Sissy Spacek

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).

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.

The Help

8.2

Carrie

7.3

The Ring Two

5.7

JFK

7.6

The Straight Story

7.7

The Old Man & the Gun

6.4

Badlands

7.5

Four Christmases

5.8

Blast from the Past

6.8

Hot Rod

6.4

Deadfall

6.0

North Country

7.2

Castle Rock

7.2

An American Haunting

5.6

Tuck Everlasting

6.6

Saturday Night Live

6.9

The Man with Two Brains

6.2

The Rage: Carrie 2

5.6

Missing

7.3

In the Bedroom

6.9

Bloodline

7.1

Homecoming

7.0

Get Low

6.7

3 Women

7.2

Affliction

6.3

Coal Miner's Daughter

7.3

Night Sky

6.9

A Home at the End of the World

6.5

The Long Walk Home

7.6

HyperNormalisation

7.4

Big Love

6.9

The River

6.3

Gray Matters

5.8

Prime Cut

6.4

The View

4.5

The Waltons

7.1

Nine Lives

6.1

If These Walls Could Talk

6.6

The Oscars

6.9

Crimes of the Heart

6.1

And the Oscar Goes To...

7.0

Inside the Actors Studio

7.4

Sam & Kate

6.5

Trading Mom

6.0

A Decade Under the Influence

8.0

'night, Mother

7.4

Raggedy Man

5.3

The Grass Harp

5.9

Streets of Laredo

6.2

Marie: A True Story

5.7

A Place for Annie

6.0

The Rookies

6.8

Violets are Blue

4.9

Pictures of Hollis Woods

6.7

Welcome to L.A.

5.2

Great Performances

5.4

Heart Beat

5.6

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

3.5

Lake City

5.5

The Good Old Boys

6.7

Hard Promises

5.2

Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy

5.6

Katherine

5.5

Midwives

7.0

Last Call

5.7

The Migrants

5.7

Arena

6.7

Hallmark Hall of Fame

8.7

Songs In Ordinary Time

3.8

Beyond the Call

6.0

A Private Matter

4.8

Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl

8.0

Off Camera with Sam Jones

4.0

Acting 'Carrie'

7.0

Visualizing 'Carrie'

5.7

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

6.7

Voices That Care

8.0

Ginger in the Morning

6.0

GQ Presents: Iconic Characters

7.5

The Girls of Huntington House

6.0

Absence of Malick

7.0

Making Badlands

8.0

Fonda on Fonda

6.0

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories

10.0

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

6.0

Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary

0.0

Verna: USO Girl

0.0

Die, My Love

0.0

Without Getting Killed or Caught

0.0

River of Gold

0.0

The Talking Eggs

0.0

Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People

0.0

Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain

0.0

Seitenblicke

0.0

Dying for Sex

0.0