Biography of Sally Field:

Sally Field is a two-time Academy Award-winner for her performances in Robert Benton's Places in the Heart (also capturing a Golden Globe) and Martin Ritt's Norma Rae. For her title role in the latter, Field earned a mantle-full of acting honors, including the New York Film Critics prize, the National Board of Review Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Award, the National Society of Film Critics honor, Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Globe from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Field got her start on television, as the boy-struck, barefooted surfer girl in the mid-1960s surf culture sitcom series Gidget. Sally Field then went on to star in her best known television role, as Sister Bertrille in The Flying Nun.

In an interview on the Flying Nun DVD, Sally Field said that Sally Field would have preferred to continue playing Gidget.