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 Warhols Women in Revolt (1971). Her breakout role came with Terrence Malicks 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 Palmas 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 Altmans 3 Women (1977), she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn in the biographical musical film Coal Miners 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 Miners 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.
Holly Sargis
Film 1974
Self
Film 2001
Self (archive footage)
Film 2001
Poppy
Film 1972
Jessie Cates
Film 1986
Mommy / Mama / Mom / Natasha
Film 1994
Self - Choir Member
Film 1991
Susan Lansing
Film 1994
Sherri Finkbine
Film 1992
Sibyl Danforth
Film 2001
Marie Fermoyle
Film 2000
Zelda Fitzgerald
Film 2002
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Film 2002
Katherine Alman
Film 1975
Sara
Film 1973
Carolyn Cassady
Film 1980
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Carrie White (archive footage) (uncredited)
Film 1999
Josie Cahill
Film 2007
Self (archive footage)
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Self / Loretta Lynn
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Verna Vane
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Anne Uumellmahaye (uncredited) (voice)
Film 1983
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Narrator / Voice of Susanna Clark (voice)
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Narrator
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Self
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Self - The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (archive footage)
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Film 1991
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Tv 1994
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Tv 1997
Tv 1972
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Tv 1953
Tv 2009
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Sally Rayburn
Tv 2015
Martha Jefferson Randolph (voice)
Tv 1995
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Tv 1975
Ruth Deaver
Tv 2018
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Tv 1996
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Tv 1975
Ellen Bergman
Tv 2018
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