Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (born December 25, 1949 in
Quitman, TexasQuitman is a city in Wood County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,030 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Wood County. It is notable for being the birthplace of American actress and singer Sissy Spacek.-Geography:...
) is an American actress and singer. Her screen debut was in the 1972 film
Prime CutPrime Cut is a 1972 American film produced by Joe Wizan and directed by Michael Ritchie, with a screenplay written by Robert Dillon. The movie stars Lee Marvin as a mob enforcer from Chicago sent to Kansas to collect a debt from a meatpacker boss played by Gene Hackman...
co-starring
Lee MarvinLee Marvin was an American film actor. Known for his gravelly voice, white hair and 6' 2" stature, Marvin at first did supporting roles, mostly villains, soldiers and other hardboiled characters, but after winning an Academy Award for Best Actor for his dual roles in Cat Ballou, he landed more...
and
Gene HackmanEugene Allen "Gene" Hackman is an American actor and currently a novelist.Hackman has made 80 films. He came to fame in 1967 when his performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde earned him his first Oscar nomination...
.
International prominence would soon follow in the 1970s, as she began starring in a number of critically-acclaimed cult classics for renowned directors such as
Terrence MalickTerrence "Terry" Malick is an American filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. In a career spanning decades, Malick has directed one short film and four feature-length films....
,
Brian de PalmaBrian De Palma is an American film director. In a career spanning over forty years, he is probably best known for his suspense and thriller films, including such box office successes as Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, Carlito's Way, The Untouchables, and Mission: Impossible.Throughout the 1970s...
and
Robert AltmanRobert Bernard Altman was an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective...
. Her most famous performance is as the blood-spattered eponymous heroine of de Palma's 1976 high-school melodrama/horror film
Carrie (based on the
Stephen KingStephen Edwin King is an American writer of contemporary horror fiction, science fiction, fantasy literature, and screenplays. An estimated 300–350 million copies of King's novels and short story collections have been sold, and many of his stories have been adapted for film, television, and...
novelCarrie is American author Stephen King's first published novel, released in 1974. It revolves around the titular character Carrie, a shy high-school girl, who uses her newly discovered telekinetic powers to exact revenge on those who tease her...
of the same name). She is one of the very few actresses ever nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in a
horror film (Carrie).
In the 1980s she became a mainstream Hollywood leading lady, winning the
Best Actress OscarPerformance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...
in 1980 for her role as country star
Loretta LynnLoretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter; she was one of the leading country vocalists and songwriters during the 1960s and is revered as a country music cultural icon....
in
Coal Miner's DaughterCoal Miner's Daughter is an American 1980 biographical film which tells the story of country music performer Loretta Lynn. It stars Sissy Spacek in her Academy Award for Best Actress winning role, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo and Levon Helm, and was directed by Michael Apted.-Background:The...
, and garnering three other nominations that decade. Spacek is known mainly as a dramatic actress, but has made occasional (and generally successful) forays into light comedy. The films Spacek has starred in have earned over $700 million world wide.
Early life
Špaček was born in
Quitman, TexasQuitman is a city in Wood County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,030 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Wood County. It is notable for being the birthplace of American actress and singer Sissy Spacek.-Geography:...
, the daughter of Virginia Frances (
néeA married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
Spilman) and Edwin Arnold Spacek, Sr., a county agricultural agent. Her paternal grandparents, Mary Červenka and Arnold A. Špaček (who served as Mayor of Granger, Texas in Williamson County), were of
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n/
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/
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n descent. Spacek's mother was from the
Rio Grande ValleyThe Rio Grande Valley aka, The Valley, is an area located in the southernmost tip of South Texas. It lies along the northern bank of the Rio Grande, which separates Mexico from the United States....
of
TexasTexas is the second-largest U.S. state in both area and population, and the largest state in the contiguous United States.The name had wide usage among native Americans, meaning "friends" or "allies"...
. Spacek was given the nickname Sissy by her older brothers. She was greatly affected by the death of her eighteen-year old brother, Robbie, in 1967. Spacek decided life was too short to waste in college and moved to
New York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...
hoping to become a singer. Here she lived with her cousin, the actor
Rip TornRip Torn is an American actor. His work includes the role of Artie on The Larry Sanders Show, for which he was nominated for six Emmy awards, winning in 1996. Torn won an American Comedy Awards for Funniest Supporting Male in a Series, two CableACE Awards for his work on The Larry Sanders Show...
, and his wife, the actress
Geraldine PageGeraldine Sue Page was an Academy Award-winning American actress. Although she starred in at least two dozen feature films, she is primarily known for her celebrated work in the American theater.-Early life:...
.
Career
Špaček started out as a country singer, recording one single ("John, You've Gone Too Far This Time"), about
John LennonJohn Winston Ono Lennon, MBE was an English rock musician, singer-songwriter, author, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles...
, an expression of her shock over the
Two Virgins cover under the name 'Rainbo'. With the help of her cousin, actor
Rip TornRip Torn is an American actor. His work includes the role of Artie on The Larry Sanders Show, for which he was nominated for six Emmy awards, winning in 1996. Torn won an American Comedy Awards for Funniest Supporting Male in a Series, two CableACE Awards for his work on The Larry Sanders Show...
