Sissy Spacek

Personal Info

Birthday

December 25, 1949

(75 years old)

Place of Birth

Quitman, Texas, USA

Also Known As

시시 스페이섹

سیسی اسپیسک

Sissy Spacek

Biography

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.

Known For

Great Performances

Big Love

The Help

Dying for Sex

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories

Bloodline

Homecoming

Castle Rock

Filmography

2025
Die, My Love
as Pam
2022
Sam & Kate
as Tina
2021
Without Getting Killed or Caught
as Narrator / Voice of Susanna Clark (voice)
2018
The Old Man & the Gun
as Jewel
2016
HyperNormalisation
as Self (archive footage)
River of Gold
as Narrator
Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl
as Self / Loretta Lynn
2014
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
2013
Making Badlands
as Self
2012
Deadfall
as June
2011
The Help
as Missus Walters
2010
Get Low
as Mattie Darrow
2008
Four Christmases
as Paula
Lake City
as Maggie
2007
Pictures of Hollis Woods
as Josie Cahill
Hot Rod
as Marie Powell
Gray Matters
as Dr. Sydney
2005
Nine Lives
as Ruth
An American Haunting
as Lucy Bell
The Ring Two
as Evelyn
North Country
as Alice Aimes
2004
A Home at the End of the World
as Alice Glover
2003
Absence of Malick
as Self
A Decade Under the Influence
as Self
2002
Tuck Everlasting
as Mae Tuck
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
as Self
Last Call
as Zelda Fitzgerald
2001
In the Bedroom
as Ruth Fowler
Acting 'Carrie'
as Self
Visualizing 'Carrie'
as Self (archive footage)
Midwives
as Sibyl Danforth
2000
Songs In Ordinary Time
as Marie Fermoyle
1999
The Straight Story
as Rose
The Rage: Carrie 2
as Carrie White (archive footage) (uncredited)
Blast from the Past
as Helen
1997
Affliction
as Margie Fogg
1996
The Grass Harp
as Verena Talbo
If These Walls Could Talk
as Barbara Barrows
Beyond the Call
as Pam O'Brien
1995
The Good Old Boys
as Spring Renfro
1994
A Place for Annie
as Susan Lansing
Trading Mom
as Mommy / Mama / Mom / Natasha
1993
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
as Self
1992
A Private Matter
as Sherri Finkbine
Hard Promises
as Christine Ann Coalter
Fonda on Fonda
as Self - The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (archive footage)
1991
JFK
as Liz Garrison
The Talking Eggs
as Narrator (voice)
Voices That Care
as Self - Choir Member
1990
The Long Walk Home
as Miriam Thompson
1986
Crimes of the Heart
as Babe Magrath
'night, Mother
as Jessie Cates
Violets are Blue
as Augusta "Gussie" Sawyer
1985
Marie: A True Story
as Marie Ragghianti
1984
The River
as Mae Garvey
1983
The Man with Two Brains
as Anne Uumellmahaye (uncredited) (voice)
1982
Missing
as Beth Horman
1981
Raggedy Man
as Nita
1980
Heart Beat
as Carolyn Cassady
Coal Miner's Daughter
as Loretta Lynn
1978
Verna: USO Girl
as Verna Vane
1977
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
as Self
3 Women
as Mildred "Pinky" Rose
1976
Welcome to L.A.
as Linda Murray
Carrie
as Carrie
1975
Katherine
as Katherine Alman
1974
Ginger in the Morning
as Ginger Brown
The Migrants
as Wanda Trimpin
Badlands
as Holly Sargis
1973
The Girls of Huntington House
as Sara
1972
Prime Cut
as Poppy