{"id":4014,"date":"2024-08-05T18:49:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T18:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/?p=4014"},"modified":"2024-08-05T18:49:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T18:49:10","slug":"the-life-and-career-of-oscar-winning-actress-sally-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/the-life-and-career-of-oscar-winning-actress-sally-field\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life and Career of Oscar Winning Actress, Sally Field"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/newsweekly.site%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/08%5C/image-11.png%5C%22" alt='\"\"\/'>\n\n\n\n<p>Academy, Emmy, and Golden Globe Award-winning actress Sally Field is known for her roles in \u201c<em>Forrest Gump,\u201d \u201c<em>Brothers and Sisters,\u201d&nbsp;<em>\u201cLincoln,\u201d&nbsp;and \u201c<em>Steel Magnolias.\u201d&nbsp;The 76-year-old actress began her career with the titular role in \u201c<em>Gidget\u201d&nbsp;in 1965. Since then, she has appeared in various TV shows, movies, and Broadway shows. Field has also been outspoken about her personal challenges. In her 2018 memoir \u201c<em>In Pieces,\u201d&nbsp;she opens up about being sexually abused by her stepfather as well as her struggles with depression, self-doubt, and loneliness.\n\n\n\n<h2 class='\"wp-block-heading\"' id='\"h-the-beginning-of-her-career\"'><strong>The Beginning of Her Career\n\n\n\n<p>Sally Field was born in Pasadena, California, on November 6, 1946. Her father, Richard Dryden Field, was a salesman and her mother was actress Margaret Field (n\u00e9e Morlan). After her parents divorced, her mother married actor and stuntman Jock Mahoney. Sally has a brother, Richard Field, and a half-sister, Princess O\u2019Mahoney.&nbsp;[1]\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/i0.wp.com%5C/newsweekly.site%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/08%5C/image-11.png?resize=536%2C625&amp;ssl=1%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-3507\"\/'>\n\n\n\n<h2 class='\"wp-block-heading\"'><strong>Her Personal Life\n\n\n\n<p>Sally Field married Steven Craig in 1968, and they had two sons, Peter and Eli. They divorced in 1975, and she married Alan Greisman in 1984. They had one son together, Samuel, before divorcing in 1994. From 1976 to 1980, she dated Burt Reynolds, a difficult relationship she discusses in her memoir. She recounts his controlling behavior and how he convinced Field not to attend the Emmy ceremony where she won for \u201c<em>Sybil.\u201d&nbsp;Reynolds actually died just before her book\u2019s release, and in his own memoir, he called their failed relationship \u201c<em>the biggest regret of my life\u201d in his 2015 memoir&nbsp;<em>\u201cBut Enough About Me.\u201d&nbsp;[3]\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Fields said they hadn\u2019t spoken for 30 years before his passing. \u201c<em>He was not someone I could be around,\u201d\u00a0she explained. \u201c<em>He was just not good for me in any way. And he had somehow invented in his rethinking of everything that I was more important to him than he had thought, but I wasn\u2019t. He just wanted to have the thing he didn\u2019t have. I just didn\u2019t want to deal with that.\u201d\n\n\n\n<p>In hindsight, Field made connections between her relationship with Reynolds \u2014 which she described as \u201c<em>confusing and complicated, and not without loving and caring, but really complicated and hurtful to me\u201d \u2014 and her relationship with her stepfather. In her memoir, she also talks about her stepfather\u2019s abuse, when he would frequently call her to his room when she was 14.&nbsp;<em>\u201cI felt both a child, helpless, and not a child,\u201d&nbsp;she wrote.<em>&nbsp;\u201cPowerful. This was power. And I owned it. But I wanted to be a child \u2014 and yet.\u201d&nbsp;[4]\n\n\n\n<p>Field later found out that her mother had known about the abuse all along, but her husband had lied and said it only happened once when he was drunk. Field had told her it was&nbsp;<em>\u201call through my childhood\u201d&nbsp;and wrote the memoir after her mother died.&nbsp;<em>\u201cIt was the only way I was going to find the pieces of my mother that I couldn\u2019t put together. And until I could see that, I couldn\u2019t forgive her, and I needed to forgive her or at least understand her. So I wrote the book to forgive her.\u201d&nbsp;[5]\n\n\n\n<h2 class='\"wp-block-heading\"'><strong>Sally Field Today\n\n\n\n<p>These days, Sally Field keeps her Oscars and Emmys in a TV room where she plays video games with her grandkids. So far, Field shows no signs of retiring with her film \u201c<em>Spoiler Alert\u201d releasing next week, as well as&nbsp;<em>\u201c80 for Brady\u201d&nbsp;coming in 2023.\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/i0.wp.com%5C/recipmo.com%5C/wp-content%5C/webp-express%5C/webp-images%5C/uploads%5C/2023%5C/05%5C/Screenshot_3-2.png.webp?w=640&amp;ssl=1%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-9462\"\/'>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>As an actor, she dared this town to typecast her, and then simply broke through every dogmatic barrier to find her own way \u2014 not to stardom, which I imagine she\u2019d decry, but to great roles in great films and television,\u201d said Steven Spielberg, her friend and \u201c<em>Lincoln\u201d&nbsp;director. \u201c<em>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.\u201d\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class='\"mh-excerpt\"'><p>Academy, Emmy, and Golden Globe Award-winning actress Sally Field is known for her roles in \u201cForrest Gump,\u201d \u201cBrothers and Sisters,\u201d&nbsp;\u201cLincoln,\u201d&nbsp;and \u201cSteel Magnolias.\u201d&nbsp;The 76-year-old actress began <a class='\"mh-excerpt-more\"' href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/sciencesandnatures.com%5C/the-life-and-career-of-oscar-winning-actress-sally-field%5C/%5C%22" title='\"The' life and career of oscar winning actress sally field>[&hellip;]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4016,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014\/revisions\/4016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</a></p></div></em></em></em></p></figure></em></em></p></strong></h2></em></em></p></em></em></em></p></em></em></p></em></em></em></p></strong></h2></figure></p></strong></h2></em></em></em></em></em></em></p></figure>