, she was able to enroll in
Lee StrasbergLee Strasberg was an American actor, director and acting teacher. He cofounded, with director Harold Clurman, the Group Theatre in 1931, which was hailed as "America's first true theatrical collective". In 1951, he became director of the non-profit Actors Studio, in New York City, considered "the...
's
Actors StudioThe Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights at 432 West 44th Street in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded October 5, 1947 by Elia Kazan, Cheryl Crawford, Robert Lewis and Anna Sokolow who taught...
and then the Lee Strasberg Institute in
New York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...
.
1970s
Her first credited role was in the 1972 cult classic
Prime CutPrime Cut is a 1972 American film produced by Joe Wizan and directed by Michael Ritchie, with a screenplay written by Robert Dillon. The movie stars Lee Marvin as a mob enforcer from Chicago sent to Kansas to collect a debt from a meatpacker boss played by Gene Hackman...
, in which she played Poppy, a young girl sold into
sexual slaverySexual slavery is the organized coercion of unwilling people into different sexual practices. Sexual slavery may include single-owner sexual slavery, ritual slavery sometimes associated with traditional religious practices, slavery for primarily non-sexual purposes where sex is common, or forced...
. This was a striking debut, Spacek demonstrating her capacity for combining intense sexuality with a child-like blankness, a characteristic that would mark almost all of her work in the seventies. This role led to TV work which included a small role in
The WaltonsThe Waltons is an American television series created by Earl Hamner, Jr., based on his book Spencer's Mountain, and a 1963 film of the same name, starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara. The show centered on the titular family growing up in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and...
, where she uttered the well known line "When are you going to stop being John Boy and start being John Man?". But her landmark role of this period and the role that brought her to international attention, came in 1973: Holly in
Terrence MalickTerrence "Terry" Malick is an American filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. In a career spanning decades, Malick has directed one short film and four feature-length films....
's
Badlands. As Holly, the 15-year old, baton-twirling girlfriend of mass-murderer Kit (played by
Martin SheenRamón Estévez, better known by his stage name Martin Sheen, is an actor best known for his performances as Captain Willard in the film Apocalypse Now and President Josiah Bartlet on the television series The West Wing...
), Spacek gave a memorable and sinister performance. Narrating the film's grotesque events in almost comically-listless monotone, Holly is a truly bewildering character, apparently devoid of shock, sentiment, or the capacity for an appropriate response to anything. Spacek has described
Badlands as the "most incredible" experience of her career. It was on the set of
Badlands that Spacek met art director
Jack FiskJack Fisk is an Academy Award-nominated American movie industry professional, frequently working as either a production designer or art director on Hollywood movies....
, whom she would soon marry.
Spacek's iconic and career-defining role came in 1976 with
Brian De PalmaBrian De Palma is an American film director. In a career spanning over forty years, he is probably best known for his suspense and thriller films, including such box office successes as Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, Carlito's Way, The Untouchables, and Mission: Impossible.Throughout the 1970s...
's
Carrie, in which she played
Carrie WhiteCarietta "Carrie" N. White is a fictional character created by Stephen King. She was the main focus of his first published novel entitled Carrie...
, a universally bullied and despised teenager with telekinetic powers. Spacek's fragile beauty and painfully vulnerable charm made Carrie a far more sympathetic character than the character in
Stephen KingStephen Edwin King is an American writer of contemporary horror fiction, science fiction, fantasy literature, and screenplays. An estimated 300–350 million copies of King's novels and short story collections have been sold, and many of his stories have been adapted for film, television, and...
's original novel, and her performance is blistering in its emotional honesty. Yet, incredibly, Spacek had to work hard to persuade director de Palma to engage her for the role, set as he was on an alternative actress, whose identity remains to this day shrouded in mystery. Rubbing
VaselineVaseline® is a brand of petroleum jelly based products owned by Anglo-Dutch company Unilever. Products include plain petroleum jelly and a selection of skin creams, lotions, cleansers, deodorants and lubricants....
into her hair, and donning an old sailor-dress her mother had made for her as a child, Spacek turned up to the audition with the odds stacked against her, but blew her competition out of the water. She was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best ActressPerformance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...
for her work in the film. (Veteran actress
Piper LaurieRosetta Jacobs, better known as Piper Laurie , is an American actress of stage and screen noted for her roles in the television series Twin Peaks and the film Carrie.-Early life:...
, who played Carrie's religiously maniacal mother
Margaret WhiteMargaret White is a fictional character created by Stephen King. She was one of the main characters of his first published novel, Carrie. She was the abusive mentally ill religious fanatic mother of Carrie White, who harnessed the terrifying power of telekinesis.In every adaptation and portrayal of...
, was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Supporting ActressPerformance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the...
.)
