Sissy Spacek

Sissy Spacek

Actor (b. 1949)
24
Movies
73.4%
Avg ThumbScore
Drama
Top Genre

Audiences rate Sissy Spacek’s films higher than 66% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): The Long Walk Home (Roku Channel, The CW, Fandango at Home, Pluto TV, Plex, Prime Video (free), Xumo Play, Tubi, Fawesome) · Badlands (Plex, Tubi) · An American Haunting (YouTube, Philo, Fandango at Home, Plex, Prime Video (free), Xumo Play, Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome) · Hot Rod (Kanopy, Hoopla) · Get Low (Tubi) · Affliction (Roku Channel, Fandango at Home, Shout! TV, Plex, Prime Video (free), Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome) and 1 more.

Frequent Collaborators

Amy Irving (2)Piper Laurie (1)William Katt (1)John Travolta (1)Nancy Allen (1)
i How is this score calculated?

The ThumbScore for Sissy Spacek (73.4%) is the average audience approval rating across 24 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Sissy's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

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).

Born 1949-12-25 in Quitman, Texas, USA.

On ThumbScore, Sissy Spacek appears in 24 films with an average audience score of 73.4%, most frequently in the Drama genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Sissy Spacek movie, ranked by audience score

The Straight Story
The Straight Story
1999
👍 89%
JFK
JFK
1991
👍 87%
Carrie
Carrie
1976
👍 86%
Coal Miner's Daughter
Coal Miner's Daughter
1980
👍 81%
The Old Man & the Gun
The Old Man & the Gun
2018
👍 78%
3 Women
3 Women
1977
👍 78%
The Long Walk Home
The Long Walk Home
1990
👍 78%
Badlands
Badlands
1974
👍 77%
An American Haunting
An American Haunting
2005
👍 77%
Missing
Missing
1982
👍 76%
Prime Cut
Prime Cut
1972
👍 75%
Hot Rod
Hot Rod
2007
👍 72%
The River
The River
1984
👍 72%
Blast from the Past
Blast from the Past
1999
👍 71%
The Ring Two
The Ring Two
2005
👍 70%
In the Bedroom
In the Bedroom
2001
👍 70%
Get Low
Get Low
2010
👍 70%
North Country
North Country
2005
👍 69%
Affliction
Affliction
1998
👍 68%
A Home at the End of the World
A Home at the End of the World
2004
👍 67%
Deadfall
Deadfall
2012
👍 66%
Tuck Everlasting
Tuck Everlasting
2002
👍 66%
Four Christmases
Four Christmases
2008
👍 65%
Die My Love
Die My Love
2025
👍 54%