Sally Field Through the Years: Sitcom Days, Oscar Wins, Burt Reynolds Relationship, Marriages and More

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One of the greats! Sally Field has tackled a variety of roles throughout her career, from boy-crazy surfers to educated First Ladies.“She dared this town to typecast her, and then simply broke through every dogmatic barrier to find her own way — not to stardom, which I imagine she’d decry, but to great roles in great films and television,” Steven Spielberg — who directed Field in the 2012 biographical drama Lincoln — told Variety of the Oscar winner in March 2022.He continued: “Through her consistently good taste and feisty persistence, she has survived our ever-changing culture, stood the test of time and earned this singular place in history.”Field got her start on sitcoms, playing the titular role — a typical California surfer girl — in Gidget from 1965 to 1966.

She then starred in The Flying Nun from 1967 to 1970, a project she believes prevented her from getting serious roles in subsequent years.

The Mrs. Doubtfire actress told Variety that she had to “claw [her] way out of” the sitcom world “because they wouldn’t let me in a door.”Despite casting frustrations early in her career, Field went on to receive numerous accolades for her work in both film and television, including two Oscars for Best Actress (Norma Rae in 1980 and Places in the Heart in 1985) and three Emmys.

She earned her first Emmy award in 1977 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie as the titular role in Sybil.In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies“I came so armed with emotional information that they couldn’t write me off,” Field told Variety of her audition for the TV movie, in which she played a woman suffering from dissociative identity disorder. “Ultimately, I won the Emmy for that.”As for her personal life,