After
Carrie Spacek played the small but amusing role of topless house-keeper Linda Murray in
Alan RudolphAlan Steven Rudolph is an American film director and screenwriter.-Personal life:Rudolph was born in Los Angeles, the son of Oscar Rudolph , a television director and actor...
's bizarre ensemble piece
Welcome to LA (1976), but cemented her reputation as one of the best actresses in independent cinema in
Robert AltmanRobert Bernard Altman was an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective...
's 1977 classic
3 Women. As Pinky Rose, the literally vacant waif who will suck the soul out of
Shelley DuvallShelley Alexis Duvall is an American film and television actress. She began her career in the 1970s films of Robert Altman, followed by roles in movies by Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick, Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton.-Early career:...
's tragically superficial Millie Lammoreaux, Spacek would reveal an astonishing range, shifting from quasi-retarded child-oaf to glamorously brittle queen bitch within the film's first hour. Altman himself was deeply impressed by her performance, stating: 'She's remarkable, one of the top actresses I've ever worked with. Her resources are like a deep well.' Meanwhile, de Palma now enthused: 'Sissy's a phantom. She has this mysterious way of slipping into a part, letting it take over her. She's got a wider range than any young actress I know.' Spacek also helped to finance then-brother-in-law
David LynchDavid Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker and visual artist. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, for The Elephant Man , Blue Velvet , and Mulholland Drive . He also received a screenplay Academy Award nomination for The Elephant Man...
's directorial debut, the instantaneous art-house/horror classic
EraserheadEraserhead is a surrealist-horror film written and directed by David Lynch, and released in . In 1971, Lynch moved to Los Angeles to pursue an MFA degree at the AFI Conservatory. At the Conservatory, Lynch began working on his first feature-length film, Eraserhead, using a $10,000 grant from the AFI...
(1976), and is thanked for her trouble in the credits of that film.
In 1979's
Heart Beat, Spacek played the debonair socialite
Carolyn CassadyCarolyn Elizabeth Robinson Cassady is an American writer associated with the Beat Generation through her marriage to Neal Cassady and her friendships with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and other prominent Beat figures...
, slipping (under the influence of John Heard's
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac was an American author, poet and painter. Alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, he is considered a pioneer of the Beat Generation....
and
Nick NolteNicholas King "Nick" Nolte is an American actor, film producer and former model.-Early life:Nolte was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Helen , a department store buyer, and Franklin A. Nolte, a farmer's son who worked in irrigation pump sales and was an All-American candidate at Iowa State in...
's
Neal CassadyNeal Leon Cassady was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic movement of the 1960s, perhaps best known for being characterized as Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac
's novel On the Road.-Life:Cassady was born to Maude Jean Scheuer and Neal Marshall...
) into a frustrating combination of drudgery and (mild) debauchery. The film was not a hit, but emerges as a minor gem, insightful into the hypocrisies of 1950s America and the disappointments of failed transgression.
1980s
Spacek began the decade with an
OscarPerformance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...
in 1980 for
Coal Miner's DaughterCoal Miner's Daughter is an American 1980 biographical film which tells the story of country music performer Loretta Lynn. It stars Sissy Spacek in her Academy Award for Best Actress winning role, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo and Levon Helm, and was directed by Michael Apted.-Background:The...
, in which she played country music star
Loretta LynnLoretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter; she was one of the leading country vocalists and songwriters during the 1960s and is revered as a country music cultural icon....
. Film critic
Roger EbertRoger Joseph Ebert is an American film critic and screenwriter.He is known for his film review column and for two television programs Sneak Previews and Siskel & Ebert at the Movies, which he co-hosted for a combined 23 years with Gene Siskel...
credited the success that was
Coal Miner's Daughter, "to the performance by Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn. With the same sort of magical chemistry she's shown before, when she played the high school kid in Carrie, Spacek at twenty-nine has the ability to appear to be almost any age onscreen. Here she ages from about fourteen to somewhere in her thirties, always looks the age, and never seems to be wearing makeup."
Spacek was also nominated for a
Grammy AwardThe Grammy Awards —or Grammys—are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry...
for her singing on that film's
soundtrackA soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized...
album. She followed this with her own country album,
Hangin' Up My Heart in 1983; the album spawned one hit single, "Lonely But Only For You," a song written by K.T. Oslin which reached #15 on the Billboard Country chart.
The 1980s were a solid decade for Spacek. She consolidated her position as one of Hollywood's leading actresses, even if the disquieting 'edge' of her seventies persona was dulled somewhat. She starred alongside
Jack LemmonJohn Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III was an American actor. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts, Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger, The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing, Glengarry Glen...
in Costa-Gavras's political thriller
MissingMissing is a 1982 film directed by Costa Gavras, starring Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea and Charles Cioffi. It is based on the true story of American journalist Charles Horman, who disappeared in the bloody aftermath of the US-backed Chilean coup of 1973 that deposed...
