Sissy Spacek
Biography
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Sissy Spacek (born Mary Elizabeth Spacek; December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as country star Loretta Lynn in the 1980 film Coal Miner's Daughter. She has been nominated for an Oscar a total of six times. She is also known for her roles as Holly Sargis in Terrence Malick's 1973 film Badlands, and as Carrie White in Brian De Palma's 1976 horror film Carrie, for which she received her first Academy Award nomination.
Spacek is known mainly as a dramatic actress, but also has made comedies. The films that Spacek has starred in have earned more than $700 million worldwide.
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| Acting | |
|---|---|
| 2012 | Deadfall … June |
| 2011 | The Help … Missus Walters |
| 2010 | Get Low … Mattie Darrow |
| 2008 | Four Christmases … Paula |
| 2008 | Lake City … Maggie |
| 2007 | Hot Rod … Marie Powell |
| 2005 | North Country … Alice Aimes |
| 2005 | The Ring Two … Evelyn |
| 2005 | An American Haunting … Lucy Bell |
| 2004 | A Home at the End of the World … Alice Glover |
| 2002 | Tuck Everlasting … Mae Tuck |
| 2001 | In the Bedroom … Ruth Fowler |
| 1999 | Blast from the Past … Helen Thomas Webber |
| 1999 | The Straight Story … Rose Straight |
| 1997 | Affliction … Margie Fogg |
| 1996 | The Grass Harp … |
| 1995 | Streets of Laredo … Lorena Parker |
| 1991 | Hard Promises … |
| 1991 | JFK … Liz Garrison |
| 1990 | The Long Walk Home … Miriam Thompson |
| 1986 | Crimes of the Heart … Babe Magrath |
| 1986 | 'night, Mother … Jessie Cates |
| 1985 | Marie … Marie Ragghianti |
| 1984 | The River … Mae Garvey |
| 1982 | Missing … Beth Horman |
| 1980 | Coal Miner's Daughter … Loretta Lynn |
| 1977 | 3 Women … Pinky Rose |
| 1976 | Carrie … Carrie White |
| 1973 | Badlands … Holly Sargis |
| 1972 | Prime Cut … Poppy |