Sally Field to receive SAG lifetime achievement award: How she got her big break with 'Gidget'
foxnews.comOscar-winning actress Sally Field’s career has spanned nearly 60 years, from the time she started playing the precocious teenager Gidget on TV to her new comedy "80 for Brady." On Sunday, the 76-year-old will receive a lifetime achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild. "She has an enduring career because she is authentic in her performance and always projects likability and humanity — she just connects," SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher said in a statement. "That’s part of why she has sustained her massive fandom and incredibly rich and layered career.
Sally is a massive star with a working actor’s ethos — just keep doing the work, being as good as you can. Every stage of an actor’s life brings different opportunities, and you just need to keep working.
Sally does not stop and we hope she never does." Here is a look back at the actress's prolific body of work. "Gidget" Field donned pigtails and a bikini as an 18-year-old when she played spunky teen Gidget in the 1965 comedy series of the same name about a Southern California girl who loves the beach and boys.
It was her first big role. In 2008, Field told Oprah Winfrey she landed the role after a casting director who saw her at an acting workshop asked her to come in for an audition. "The waiting room was filled with girls who looked like movie stars," she said of her "Gidget" audition. "They all had professional headshots; the only pictures I had were wallet photos of me with my friends.
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