1949-12-25 ( 75 years old ) in Quitman, Texas, USA
Mary Elizabeth 'Sissy' 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, she 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. She 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), she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn in the biographical musical film Coal Miner's Daughter (1980).
Her 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).
She 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 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.
Movies
Sam & Kate
2022-11-11
Without Getting Killed or Caught
2021-07-23
The Old Man & the Gun
2018-09-27
HyperNormalisation
2016-10-25
River of Gold
2016-03-26
Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl
2016-03-04
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014-02-01
Making Badlands
2013-03-19
Deadfall
2012-11-08
The Help
2011-08-09
Get Low
2010-07-30
Four Christmases
2008-11-26
Lake City
2008-01-01
Pictures of Hollis Woods
2007-12-02
Hot Rod
2007-08-03
Gray Matters
2007-02-23
Nine Lives
2005-09-02
An American Haunting
2005-05-05
The Ring Two
2005-03-10
North Country
2005-02-12
A Home at the End of the World
2004-07-23
Absence of Malick
2003-05-26
A Decade Under the Influence
2003-04-25
Tuck Everlasting
2002-10-11
Last Call
2002-05-25
In the Bedroom
2001-11-23
Acting 'Carrie'
2001-08-28
Visualizing 'Carrie'
2001-08-28
Midwives
2001-04-02
Songs In Ordinary Time
2000-10-22
The Straight Story
1999-10-15
The Rage: Carrie 2
1999-03-12
Blast from the Past
1999-02-12
Affliction
1998-02-12
If These Walls Could Talk
1996-09-11
Beyond the Call
1996-06-23
The Grass Harp
1995-09-10
The Good Old Boys
1995-03-05
A Place for Annie
1994-05-01
Trading Mom
1994-03-04
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
1993-01-20
A Private Matter
1992-06-20
Hard Promises
1992-01-31
Fonda on Fonda
1992-01-13
JFK
1991-12-20
The Talking Eggs
1991-09-14
Voices That Care
1991-02-28
The Long Walk Home
1990-12-21
Crimes of the Heart
1986-12-12
'night, Mother
1986-09-12
Violets are Blue
1986-04-04
Marie: A True Story
1985-09-27
The River
1984-12-01
The Man with Two Brains
1983-06-10
Missing
1982-02-12
Raggedy Man
1981-09-18
Heart Beat
1980-04-25
Coal Miner's Daughter
1980-03-07
Verna: USO Girl
1978-01-25
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
1977-11-25
3 Women
1977-04-10
Welcome to L.A.
1976-11-12
Carrie
1976-11-03
Katherine
1975-10-05
The Migrants
1974-02-04
Badlands
1974-01-05
Ginger in the Morning
1973-03-02
The Girls of Huntington House
1973-02-15
Prime Cut
1972-06-01
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