Sally Field is a well-known actress who has won Oscars, Emmys, and Golden Globes for her performances in the movies “Forrest Gump,” “Brothers and Sisters,” “Lincoln,” and “Steel Magnolias.”
The 76-year-old actress’s career began in 1965 when she played the title role in “Gidget.” Since then, she has performed on Broadway, in movies, and on television.
Field has also been transparent about her personal issues. In her 2018 memoir “In Pieces,” she talks about how her stepfather sexually abused her as well as her struggles with despair, self-doubt, and loneliness.
Sally Field was born in Pasadena, California, on November 6, 1946. Her father, Richard Dryden Field, was a businessman, and her mother, Margaret Field (née Morlan), was an actress. After her parent’s divorce, her mother wed actor and stuntman, Jock Mahoney. Both Sally’s brother Richard Field and her half-sister Princess O’Mahoney are still alive.
A PERSONAL VIEW OF HER
In 1968, Sally Field wed Steven Craig; the couple had two boys, Peter and Eli. She married Alan Greisman in 1984 after their divorce in 1975. Samuel was their only child together, and they divorced in 1994. She dated Burt Reynolds from 1976 until 1980; the tumultuous relationship is chronicled in her memoir.
She describes how he used his domineering demeanor to persuade Field not to go to the Emmys when she won for “Sybil.” Reynolds actually passed away just a few weeks before the publication of her book, and in his 2015 memoir “But Enough About Me,” he termed their failed romance “the biggest regret of my life.”
Before his death, Fields claimed that they had not spoken for thirty years. She said, “He was not someone I could be around. He simply wasn’t a good fit for me in any way. And in his reassessment of everything, he had somehow constructed the idea that I was more significant to him than he had originally assumed, even though I wasn’t. He merely desired to own the thing he lacked. Simply put, I didn’t want to handle that.
SALLY FIELD TODAY
Today, Sally Field keeps her Oscars and Emmys in the TV room where she spends time with her grandchildren playing video games. With “80 for Brady” coming out in 2023 and her upcoming picture “Spoiler Alert” arriving next week, Field hasn’t yet said that she’ll be retiring.
Steven Spielberg, her friend and the filmmaker of “Lincoln,” remarked of her, “As an actor, she dared this town to typecast her, and then simply broke through every dogmatic barrier to finding her own way — not to stardom, which I imagine she’d decry, but to great roles in great films and television.” “She has survived our ever-changing culture, stood the test of time, and earned this unique place in history through her consistently good taste and feisty persistence.”
