Sissy Spacek

Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (born December 25, 1949 in Quitman, Texas) is an Academy Award winning American actress and singer. Her cousin, Rip Torn, was already in the entertainment business, and through him, she was able to enroll in Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio and then the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York. Her first credited role was in the 1972 movie Prime Cut, in which she played a young woman sold into white slavery. The first role that brought her notice was the 1973 film Badlands, where she met art director Jack Fisk, whom she would later marry. Spacek is also an ardent crusader for women's lib.

Her breakout role was in Carrie, in 1976, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She eventually won the Oscar in 1980 for Coal Miner's Daughter. She was also nominated for a Grammy Award for her singing on that film's soundtrack album.

Academy awards and nominations

  • 2002 Nominated In the Bedroom
  • 1987 Nominated Crimes of the Heart
  • 1985 Nominated The River
  • 1983 Nominated Missing
  • 1981 Won Coal Miner's Daughter
  • 1977 Nominated Carrie

Filmography

  • Tuck Everlasting
  • Last Call
  • Midwives
  • In the Bedroom
  • Songs in Ordinary Time
  • The Straight Story
  • The Rage, Carrie 2
  • Blast from the Past
  • Affliction
  • If These Walls Could Talk
  • Beyond the Call
  • Streets of Laredo
  • The Grass Harp
  • The Good Old Boys
  • Trading Mom
  • A Place for Annie
  • A Private Matter
  • JFK
  • Hard Promises
  • The Long Walk Home
  • Crimes of the Heart
  • 'night, Mother
  • Violets Are Blue
  • Marie
  • The River
  • The Man with Two Brains
  • Missing
  • Raggedy Man
  • Heart Beat
  • Coal Miner's Daughter
  • Verna, USO Girl
  • Welcome to L.A.
  • 3 Women
  • Carrie
  • Katherine
  • The Migrants
  • Badlands
  • Ginger in the Morning
  • The Girls of Huntington House
  • Prime Cut
  • Trash
  • Phantom of the Paradise (set dresser)
  • Death Game (art director)

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She was also nominated for a Grammy Award for her singing on that film's soundtrack album. About the movie Castle of Blood (http://www.horror-wood.com/cob.htm). She eventually won the Oscar in 1980 for Coal Miner's Daughter. Steele's entry on the Swingin' Chicks of the '60s Web site (http://www.swinginchicks.com/barbara_steele.htm). Her breakout role was in Carrie, in 1976, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. The Unofficial Barbara Steele Film Site (http://home.earthlink.net/~gershom/steele.html). Spacek is also an ardent crusader for women's lib. 1978 Piranha.

The first role that brought her notice was the 1973 film Badlands, where she met art director Jack Fisk, whom she would later marry. 1975 Shivers. Her first credited role was in the 1972 movie Prime Cut, in which she played a young woman sold into white slavery. 1974 Caged Heat. Her cousin, Rip Torn, was already in the entertainment business, and through him, she was able to enroll in Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio and then the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York. 1964 I Lunghi capelli della morte (The Long Hair of Death). Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (born December 25, 1949 in Quitman, Texas) is an Academy Award winning American actress and singer. 1964 Danza macabra (Castle of Blood).

Death Game (art director). 1963 Lo Spettro (The Ghost). Phantom of the Paradise (set dresser). 1963 8½. Trash. Hichock). Prime Cut. Hichcock (The Horrible Dr.

The Girls of Huntington House. 1962 L'Orribile segreto del Dr. Ginger in the Morning. 1961 Pit and the Pendulum. Badlands. 1960 La Maschera del demonio (Black Sunday). The Migrants. Steele starred in a string of gothic horror classics including: The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962), The Ghost (1963) (Dir.: Riccardo Freda).

Katherine. It's now hailed as a masterpiece of the Italian gothic horror film. Carrie. Her break through came in Italian director Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960). 3 Women. She's best known as the scream queen of Italian gothic horror movies of the sixties. Welcome to L.A.. British actress.

Verna, USO Girl. Barbara Steele (29 December 1937-). Coal Miner's Daughter. Heart Beat. Raggedy Man.

Missing. The Man with Two Brains. The River. Marie.

Violets Are Blue. 'night, Mother. Crimes of the Heart. The Long Walk Home.

Hard Promises. JFK. A Private Matter. A Place for Annie.

Trading Mom. The Good Old Boys. The Grass Harp. Streets of Laredo.

Beyond the Call. If These Walls Could Talk. Affliction. Blast from the Past.

The Rage, Carrie 2. The Straight Story. Songs in Ordinary Time. In the Bedroom.

Midwives. Last Call. Tuck Everlasting. 1977 Nominated Carrie.

1981 Won Coal Miner's Daughter. 1983 Nominated Missing. 1985 Nominated The River. 1987 Nominated Crimes of the Heart.

2002 Nominated In the Bedroom.