Sally Field

 Sally Field was born in 1946 in Pasadena, California. She was born to an actress mother and salesman father, but her parents soon divorced, and her mother remarried to a stuntman. Needless to say, Sally was introduced to show business at an early age. Her acting career began when she was just nineteen. She landed her first role as "Gidget" in Gidget. Although the show was canceled due to poor ratings after just one season, this was the start of a long career in acting. Due to her popularity among television audiences, the network created the series The Flying Nun for her. This television show aired for three seasons, and in the same year began starring in the show, she also appeared in her first film, The Way West.

Sally Field over the next few years went on to appear in numerous television movies and shows including: Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring, Marriage: Year One, The Girl with Something Extra, and Sybil. She also starred in Smokey and the Bandit and Norma Rae. In Norma Rae, she played a mill worker who tried to unionize her workplace. She received her first Oscar for her role in Norma Rae. She also won an Oscar for Best Actress in Places in the Heart. She went on to succeed in leading roles in  Murphy's Romance and Punchline as well as playing smaller roles in numerous notable films such as Mrs. Doubtfire and Forrest Gump. 

Following her appearance as Forrest Gump's mother in 1994, Field has appeared in TV movies and miniseries such as A Woman of Independent Means, Merry Christmas, George Bailey, From the Earth to the Moon, and David Copperfield. She also directed and wrote the 1996 holiday television movie The Christmas Tree, and she won an Emmy for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series in 2001 for her recurring role on ER. She was also seen in Legally Blonde 2 and the popular television series Brothers & Sisters. For her hole as Nora Walker in this show, she was awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. 

On a more personal note, Sally has also been married twice and had three sons: Peter and Eli Craig and Samuel Greisman. Following after their mother in the film industry, Peter is a writer and actor, and Eli is a director and actor. Sally Field has played numerous recognizable characters in films and TV shows from Mary Todd Lincoln in Lincoln to Aunt May in The Amazing Spider-Man. She has not only been an award winning actress, but she is also a published author and a spokesperson for osteoporosis, a disease she has been diagnosed with.