Sissy Spacek

ActorCrewArtSound Dec 25 (age 76) Quitman, Texas, USA 1951–2026 (75 year career)

6.4 avg rating

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 r…

Known For

Film

The Help

Missus Walters

Film

Carrie

Film

JFK

Liz Garrison

Film

The Straight Story

Rose

Film

Badlands

Holly Sargis

Film

Phantom of the Paradise

Set Dresser

Film

Blast from the Past

Helen

Film

North Country

Alice Aimes

Filmography

Acting (95)

Movies (72)

Love Letter to Texas

2026 Upcoming

as Narrator

Apr 7

Die My Love

2025

as Pam

6.1

Henry Fonda for President

2025

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

Sam & Kate

2022

as Tina

6.3

Without Getting Killed or Caught

2021

as Narrator / Voice of Susanna Clark (voice)

The Old Man & the Gun

2018

as Jewel

6.4

Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl

2016

as Self / Loretta Lynn

7.8

HyperNormalisation

2016

as Self (archive footage)

7.5

River of Gold

2016

as Narrator

Making Badlands

as Self

Deadfall

as June

The Help

as Missus Walters

Get Low

as Mattie Darrow

Four Christmases

as Paula

Lake City

as Maggie

Hot Rod

as Marie Powell

Gray Matters

as Dr. Sydney

Pictures of Hollis Woods

as Josie Cahill

The Ring Two

as Evelyn

North Country

as Alice Aimes

An American Haunting

as Lucy Bell

Nine Lives

as Ruth

A Home at the End of the World

as Alice Glover

Absence of Malick

as Self

A Decade Under the Influence

2003

as Self

7.9

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

as Self

Tuck Everlasting

as Mae Tuck

Last Call

as Zelda Fitzgerald

In the Bedroom

as Ruth Fowler

Midwives

as Sibyl Danforth

Visualizing 'Carrie'

as Self (archive footage)

5.7

Acting 'Carrie'

2001

as Self

7.0

Songs In Ordinary Time

as Marie Fermoyle

Blast from the Past

as Helen

The Straight Story

as Rose

The Rage: Carrie 2

as Carrie White (archive footage) (uncredited)

Affliction

as Margie Fogg

The Grass Harp

as Verena Talbo

Beyond the Call

as Pam O'Brien

If These Walls Could Talk

as Barbara Barrows

The Good Old Boys

as Spring Renfro

A Place for Annie

as Susan Lansing

Trading Mom

as Mommy / Mama / Mom / Natasha

6.0

Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy

1993

as Self

5.6

Fonda on Fonda

1992

as Self - The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (archive footage)

6.0

Hard Promises

1992

as Christine Ann Coalter

A Private Matter

as Sherri Finkbine

JFK

as Liz Garrison

Voices That Care

as Self - Choir Member

8.0

The Talking Eggs

1991

as Narrator (voice)

The Long Walk Home

as Miriam Thompson

'night, Mother

as Jessie Cates

Violets are Blue

as Augusta "Gussie" Sawyer

Crimes of the Heart

as Babe Magrath

Marie: A True Story

as Marie Ragghianti

The River

as Mae Garvey

The Man with Two Brains

1983

as Anne Uumellmahaye (uncredited) (voice)

Missing

as Beth Horman

Raggedy Man

as Nita

Coal Miner's Daughter

as Loretta Lynn

Heart Beat

as Carolyn Cassady

Verna: USO Girl

as Verna Vane

3 Women

1977

as Mildred "Pinky" Rose

7.1

Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary

as Self

Carrie

as Carrie

Welcome to L.A.

as Linda Murray

Katherine

as Katherine Alman

Badlands

as Holly Sargis

Ginger in the Morning

as Ginger Brown

The Migrants

as Wanda Trimpin

The Girls of Huntington House

as Sara

Prime Cut

as Poppy

Television (23)

Dying for Sex

as Gail

Night Sky

as Irene York

Castle Rock

as Ruth Deaver

Homecoming

as Ellen Bergman

GQ Presents: Iconic Characters

as Self

Bloodline

as Sally Rayburn

Off Camera with Sam Jones

as Self

Big Love

as Marilyn Densham

The View

as Self

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

as Self - Guest

Streets of Laredo

as Lorena

Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain

1995

as Martha Jefferson Randolph (voice)

Inside the Actors Studio

1994

as Self

7.5

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories

1992

as Narrator (voice)

10.0

Seitenblicke

1987

as self

Saturday Night Live

1975

as Self - Host

7.0

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

as Self

The Waltons

The Rookies

Great Performances

as Verna Vane

The Merv Griffin Show

as Self

The Oscars

as Self

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Susan Lansing

8.6

Crew (4)

Movies (4)

Eye of God

Thanks

Death Game

Set Dresser

Phantom of the Paradise

1974

Set Dresser

7.5

Ginger in the Morning

1974

Songs

4.4