Sissy Spacek
64 movies · 14 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 25, 1949 (age 76)
- Place of birth
- Quitman, Texas, USA
- Also known as
- 시시 스페이섹 · סיסי ספייסיק · Mary Elizabeth Spacek
Biography
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).
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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.
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Known for
Sissy Spacek: movies and TV shows
Acting (75)
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- 2026 Love Letter to Texas
as Narrator
- 2025 Die My Love
as Pam
- 2025
- 2022 Sam & Kate
as Tina
- 2022
- 2021 Without Getting Killed or Caught
as Narrator / Voice of Susanna Clark (voice)
- 2018
- 2018 The Old Man & the Gun
as Jewel
- 2018
- 2016 River of Gold
as Narrator
- 2015
- 2012 Deadfall
as June
- 2011 The Help
as Missus Walters
- 2010 Get Low
as Mattie Darrow
- 2009
- 2008 Four Christmases
as Paula
- 2008 Lake City
as Maggie
- 2007 Pictures of Hollis Woods
as Josie Cahill
- 2007 Hot Rod
as Marie Powell
- 2007 Gray Matters
as Dr. Sydney
- 2006
- 2005 Nine Lives
as Ruth
- 2005 An American Haunting
as Lucy Bell
- 2005 The Ring Two
as Evelyn
- 2005 North Country
as Alice Aimes
- 2004 A Home at the End of the World
as Alice Glover
- 2002 Tuck Everlasting
as Mae Tuck
- 2002 Last Call
as Zelda Fitzgerald
- 2001 In the Bedroom
as Ruth Fowler
- 2001 Midwives
as Sibyl Danforth
- 2000 Songs In Ordinary Time
as Marie Fermoyle
- 1999 The Straight Story
as Rose
- 1999 The Rage: Carrie 2
as Carrie White (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1999 Blast from the Past
as Helen
- 1998 Affliction
as Margie Fogg
- 1996 The Grass Harp
as Verena Talbo
- 1996 If These Walls Could Talk
as Barbara Barrows
- 1996 Beyond the Call
as Pam O'Brien
- 1995
- 1995
- 1995 The Good Old Boys
as Spring Renfro
- 1994 A Place for Annie
as Susan Lansing
- 1994 Trading Mom
as Mommy / Mama / Mom / Natasha
- 1992 A Private Matter
as Sherri Finkbine
- 1992
- 1992 Hard Promises
as Christine Ann Coalter
- 1991 JFK
as Liz Garrison
- 1991 The Talking Eggs
as Narrator (voice)
- 1990 The Long Walk Home
as Miriam Thompson
- 1986 Crimes of the Heart
as Babe Magrath
- 1986 'night, Mother
as Jessie Cates
- 1986 Violets Are Blue
as Augusta "Gussie" Sawyer
- 1985 Marie: A True Story
as Marie Ragghianti
- 1984 The River
as Mae Garvey
- 1983 The Man with Two Brains
as Anne Uumellmahaye (uncredited) (voice)
- 1982 Missing
as Beth Horman
- 1981 Raggedy Man
as Nita
- 1980 Heart Beat
as Carolyn Cassady
- 1980 Coal Miner's Daughter
as Loretta Lynn
- 1978 Verna: USO Girl
as Verna Vane
- 1977 3 Women
as Mildred "Pinky" Rose
- 1976 Welcome to L.A.
as Linda Murray
- 1976 Carrie
as Carrie
- 1975 Katherine
as Katherine Alman
- 1974 Ginger in the Morning
as Ginger Brown
- 1974 The Migrants
as Wanda Trimpin
- 1973 Badlands
as Holly Sargis
- 1973 The Girls of Huntington House
as Sara
- 1972
- 1972
- 1972 Prime Cut
as Poppy
- 1971
- 1951
Behind the camera (4)
- 1997 Eye of God
Thanks
- 1977 Death Game
Set Dresser
- 1974 Phantom of the Paradise
Set Dresser
- 1974 Ginger in the Morning
Songs
Talk shows and appearances (25)
- 2025
- 2018 GQ Presents: Iconic Characters
1 episode
- 2016
- 2016
- 2014 Off Camera with Sam Jones
1 episode
- 2013
- 2011
- 2003
- 2003
- 2002
- 2001
- 2001
- 1997 The View
2 episodes
- 1996 The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1 episode
- 1994 Inside the Actors Studio
1 episode
- 1993
- 1992
- 1991
- 1987 Seitenblicke
1 episode
- 1977
- 1975 Saturday Night Live
1 episode
- 1975 Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1 episode
- 1971 Film '72
1 episode
- 1962 The Merv Griffin Show
1 episode
- 1953 The Oscars
3 episodes