(1982),
Mel GibsonMel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson, AO is an American Australian actor, film director and producer and screenwriter. Born in Peekskill, New York, Gibson moved with his parents to Sydney when he was 12 years old and later studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art.After appearing in the Mad...
in the rural drama
The River (1984), and
Diane KeatonDiane Keaton is an American film actress, director, and producer. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970...
and
Jessica LangeJessica Phyllis Lange is an American stage and screen actress. With a career that has spanned thirty-five years and six Academy Award nominations , she may be most notable for her performances in Frances, Tootsie, Sweet Dreams, Blue Sky, and Grey Gardens.-Early life:Lange, the third of four...
in 1986's
Crimes of the Heart. She was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for all of these roles. Other notable performances of the decade included poignant star turns in husband Jack Fisk's directorial debut
Raggedy Man (1981), and opposite
Anne BancroftAnne Bancroft was an American actress associated with the method school of acting.-Early life:Bancroft was born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano in the Bronx, New York, the daughter of Mildred , a telephone operator, and Michael Italiano, a dress pattern maker...
in the harrowing suicide drama Night Mother
(1986). She also showed her lighter side by agreeing to play the voice of the brain in the Steve MartinStephen Glenn "Steve" Martin is an American actor, comedian, writer, playwright, producer, musician, and composer. He was raised in Southern California in a Baptist family, where his early influences were working at Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm and working magic and comedy acts at these and...
comedy The Man with Two Brains
(1983). By the end of 1986 Spacek retired to her farm in Virginia to raise her children and would not appear in another film until 1990.
1990s
The 1990s saw Spacek slowly come back to Hollywood, after her self-imposed hiatus. She had a supporting role as Kevin CostnerKevin Michael Costner is an American actor, musician, producer, and director. He has been nominated for three BAFTA Awards, won two Oscars and a Golden Globe Award. Costner's roles include Lt. John J...
's wife in Oliver StoneWilliam Oliver Stone is an American film director and screenwriter. Stone came to prominence as a director with a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an American infantry soldier, and his work continues to focus frequently on contemporary political and cultural...
's JFKJFK is a 1991 American film directed by Oliver Stone. It examines the events leading to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and alleged subsequent cover-up, through the eyes of former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison...
(1991), she made a number of comedies, TV movies, and the occasional interesting film. Most notable were her hilarious turn as the villainous Verena Talbo in 1995's whimsical but underrated ensemble piece The Grass Harp
(which reunited her with both Piper LaurieRosetta Jacobs, better known as Piper Laurie , is an American actress of stage and screen noted for her roles in the television series Twin Peaks and the film Carrie.-Early life:...
and Jack LemmonJohn Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III was an American actor. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts, Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger, The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing, Glengarry Glen...
), a fiercely sympathetic supporting performance (opposite Nick Nolte again) as the waitress Margie Fogg in Paul SchraderPaul Joseph Schrader is an American screenwriter and film director. His influences include Robert Bresson, Yasujiro Ozu and Carl Dreyer, whose cross-cultural similarities he examined in Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer in 1972...
's terrifying father-son psychodrama Affliction
(1997), and a brilliant study in middle-aged, stuttering low confidence, as Rose Straight in David LynchDavid Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker and visual artist. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, for The Elephant Man , Blue Velvet , and Mulholland Drive . He also received a screenplay Academy Award nomination for The Elephant Man...
's charming family epic The Straight StoryThe Straight Story is a 1999 film directed by David Lynch. It is based on the true story of Alvin Straight's journey across Iowa and Wisconsin on a lawnmower. The film was edited and produced by Mary Sweeney, Lynch's longtime partner and co-worker. She co-wrote the script with John E...
(1999).
2000s
The last decade has seen Spacek excel in a number of film roles. In 2001, she was nominated again for the Academy Award for Best ActressPerformance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...
for her work in Todd FieldWilliam Todd Field, known professionally as Todd Field is an American actor, producer, composer, screenwriter, and three time Academy Award-nominated writer/director.-Background and personal life:...
's In the BedroomIn the Bedroom is a 2001 American film directed by Todd Field, and dedicated to Andre Dubus whose short story Killings is the source material from which the screenplay, by Field and Robert Festinger, is based...
. New York Times film critic Stephen Holden said of her work in the film:
"Ms. Spacek's performance is as devastating as it is unflashy. With the slight tightening of her neck muscles and a downward twitch of her mouth, she conveys her character's relentlessness, then balances it with enough sweetness to make Ruth seem entirely human. It is one of Ms. Spacek's greatest performances.
Her portrayal of a grieving mother consumed by revenge, Ruth Fowler, won extraordinary praise and garnered the New York and Los Angeles Film Critics Awards for
Best ActressBest Actress can refer to:* Academy Award for Best Actress* BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role* Best Actress categories at the BAFTA film and television awards* Filmfare Best Actress Award* IIFA Best Actress Award...
.
Other notable performances of this decade include her moving portrayal of quietly unfaithful wife Ruth in
Rodrigo GarciaRodrigo García Barcha is a television and film director.He is the son of Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha Pardo....
's incredible feminist L.A.-based puzzle
Nine LivesNine Lives is a 2005 American drama film written and directed by Rodrigo García. The screenplay, an example of hyperlink cinema, relates nine short, loosely intertwined tales with nine different women at their cores. Their themes include parent-child relationships, fractured love, adultery,...
