The Life and Career of Oscar Winning Actress, Sally Field

Academy, Emmy, and Golden Globe Award-winning actress Sally Field is known for her roles in “Forrest Gump,” “Brothers and Sisters,” “Lincoln,” and “Steel Magnolias.” The 76-year-old actress began her career with the titular role in “Gidget” 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 “In Pieces,” she opens up about being sexually abused by her stepfather as well as her struggles with depression, self-doubt, and loneliness.
The Beginning of Her Career
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 (née 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’Mahoney. [1]

Her Personal Life
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 “Sybil.” Reynolds actually died just before her book’s release, and in his own memoir, he called their failed relationship “the biggest regret of my life” in his 2015 memoir “But Enough About Me.” [3]

Meanwhile, Fields said they hadn’t spoken for 30 years before his passing. “He was not someone I could be around,” she explained. “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’t. He just wanted to have the thing he didn’t have. I just didn’t want to deal with that.”