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Sally Field: Flying Nun
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As an impish surfer girl, nun who flies and Bandit's girlfriend, Sally Field found it difficult to be taken seriously. But that all changed in 1979 when she landed the role of a lifetime, a struggling, good-humored textile worker named Norma Rae. Rich with complications - poor, two kids, divorced and getting remarried, exploited, and smarter than her lot in life - the character proved a perfect match for Field's talent and personality.
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Sally Field was born on November 6, 1946 in Pasadena, California. She was popularly known for her role as Sister Bertrille in the TV show The Flying Nun. Her performance garnered her two Emmy awards and got her even more projects. She ... appeared in Heroes, Smokey and the Bandit, Mrs. Doubtfire, Forrest Gump, Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco, and Steel Magnolias. Currently, she is part of the television show Brothers and Sisters as Nora Holden Walker. Nora Holden Walker is a mother to five siblings and is a grieving widow.
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Guide Note: Sally Field is an American film and television actress. She became a household name in the mid-1960s for her roles on the TV series Gidget and The Flying Nun. She went on to receive great critical acclaim for her dramatic acting career. She received the Academy Award in 1979 for her performance in Norma Rae and in 1984 for her performance in Places in the Heart. Her effusive 1984 Oscar acceptance speech is still widely satirized. ("You like me!") She currently stars as Nora Holden Walker on ABC's Brothers and Sisters.
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Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is a two-time Academy Award winning American actress. She is ... a three-time Emmy Award winner and two-time Golden Globe Award winner who became a household name at age 20 as Sister Bertrille in the 1960s sitcom The Flying Nun. She stars as Nora Holden Walker on the ABC hit drama, Brothers & Sisters, as a grieving matriarch who helps out in the family business.
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Active in high-school dramatics, Field bypassed college to enroll in a summer acting workshop at Columbia studios. Her energy and determination enabled her to win, over hundreds of other aspiring actresses, the coveted starring role on the 1965 TV series Gidget. Gidget lasted only one season, but Field had become popular with teen fans and in 1967 was given a second crack at a sitcom with The Flying Nun; this one lasted three seasons and is still flying around in reruns. Somewhere along the way Field made her film debut in The Way West (1967), but was more or less ignored by moviegoers over the age of 21. Juggling sporadic work on stage and TV with a well-publicized first marriage (she was pregnant during Flying Nun's last season), Field set about shedding her "perky" image in order to get more substantial parts. Finally in 1976, Field proved her mettle as an actress in the TV movie Sybil, winning an Emmy for her virtuoso performance as a woman suffering from multiple personalities stemming from childhood abuse.
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Sally Field's mother and stepfather were both actors, and she was usually the star of her school plays. After high school she was invited to an actors' workshop at Columbia Studios, where she was promptly signed to star as Gidget in a sitcom based on the hit movies of the late 1950s and '60s, with Field taking Sandra Dee's role as the beach babe and Don Porter as her bookish father. Her second sitcom, The Flying Nun, offered Field as a novice nun whose winged headdress provided just the right aerodynamics to lift her off the ground when she tilted her head just so. The show was lighter than air but Field was adorable, and it featured a teenaged Shelley Morrison as a Puerto Rican nun. Field's third sitcom was the mid-1970s dud The Girl with Something Extra, a rip-off of Bewitched where Field could read minds, but kept her talent a secret from her husband (John Davidson) until their wedding night.
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