(2005), and a recent turn as a woman suffering from Alzheimer's in the television movie Pictures of Hollis Woods
(2007). In 2008, Spacek had a cameo appearance in the Christmas movie Four ChristmasesFour Christmases is a Christmas-themed romantic comedy film about a couple who go to see their divorced parents in one day...
(2008) and a lead role in the independent drama, Lake CityLake City is a 2008 film directed by Perry Moore and Hunter Hill and stars Sissy Spacek, Troy Garity, and Dave Matthews. It was filmed in Virginia was released in a single theater on November 21, 2008....
(2008).
Spacek joined the HBO drama Big LoveBig Love is an American television drama on HBO about a fictional fundamentalist Mormon family in Utah that practices polygamy. Big Love stars Bill Paxton, Chloë Sevigny, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ginnifer Goodwin, Harry Dean Stanton, Amanda Seyfried, Douglas Smith, Grace Zabriskie, and Matt Ross.The...
for a multi-episode arc as a powerful Washington, D.C., lobbyist.
Personal life
Spacek married production designer Jack FiskJack Fisk is an Academy Award-nominated American movie industry professional, frequently working as either a production designer or art director on Hollywood movies....
in 1974. Fisk directed her in the films Raggedy Man
and Violets Are Blue
and was Oscar-nominated for his production design in 2007's There Will Be Blood. They have two daughters, Schuyler Elizabeth and Madison Fisk.
Schuyler FiskSchuyler Elizabeth Fisk is an American actress and singer-songwriter.-Biography:Fisk, whose first name is pronounced "SKY-ler," was born in Los Angeles, California, and moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, shortly thereafter...
has appeared in several film roles, and is now pursuing a career as a singer. Spacek and her family live on a horse ranch near
Charlottesville, VirginiaCharlottesville is an independent city geographically located in Albemarle County in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States, and named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the queen consort of King George III of the United Kingdom....
. She is also an ardent crusader for
women's rightsThe Suffrage movement is a series of campaigns on issues such as reproductive rights , domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, sexual harassment, and sexual violence. The goals of the movement vary from country to country, e.g...
.
Filmography
| Year |
Film |
Role |
Notes |
| 1970 |
Trash Trash is a 1970 American film directed and written by filmmaker Paul Morrissey.The movie stars Joe Dallesandro, female impersonator Holly Woodlawn and Jane Forth. Dallesandro had previously starred in several other Andy Warhol/Paul Morrissey films such as The Loves of Ondine, Lonesome Cowboys,...
|
Girl extra at bar |
uncredited |
| 1972 |
Prime CutPrime Cut is a 1972 American film produced by Joe Wizan and directed by Michael Ritchie, with a screenplay written by Robert Dillon. The movie stars Lee Marvin as a mob enforcer from Chicago sent to Kansas to collect a debt from a meatpacker boss played by Gene Hackman...
|
Poppy |
|
| 1973 |
The Girls of Huntington House |
Sara |
TV film |
| Badlands Badlands is a 1973 film written and directed by Terrence Malick, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. Warren Oates and Ramon Bieri are also featured...
|
Holly |
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer -Best British Director, Producer or Writer in the First Film:*2006 - Red Road - Andrea Arnold**Black Sun – Gary Tarn**Pierrepoint – Christine Langan**London to Brighton – Paul Andrew Williams...
|
| 1974 |
Ginger in the Morning Ginger in the Morning is a 1974 comedy film starring Fred Ward and Sissy Spacek. It was also the first American film appearance of a young Fred Ward.- Cast :...
|
Ginger |
TV film |
| The Migrants |
Wanda Trimpin |
|
| 1975 |
KatherineKatherine is a 1975 television movie starring Sissy Spacek, Art Carney and Henry Winkler. It was written and directed by Jeremy Kagan...
|
Katherine Alman |
TV film (also known as The Radical) |
| 1976 |
Carrie |
Carrie WhiteCarietta "Carrie" N. White is a fictional character created by Stephen King. She was the main focus of his first published novel entitled Carrie...
|
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress TheNational Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress is an annual award given by the National Society of Film Critics to honour the best leading actress of the year.-1960s:-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:...
Nominated — Academy Award for Best ActressPerformance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...
|
| Welcome to L.A. Welcome to L.A. is a 1976 film directed by Alan Rudolph and starring Keith Carradine.-Plot:The theme of romantic despair and shallowness is displayed utilizing a La Ronde-like circle of sexual adventures and failed affairs centered around songwriter Carroll Barber, played by Keith Carradine, which...
|
Linda Murray |
|
| 1977 |
3 Women |
Pinky Rose |
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress is an award given by the New York Film Critics Circle, honoring the finest achievements in filmmaking....
|
| 1978 |
Verna: U.S.O. Girl |
Verna Vane |
TV film |
| 1980 |
Coal Miner's DaughterCoal Miner's Daughter is an American 1980 biographical film which tells the story of country music performer Loretta Lynn. It stars Sissy Spacek in her Academy Award for Best Actress winning role, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo and Levon Helm, and was directed by Michael Apted.-Background:The...
|
Loretta LynnLoretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter; she was one of the leading country vocalists and songwriters during the 1960s and is revered as a country music cultural icon....
