{"id":65984,"date":"2024-01-23T11:46:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T04:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alternatech.net\/?p=65984"},"modified":"2024-01-23T11:46:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T04:46:43","slug":"sally-field-recently-turned-76-a-beloved-actress-with-an-unforgettable-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/sally-field-recently-turned-76-a-beloved-actress-with-an-unforgettable-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Sally Field Recently Turned 76: A Beloved Actress with an Unforgettable Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Sally Field Recently Turned 76: A Beloved Actress with an Unforgettable Career\n</h2><p>Sally Field, an actress who has won Academy, Emmy, and Golden Globe Awards, is well-known for her parts in the films \u201cForrest Gump,\u201d \u201cBrothers and Sisters,\u201d \u201cLincoln,\u201d and \u201cSteel Magnolias.\u201d\n</p><p><img fetchpriority='\"high\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-65985 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/alternatech.net%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/01%5C/3-1.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"482\"' height='\"470\"'>\n</p><p>The 76-year-old actress launched her career in 1965 with the lead part in \u201cGidget.\u201d She has since made several TV appearances, motion pictures, and Broadway performances.\n</p><p>Field has also been open about her struggles in her personal life. She discusses her stepfather\u2019s sexual abuse of her as well as her battles with depression, self-doubt, and loneliness in her 2018 memoir \u201cIn Pieces.\u201d\n</p><p>On November 6, 1946, Sally Field was born in Pasadena, California. Her mother was the actress Margaret Field (n\u00e9e Morlan), and her father was a salesman named Richard Dryden Field.\n</p><p><img decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-65986 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/alternatech.net%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/01%5C/4-1.png%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"540\"' height='\"725\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/4-1.png' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>Her mother married actor and stuntman Jock Mahoney following her parent\u2019s divorce. Richard Field, Sally\u2019s brother, and Princess O\u2019Mahoney, her half-sister, are both living.\n</p><p>Sally Field married Steven Craig in 1968, and they had two sons, Peter and Eli. They divorced in 1975, and she married Alan Greisman in 1984.\n</p><p>They had one son together, Samuel, before divorcing in 1994. From 1976 to 1980, she dated Burt Reynolds, a difficult relationship she discusses in her memoir.\n</p><p>She recounts his controlling behavior and how he convinced Field not to attend the Emmy ceremony where she won for \u201cSybil.\u201d\n</p><p>Reynolds actually died just before her book\u2019s release, and in his own memoir, he called their failed relationship \u201cthe biggest regret of my life\u201d in his 2015 memoir \u201cBut Enough About Me.\u201d\n</p><p><img decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-65987 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/alternatech.net%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/01%5C/5-1.png%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"538\"' height='\"747\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/5-1.png' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>Meanwhile, Fields said they hadn\u2019t spoken for 30 years before his passing. \u201cHe was not someone I could be around,\u201d she explained.\n</p><p>\u201cHe was just not good for me in any way. And he had somehow invented in his rethinking of everything that I was more important to him than he had thought, but I wasn\u2019t. He just wanted to have the thing he didn\u2019t have. I just didn\u2019t want to deal with that.\u201d\n</p><p>These days, Sally Field keeps her Oscars and Emmys in a TV room where she plays video games with her grandkids. So far, Field shows no signs of retiring with her film \u201cSpoiler Alert\u201d releasing next week, as well as \u201c80 for Brady\u201d coming in 2023.\n</p><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-65988 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/alternatech.net%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/01%5C/6-1.png%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"538\"' height='\"728\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/6-1.png' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>\u201cAs an actor, she dared this town to typecast her, and then simply broke through every dogmatic barrier to find her own way \u2014 not to stardom, which I imagine she\u2019d decry, but to great roles in great films and television,\u201d said Steven Spielberg, her friend and \u201cLincoln\u201d director.\n</p><p>\u201cThrough her consistently good taste and feisty persistence, she has survived our ever-changing culture, stood the test of time and earned this singular place in history.\u201d\n</p><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-65989 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/alternatech.net%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/01%5C/7-1.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"600\"' height='\"414\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/7-1.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>Over the course of her six-decade career, Sally Field has won over the hearts of viewers everywhere. She has made a meaningful life for herself and her family, accepted the beauty of aging naturally, and discovered joy in being a grandmother.\n</p><p>Her story is an inspiration to all of us, a gentle reminder to greet each stage of life with appreciation and grace.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>Sally Field Recently Turned 76: A Beloved Actress with an Unforgettable Career Sally Field, an actress who has won Academy, Emmy, and Golden Globe Awards, is well-known for her parts in the films \u201cForrest Gump,\u201d \u201cBrothers and Sisters,\u201d \u201cLincoln,\u201d and \u201cSteel Magnolias.\u201d The 76-year-old actress launched her career in 1965 with the lead part in\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":65985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Sally Field, an actress who has won Academy, Emmy, and Golden Globe Awards, is well-known for her parts in the films \u201cForrest Gump,\u201d \u201cBrothers and Sisters,\u201d \u201cLincoln,\u201d and \u201cSteel Magnolias.\u201d","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[693],"class_list":{"0":"post-65984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3-1-e1705985137342.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p>