Marie Fermoyle2000 Songs In Ordinary Time
as Rose Straight1999 The Straight Story
as Carrie White (archive footage) (uncredited)1999 The Rage: Carrie 2
as Helen1999 Blast from the Past
as Margie Fogg1998 Affliction
as Barbara Barrows1996 If These Walls Could Talk
as Pam O'Brien1996 Beyond the Call
as Spring Renfro1995 The Good Old Boys
as Verena Talbo1995 The Grass Harp
as Susan Lansing1994 A Place for Annie
as Mrs. Mommy Martin / Mama, Snappy French / Mom, the Nature-Hiker / Natasha, the Circus Performer1994 Trading Mom
as Self - The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (archive footage)1992 Fonda on Fonda
as Sherri Finkbine1992 A Private Matter
as Christine Ann Coalter1992 Hard Promises
as Liz Garrison1991 JFK
as Self - Choir Member1990 Voices That Care
as Miriam Thompson1990 The Long Walk Home
as Babe Magrath1986 Crimes of the Heart
as Augusta "Gussie" Sawyer1986 Violets Are Blue
as Jessie Cates1986 'night, Mother
as Marie Ragghianti1985 Marie
as Mae Garvey1984 The River
as Anne Uumellmahaye (uncredited) (voice)1983 The Man with Two Brains
as Beth Horman1982 Missing
as Nita1981 Raggedy Man
as Loretta Lynn1980 Coal Miner's Daughter
as Carolyn Cassady1980 Heart Beat
as Mildred "Pinky" Rose1977 3 Women
as Carrie White1976 Carrie
as Linda Murray1976 Welcome to L.A.
as Katherine Alman1975 Katherine
as Wanda Trimpin1974 The Migrants
as Holly Sargis1973 Badlands
as Ginger Brown1973 Ginger in the Morning
as Poppy1972 Prime Cut

TV Shows/Series with Sissy Spacek as Actress(18)

as Irene York2022 Night Sky
as Ellen Bergman2018 Homecoming
as Ruth Deaver2018 Castle Rock
as Sally Rayburn2015 Bloodline
as Marilyn Densham2006 Big Love
as herself1997 The View
as Self - Guest1996 The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Lorena1995 Streets of Laredo
as herself1987 Seitenblicke
as Self - Host / Amy Carter1975 Saturday Night Live
as herself1975 Arena
as Verna Vane1971 Great Performances
as Susan Lansing1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame

Movies with Sissy Spacek as Crew(2)

Art/Set Dresser1977 Death Game
Art/Set Dresser1974 Phantom of the Paradise

Full Name: Maria Sissy Spacek
Born: Sunday, 12/25 1949 (December) in Quitman, Texas (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 74 years + 95 days)
Zodiac sign: Capricorn (Chinese zodiac sign: Ox)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, Quitman High School
Record Label: Atlantic Records
Spouses (current/former): Jack Fisk
Children: Schuyler Fisk
Father: Edwin Arnold Spacek
Mother: Virginia Spilman
Related to: Rip Torn
Other names for Sissy Spacek (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"시시 스페이섹"
"Mary Elizabeth Spacek"
Sissy Spacek frequently works together with these people:
Andy Samberg (29x, Actor)
Bill Hader (22x, Actor)
Fred Armisen (19x, Actor)
Kristen Wiig (17x, Actress)
Kenan Thompson (17x, Actor)
Will Forte (15x, Actor)
Jack Fisk (12x, Crew)
Amy Poehler (11x, Actress)
Maurice Evans (11x, Actor)
Martin Short (10x, Actor)
Glenn Close (10x, Actress)
Julie Harris (10x, Actress)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:7258, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 03/03/2024