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Academy Award for Best Actress Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best ActressThe Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress is an award given by the Kansas City Film Critics Circle to honor the best achievements in acting.-1960s:-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:...
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best ActressThe Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress is one of the annual awards given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:...
National Board of Review Award for Best ActressThe National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Award for Best Actress is one of the annual film awards given by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.- 1940s :...
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best ActressTheNational Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress is an annual award given by the National Society of Film Critics to honour the best leading actress of the year.-1960s:-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:...
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best ActressThe New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress is one of the awards given by the New York Film Critics Circle to honor the finest achievements in filmmaking.-1930s:-1940s:-1950s:-1960s:-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:...
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading RoleBest Actress in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film.- Winners and nominees :...
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| Heart Beat |
Carolyn Cassady |
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| 1981 |
Raggedy Man Raggedy Man is a 1981 film starring Sam Shepard and Sissy Spacek. Itwas filmed in Lockhart, Texas.The story is about people in the small Texas town of Gregory during World War II.Plot...
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Nita Longley |
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama |
| 1982 |
Missing Missing is a 1982 film directed by Costa Gavras, starring Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea and Charles Cioffi. It is based on the true story of American journalist Charles Horman, who disappeared in the bloody aftermath of the US-backed Chilean coup of 1973 that deposed...
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Beth Horman |
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading RoleBest Actress in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film.- Winners and nominees :...
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama |
| 1983 |
The Man with Two Brains The Man with Two Brains is a 1983 American comedy film directed by Carl Reiner and starring Steve Martin and Kathleen Turner.Written by Martin and George Gipe, the film is a broad comedy, with Martin playing Dr...
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Anne Uumellmahaye |
voice (uncredited) |
| 1984 |
The River |
Mae Garvey |
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama |
| Terror in the Aisles Terror in the Aisles is a 1984 horror film documentary featuring clips from Friday the 13th I and II, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Halloween I and II, Jaws I and II, Alien, John Carpenter's The Thing, The Shining, etc. The film is hosted by Donald Pleasence and Nancy Allen...
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archival footage |
| 1985 |
Marie Marie is a 1985 film starring Sissy Spacek as the real-life Marie Ragghianti, former head of the Tennessee Board of Pardons and Paroles, who was removed from office in 1977 after refusing to release prisoners who had bribed aides to then-Governor Ray Blanton...
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Marie Ragghianti |
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| 1986 |
Violets Are Blue Violets Are Blue... is a 1986 romance movie from Columbia Pictures, starring Sissy Spacek and Kevin Kline.-Story:After fifteen years of traveling around the world, a famous photographer named Gussie returns to the Maryland coastal resort where she grew up...
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Augusta 'Gussie' Sawyer |
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| 'night, Mother 'night, Mother is a 1986 drama film written by Marsha Norman. The film, which stars Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft, is based on Norman's Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name.-Cast:*Sissy Spacek ... Jessie Cates*Anne Bancroft ... Thelma Cates...
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Jessie Cates |
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| Crimes of the Heart Crimes of the Heart is a play by Beth Henley.-Synopsis:At the core of the tragic comedy are the three Magrath sisters, Meg, Babe, and Lenny, who reunite at Old Granddaddy's home in Hazlehurst, Mississippi after Babe shoots her abusive husband. The trio was raised in a dysfunctional family with a...
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Rebeca 'Babe'/'Becky' Magrath Botrelle |
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best ActressThe Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress is an award given by the Kansas City Film Critics Circle to honor the best achievements in acting.-1960s:-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:...
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best ActressThe New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress is one of the awards given by the New York Film Critics Circle to honor the finest achievements in filmmaking.-1930s:-1940s:-1950s:-1960s:-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:...
Nominated — Academy Award for Best ActressPerformance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...
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| 1990 |
The Long Walk Home The Long Walk Home was a 1990 film released starring Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg.The film is set in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, during the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, and features Goldberg as Odessa Cotter, an African-American maid, employed by a well-to-do white woman, Miriam...
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Miriam Thompson |
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| 1991 |
Hard Promises |
Christine Ann Coalter |
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| JFK JFK is a 1991 American film directed by Oliver Stone. It examines the events leading to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and alleged subsequent cover-up, through the eyes of former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison...
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Liz Garrison |
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| 1992 |
A Private Matter A Private Matter is a 1992 film made for television drama based on the true 1963 story of Sherri Finkbine, a resident of Phoenix, Arizona in the first trimester of her fifth pregnancy. She was the popular hostess of the locally produced children's television show Romper Room.She was taking the...
