Sally Field

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Sally Field Talks '80 for Brady' Fun, SAG Tribute and Thriller Goals (Variety)

Receiving the SAG Life Achievement Award on Feb. 26 has a special meaning to Sally Field. “It's my tribe,” she says of her fellow actors.

I would love to think that this would be a movie where they actually go to the movies again. It totally changed it, because it was finally getting to a place where I could learn the craft that I so wanted to learn. By the time I performed my first scene for Lee, I had learned early on in my life how to disassociate from that kind of adrenaline of nerves into focus. I had a very hard time — and had to go to night and summer school to take the classes that I didn’t go to. But I had a love for something, and that was drama. “It’s the group I most wanted to be respected by and to be included in, and that means a lot to me.” And while she says she has yet to write her speech, that’s understandable — the actor has been busy with promotion for her latest film, “80 for Brady,” now in theaters.

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Sally Field's Life in Photos (PEOPLE.com)

A look at Sally Field's award-winning career and roles in Norma Rae, ER, Brothers & Sisters and beyond as she's honored at the 2023 SAG Awards.

She can just project and have charisma right on the spot, and you can tell why she's been on top of her game throughout her whole entire life." The book, which she described as "incredibly raw, intimate and personal," explores the highs and lows of her life and career. She opens up about the instances of sexual abuse she'd suffered, her "complicated" relationship with former beau Burt Reynolds and the trials of growing up a woman in the 1950s. Field continued her return to television in 2006 with the premiere of Brothers & Sisters on ABC. At the end of her acceptance speech, Field Her performance won her an Emmy in 2001, and she continued on the series as a recurring character until 2006. [didn't have much contact](https://people.com/movies/sally-field-didnt-speak-burt-reynolds-30-years/) with her former boyfriend in the 30 years leading up to his death: "I would feel him kind of reach out to me via the press. She also won the Cannes award, accolades from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and National Society of Film Critics and her first Golden Globe. In tandem with her early experiences on a set and working with a crew, she was also experiencing the beginning of motherhood. Field and Craig welcomed their firstborn, Peter, in 1969, while she was working on The Flying Nun. Speaking at the 2015 Simmons Leadership Conference in Boston, the actress recalled her agent saying she wasn't "good enough" or "pretty enough" to be in films. At the unveiling of a new sign bearing her name, the actress praised her school's drama department, noting that it "quite simply saved my life" in that she could "most truly and absolutely" be herself while involved.

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