1966 Deb Star.
As of 2008, she is only one of six actors who have a 2-0 winning record when nominated for an acting Oscar. The others are Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937); Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind (1939) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951); Helen Hayes for The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) and Airport (1970); Kevin Spacey for The Usual Suspects (1995) and American Beauty (1999); and Hilary Swank for Boys Don't Cry (1999) and Million Dollar Baby (2004).
Auditioned for the role of Elaine Robinson in The Graduate (1967).
Born to Richard Dryden Field, a US Army Captain, and his wife Margaret Field, a contract player with Paramount Pictures starring in B movies. The couple divorced in 1950.
Both Sally and her mother, Margaret Field, have osteoporosis.
Daughter of actress Margaret Field. Ex-stepdaughter of actor Jock Mahoney.
Favorite movie is Smokey and the Bandit (1977).
Good friends with Goldie Hawn and a longtime friend of Pat Mitchell.
Graduate of Birmingham High School, Van Nuys, California, Class of 1964 with Michael Ovitz, who later became her agent. Field's class voted her "Class Clown". Another fellow student was Cindy Williams.
Half-sister of Princess O'Mahoney.
Has an older brother, Richard Dryden Field, a Physicist.
Has three films on the American Film Institute's 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time. They are: Places in the Heart (1984) at #95, Forrest Gump (1994) at #37, and Norma Rae (1979) at #16.
Has two sons from her first marriage: novelist Peter Craig (born November 10, 1969) and actor/director Eli Craig (born May 25, 1972) and one son, Samuel Greisman (born December 2, 1987), from her second marriage.
Her mother, Margaret Field, died on November 6, 2011, the day of Sally's 65th birthday.
Her Oscar-winning performance as Norma Rae Webster in Norma Rae (1979) was ranked #15 on the American Film Institute's Heroes list in their compilation of the 100 years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villians.
Her performance as Norma Rae Webster in Norma Rae (1979) is ranked #73 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
In Punchline (1988), she plays Tom Hanks' love interest. In Forrest Gump (1994), they play mother and son.
In 1988, she survived the crash of her private airplane with no injuries. The plane lost power on take-off and skidded into some parked airplanes on the tarmac.
In 1998, became a grandmother of Isabel Craig; in 2001, Sophie Craig; and in 2006, Noah Craig.
Is an alumna of the Lee Strasberg Institute as are Harvey Keitel, Frank Miranda, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.