Sissy Spacek
Gender: Female
Born: 25th December 1949 (currently 62 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Rabbit Ears Productions, Big Love, The Waltons, If These Walls Could Talk
Movies: 3 Women, Affliction, An American Haunting, Badlands, Blast From the Past, Carrie, Coal Miner's Daughter, In the Bedroom, Missing, North Country, The Ring Two, The Straight Story, Welcome to L.A., JFK, Verna: U.S.O. Girl, Tuck Everlasting, If These Walls Could Talk, Lake City, Ginger in the Morning, Prime Cut, 'night, Mother, Gray Matters, Crimes of the Heart, Katherine, Last Call, A Private Matter, Hot Rod, The Long Walk Home, The River, Raggedy Man, Pictures of Hollis Woods, Violets Are Blue, Nine Lives, The Grass Harp, Four Christmases, A Home at the End of the World, Marie, Terror in the Aisles, Get Low, Midwives, A Place for Annie, The Man with Two Brains, Songs in Ordinary Time, Heart Beat, Hard Promises, The Help, The Girls of Huntington House, Blackbird, New Video Works, , Gimme Shelter
Sissy Spacek (born Mary Elizabeth Spacek; December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer. She came to international prominence for her role as Carrie White in Brian De Palma's 1976 horror film Carrie (based on the first novel by Stephen King) for which she earned her first Academy Award nomination. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as country star Loretta Lynn in the 1980 film Coal Miner's Daughter. She has been nominated for an Oscar a total of six times, and is also known for her role as Holly Sargis in Terrence Malick's 1973 film Badlands.
Spacek is mainly a dramatic actress, but also has made comedies. The films that Spacek has starred in have earned more than $1 billion worldwide.
Spacek was born on Christmas Day, 1949, in Quitman, Texas. She is the daughter of Virginia Frances (née Spilman) and Edwin Arnold Spacek, Sr., a county agricultural agent. Spacek's paternal grandparents, Mary Červenka and Arnold A. Špaček (who served as Mayor of Granger, Texas in Williamson County), were of Czech (Moravian) and German ancestry. Her mother, of English and Irish descent, was from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
Spacek was greatly affected by the death of her
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