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Sherri Finkbine |
TV film |
| 1994 |
A Place for Annie |
Susan Lansing |
TV film |
| Trading Mom aka "The Mommy Market" |
Mrs. Mommy Martin; Mama, Snappy French;
Mom, the Nature-Hiker; Natasha, the Circus Performer |
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| 1995 |
The Good Old Boys |
Spring Renfro |
Nominated — Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie |
| The Grass Harp |
Verena Talbo |
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Streets of LaredoStreets of Laredo is a novel by Larry McMurtry. Although it was published second, it is chronologically last in the Lonesome Dove series.-Plot introduction:...
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Lorena Parker |
TV mini-series |
| 1996 |
Beyond the Call Beyond the Call is a 2006 documentary film about three middle-aged men who are former soldiers and modern-day knights. They travel the world delivering life saving humanitarian aid directly into the hands of civilians and doctors in some of the most dangerous yet beautiful places on Earth, the...
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Pam O'Brien |
TV film |
| If These Walls Could Talk The women's experiences in each vignette are designed to demonstrate the popular views of society on the issue in each of the given decades. The film became a surprise success, and was HBO's highest rated movie ever...
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Barbara Barrows (segment "1974") |
TV film |
| 1997 |
Affliction |
Margie Fogg |
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| 1999 |
Blast from the Past Blast from the Past is a American romantic comedy-drama film starring Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Sissy Spacek, Christopher Walken, and Dave Foley.-Plot synopsis:...
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Helen Thomas Webber |
Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| The Straight Story The Straight Story is a 1999 film directed by David Lynch. It is based on the true story of Alvin Straight's journey across Iowa and Wisconsin on a lawnmower. The film was edited and produced by Mary Sweeney, Lynch's longtime partner and co-worker. She co-wrote the script with John E...
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Rose 'Rosie' Straight |
Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress The 6th Annual Chlotrudis Awards were presented April 8, 2000, by the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film. Honoring the best of the past year's independent, documentary and international film, the awards ceremony took place at the Berklee College of Music's David Friend Recital Hall...
Nominated — Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting ActressThe Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Supporting Actress is an award given by the Las Vegas Film Critics Society to honor the best actress of the year.-1990s:-2000s:...
Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture- 1990s :Best Supporting Actress – Drama*1996: Courtney Love - The People vs. Larry Flynt**Joan Allen - The Crucible**Stockard Channing - Moll Flanders**Miranda Richardson - The Evening Star**Kate Winslet - Hamlet...
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| 2000 |
Songs in Ordinary Time Songs in Ordinary Time is the 1995 novel by Mary McGarry Morris, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in June 1997.-Plot introduction:...
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Marie Fermoyle |
TV film |
| 2001 |
In the Bedroom In the Bedroom is a 2001 American film directed by Todd Field, and dedicated to Andre Dubus whose short story Killings is the source material from which the screenplay, by Field and Robert Festinger, is based...
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Ruth Fowler |
AFI Actress of the Year The American Film Institute Awards 2002 honored the best 10 Movies and 10 Television Programs of the year.-Movies:*About a Boy*About Schmidt*Adaptation.*Antwone Fisher...
Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best ActressThe Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress is one of the annual film awards given by the Boston Society of Film Critics.-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:...
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best ActressThe Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress is an award given by the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association to honor the best achievements in filmmaking.-Winners and nominees:*1993: Holly Hunter - The Piano*1994:...
Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best ActressThe Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress is an award given by the Florida Film Critics Circle to honor the finest female lead acting achievements in filmmaking.-1990s:-2000s:...
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead FemaleThe Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Female is given in recognition of achievements by actresses in leading roles in independent films.-1980s:*1985: Geraldine Page - The Trip to Bountiful**Rosanna Arquette - After Hours...
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best ActressThe Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress is one of the annual awards given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:...
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best ActressThe New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress is one of the awards given by the New York Film Critics Circle to honor the finest achievements in filmmaking.-1930s:-1940s:-1950s:-1960s:-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:...
Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture DramaThe Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama is one of the annual awards given by the International Press Academy.- 1990s :1996: Frances McDormand – Fargo as Marge Gunderson...
Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best ActressThe Southeastern Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress is one of the awards given by the Southeastern Film Critics Association to honor the finest female lead acting.-1990s:-2000s:...
Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best ActressThe Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress is an annual award given by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle.-Winners and nominees:...
Nominated — Academy Award for Best ActressPerformance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading RoleBest Actress in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film.- Winners and nominees :...
Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best ActressThe Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress is an annual award given by the Chicago Film Critics Association.-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:...
Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best ActressThe 8th Annual Chlotrudis Awards were presented April 6, 2002, by the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film. Honoring the best of the past year's independent, documentary and international film, the awards ceremony took place at the Berklee College of Music's David Friend Recital Hall...
Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best ActressThe Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress is an annual film award given by the Online Film Critics Society to honor the best lead actress of the year.Reese Witherspoon and Naomi Watts have each won this award twice.-1990s:-2000s:...
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture |
| Midwives |
Sibyl Danforth |
Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film -1990s:*1996: Helen Mirren - Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgment**Kirstie Alley - Suddenly**Lolita Davidovich - Harvest on Fire**Laura Dern - The Siege of Ruby Ridge**Jena Malone - Hidden in America...
