Sally Field

Sally Field

Actor (b. 1946)
i How is this score calculated?

The ThumbScore for Sally Field (74.9%) is the average audience approval rating across 27 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Sally's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

27
Movies
74.9%
Avg ThumbScore
Comedy
Top Genre

Audiences rate Sally Field’s films higher than 76% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): Forrest Gump (YouTube, Kanopy, Tubi) · Smokey and the Bandit (YouTube) · Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (Kanopy) · Places in the Heart (YouTube, Tubi) · Hooper (Plex, Tubi, Hoopla) · Not Without My Daughter (Tubi, Hoopla) and 4 more.

Frequent Collaborators

Andrew Garfield (2)Emma Stone (2)Campbell Scott (2)Embeth Davidtz (2)Marc Webb (2)

Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American actress. She has received many awards and nominations, including two Academy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and nominations for a Tony Award and for two British Academy Film Awards. Field began her career on television, starring in the comedies Gidget (1965–1966), The Flying Nun (1967–1970), and The Girl with Something Extra (1973–1974). In 1967, she was also in the western The Way West. In 1976, she attracted critical acclaim for her performance in the television film Sybil, for which she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.

Her film debut was as an extra in Moon Pilot (1962). Her film career escalated during the 1970s with starring roles in films including Stay Hungry (1976), Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Heroes (1977), The End (1978), and Hooper (1978). During the 1980s she won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice for Norma Rae (1979) and Places in the Heart (1984), and she appeared in Smokey and the Bandit II (1980), Absence of Malice (1981), Kiss Me Goodbye (1982), Murphy's Romance (1985), Steel Magnolias (1989), Soapdish (1991), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), and Forrest Gump (1994). In the 2000s, Field returned to television with a recurring role on the NBC medical drama ER, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2001 and the following year made her stage debut with Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?.

Born 1946-11-06 in Pasadena, California, USA.

On ThumbScore, Sally Field appears in 27 films with an average audience score of 74.9%, most frequently in the Comedy genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Sally Field movie, ranked by audience score

Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump
1994
👍 94%
Mrs. Doubtfire
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
👍 87%
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
1993
👍 83%
Where the Heart Is
Where the Heart Is
2000
👍 83%
Smokey and the Bandit
Smokey and the Bandit
1977
👍 82%
Norma Rae
Norma Rae
1979
👍 82%
Lincoln
Lincoln
2012
👍 81%
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003
👍 81%
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Amazing Spider-Man
2012
👍 79%
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014
👍 79%
Places in the Heart
Places in the Heart
1984
👍 78%
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Remarkably Bright Creatures
2026
👍 78%
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
2008
👍 77%
Steel Magnolias
Steel Magnolias
1989
👍 76%
Hooper
Hooper
1978
👍 75%
Not Without My Daughter
Not Without My Daughter
1991
👍 74%
Absence of Malice
Absence of Malice
1981
👍 74%
Eye for an Eye
Eye for an Eye
1996
👍 73%
Hello, My Name Is Doris
Hello, My Name Is Doris
2015
👍 72%
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
1996
👍 71%
Smokey and the Bandit II
Smokey and the Bandit II
1980
👍 71%
Soapdish
Soapdish
1991
👍 71%
Punchline
Punchline
1988
👍 65%
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
1979
👍 62%
Little Evil
Little Evil
2017
👍 61%
Say It Isn't So
Say It Isn't So
2001
👍 59%
80 for Brady
80 for Brady
2023
👍 54%