Sissy Spacek
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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.
Known for
Credits
The Help (2011)
as Missus Walters
Die My Love (2025)
as Pam
Carrie (1976)
as Carrie
JFK (1991)
as Liz Garrison
The Ring Two (2005)
as Evelyn
Blast from the Past (1999)
as Helen
Hot Rod (2007)
as Marie Powell
The Straight Story (1999)
as Rose
Four Christmases (2008)
as Paula
Badlands (1974)
as Holly Sargis
In the Bedroom (2001)
as Ruth Fowler
The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)
as Carrie White (archive footage) (uncredited)
Deadfall (2012)
as June
Affliction (1998)
as Margie Fogg
The Long Walk Home (1990)
as Miriam Thompson
The Catch (2027)
Actor
3 Women (1977)
as Mildred "Pinky" Rose
Tuck Everlasting (2002)
as Mae Tuck
North Country (2005)
as Alice Aimes
The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
as Jewel
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
as Loretta Lynn
'night, Mother (1986)
as Jessie Cates
An American Haunting (2005)
as Lucy Bell
If These Walls Could Talk (1996)
as Barbara Barrows
Missing (1982)
as Beth Horman
The Man with Two Brains (1983)
as Anne Uumellmahaye (uncredited) (voice)
HyperNormalisation (2016)
as Self (archive footage)
Visualizing 'Carrie' (2001)
as Self (archive footage)
Raggedy Man (1981)
as Nita
Last Call (2002)
as Zelda Fitzgerald
Love Letter to Texas (2026)
as Narrator
The River (1984)
as Mae Garvey
The Grass Harp (1996)
as Verena Talbo
Get Low (2010)
as Mattie Darrow
Acting 'Carrie' (2001)
as Self
Prime Cut (1972)
as Poppy
Nine Lives (2005)
as Ruth
A Decade Under the Influence (2003)
as Self
Crimes of the Heart (1986)
as Babe Magrath
Lake City (2008)
as Maggie
Marie: A True Story (1985)
as Marie Ragghianti
Absence of Malick (2003)
as Self
Welcome to L.A. (1976)
as Linda Murray
A Home at the End of the World (2004)
as Alice Glover
The Good Old Boys (1995)
as Spring Renfro
Gray Matters (2007)
as Dr. Sydney
Voices That Care (1991)
as Self - Choir Member
Pictures of Hollis Woods (2007)
as Josie Cahill
A Private Matter (1992)
as Sherri Finkbine
A Place for Annie (1994)
as Susan Lansing
Ginger in the Morning (1974)
as Ginger Brown
Hard Promises (1992)
as Christine Ann Coalter
Songs In Ordinary Time (2000)
as Marie Fermoyle
Beyond the Call (1996)
as Pam O'Brien
Trading Mom (1994)
as Mommy / Mama / Mom / Natasha
Sam & Kate (2022)
as Tina
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick (2002)
as Self
Heart Beat (1980)
as Carolyn Cassady
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy (1993)
as Self
Midwives (2001)
as Sibyl Danforth
Violets Are Blue (1986)
as Augusta "Gussie" Sawyer
The Migrants (1974)
as Wanda Trimpin
Henry Fonda for President (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
A Woman in the Sun (—)
Actor
Katherine (1975)
as Katherine Alman
Making Badlands (2013)
as Self
Fonda on Fonda (1992)
as Self - The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (archive footage)
The Girls of Huntington House (1973)
as Sara
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary (1977)
as Self
Verna: USO Girl (1978)
as Verna Vane
River of Gold (2016)
as Narrator
Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl (2016)
as Self / Loretta Lynn
The Talking Eggs (1991)
as Narrator (voice)
Without Getting Killed or Caught (2021)
as Narrator / Voice of Susanna Clark (voice)