Sissy Spacek
Movies
- 3 Women (1977)
- 'night, Mother (1986)
- A Home at the End of the World (2004)
- A Place for Annie
- A Private Matter (1992)
- Affliction (1997)
- An American Haunting (2006)
- Badlands (1973)
- Blast From the Past (1999)
- Carrie (1976)
- Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
- Crimes of the Heart (1986)
- Four Christmases (2008)
- Get Low (2009)
- Ginger in the Morning (1974)
- Gray Matters (2007)
- Hard Promises (1992)
- Hot Rod (2007)
- If These Walls Could Talk (1996)
- In the Bedroom (2001)
- JFK (1991)
- Katherine (1975)
- Lake City (2008)
- Last Call
- Marie (1985)
- Midwives
- Missing (1982)
- Nine Lives (2005)
- North Country (2005)
- Pictures of Hollis Woods (2007)
- Prime Cut (1972)
- Raggedy Man (1981)
- Terror in the Aisles (1984)
- The Grass Harp (1995)
- The Long Walk Home (1989)
- The Man with Two Brains (1983)
- The Ring Two (2005)
- The River (1984)
- The Straight Story (1999)
- Tuck Everlasting (2002)
- Verna: U.S.O. Girl (1978)
- Violets Are Blue (1986)
- Welcome to L.A. (1976)
Sissy Spacek (born Mary Elizabeth Spacek on December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer. She is known for her role as Carrie White in Brian de Palma's 1976 horror film Carrie, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for best actress. In 1980, she won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as country star Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter. She has been nominated a total of six times. Spacek is known mainly as a dramatic actress, but also has made comedies. The films that Spacek has starred in have earned more than $700 million world wide. Spacek was born on December 25, 1949, in Quitman, Texas, the daughter of Virginia Frances (née Spilman) and Edwin Arnold Spacek, Sr., a county agricultural agent. Her paternal grandparents, Mary Červenka and Arnold A. Špaček (who served as Mayor of Granger, Texas in Williamson County), were of Moravian/Czech/Bohemian descent. Spacek's mother was from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Spacek was given the nickname Sissy by her older brothers. She was greatly affected by the death of her 18-year old brother, Robbie, in 1967. Spacek moved to New York City hoping to become a singer. There she lived with her cousin, actor Rip Torn, and
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