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie |
| 2002 |
Last CallLast Call is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Henry Bromell about F. Scott Fitzgerald, based on the novel by Frances Kroll Ring. The film stars Jeremy Irons as Fitzgerald, Sissy Spacek as Zelda Fitzgerald, and Neve Campbell as Frances Kroll....
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Zelda Fitzgerald |
Nominated — Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie
Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film-1990s:*1996: Helen Mirren - Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgment**Kirstie Alley - Suddenly**Lolita Davidovich - Harvest on Fire**Laura Dern - The Siege of Ruby Ridge**Jena Malone - Hidden in America...
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Tuck EverlastingTuck Everlasting is a 2002 film based on the children's book of the same title by Natalie Babbitt published in 1975. This Disney version was directed by Jay Russell.-Differences between the movie and the book:-External links:*...
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Mae Tuck |
Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| 2004 |
A Home at the End of the WorldA Home at the End of the World is a 2004 drama film directed by Michael Mayer. The screenplay by Michael Cunningham was adapted from his 1990 novel of the same title.-Plot synopsis:...
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Alice Glover |
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| 2005 |
Nine Lives Nine Lives is a 2005 American drama film written and directed by Rodrigo García. The screenplay, an example of hyperlink cinema, relates nine short, loosely intertwined tales with nine different women at their cores. Their themes include parent-child relationships, fractured love, adultery,...
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Ruth |
Locarno International Film Festival Award for Best Actress Ensemble The Film Festival Locarno is an international film festival held annually in the city of Locarno, Switzerland since 1946. The main feature of the festival is the open-air screening space in Piazza Grande, with room for over 8,000 spectators. The top prize is the Golden Leopard awarded to the best...
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| The Ring Two The Ring Two is a 2005 American horror film, and a sequel to the 2002 film The Ring, which was a remake of the 1998 Japanese film of the same name...
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Evelyn |
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| North Country North Country is a 2005 American drama film directed by Niki Caro. The screenplay by Michael Seitzman was inspired by the 2002 book Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law by Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler, which chronicled the case of...
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Alice Aimes |
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| 2006 |
An American Haunting An American Haunting is a 2006 horror film written and directed by Courtney Solomon. It stars Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, Rachel Hurd-Wood, and James D'Arcy. The film was previewed at the AFI Film Festival on November 5, 2005 and was released in U.S. theaters on May 5, 2006. The film had an...
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Lucy Bell |
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| Summer Running: The Race to Cure Breast Cancer |
Mrs. Flora Good |
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| 2007 |
Gray Matters Gray Matters is a romantic comedy film directed by Sue Kramer, starring Heather Graham, Tom Cavanagh and Bridget Moynahan. It premiered on October 21 2006 at the Hamptons International Film Festival and had a United States limited theatrical release on February 23, 2007.-Plot:Gray lives a...
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Sydney |
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| Hot Rod Hot Rod is a 2007 American comedy film written by Pam Brady and directed by Akiva Schaffer; starring Andy Samberg, Sissy Spacek, Jorma Taccone, Will Arnett, Danny R. McBride, Ian McShane, Isla Fisher, and Bill Hader. It was originally written with Will Ferrell in mind . The film was released in...
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Marie Powell |
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| Pictures of Hollis Woods Pictures of Hollis Woods is a television movie that debuted on the CBS television network as a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie on December 2, 2007. The film is directed by Tony Bill, and is based on the Newbery Honor winning novel of the same name by Patricia Reilly Giff...
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Josie Cahill |
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film |
| 2008 |
Lake City Lake City is a 2008 film directed by Perry Moore and Hunter Hill and stars Sissy Spacek, Troy Garity, and Dave Matthews. It was filmed in Virginia was released in a single theater on November 21, 2008....
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Maggie |
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Four ChristmasesFour Christmases is a Christmas-themed romantic comedy film about a couple who go to see their divorced parents in one day...
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Paula (Brad's Mom) |
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| 2009 |
Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People is a four-part American documentary television series that premiered April 9, 2009, on PBS. The series explores the natural and human history of the Appalachian Mountains region.-Background:...
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Narrator |
TV mini-series |
| Get Low |
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Albums
| Year |
Album |
US Country |
Label |
| 1983 |
Hangin' Up My Heart |
17 |
Atlantic |
Singles
| Year |
Single |
Chart Positions |
Album |
| US Country Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...
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US The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
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CAN Country |
| 1980 |
"Coal Miner's Daughter "Coal Miner's Daughter" is an autobiographical 1969 country music song written and made famous by Loretta Lynn. Released in 1970, the song became Lynn's signature song, one of the genre's most widely-known songs, and provided the basis for both her autobiography and a movie on her life.-About the...
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Coal Miner's Daughter (Soundtrack) |
| "Back in Baby's Arms" |
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71 |
| 1983 |
"Lonely But Only for You" |
15 |
110 |
13 |
Hangin' Up My Heart |
| 1984 |
"If I Can Just Get Through the Night" |
57 |
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41 |
| "If You Could Only See Me Now" |
79 |
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