Sissy Spacek's Main TV Roles [no roles found]

Main Movie Roles 2010 - Get Low 2008 - Lake City 2008 - Four Christmases 2007 - Hot Rod 2005 - Nine Lives 2005 - The Ring Two 2005 - North Country 2004 - A Home at the End of the World 2003 - A Decade Under the Influence 2002 - Tuck Everlasting 2001 - In the Bedroom 1999 - Blast from the Past 1999 - The Straight Story 1999 - The Rage: Carrie 2 1997 - Affliction 1994 - Trading Mom 1991 - JFK 1986 - 'night, Mother 1986 - Crimes of the Heart 1984 - The River 1984 - Terror in the Aisles 1983 - The Man with Two Brains 1982 - Missing 1980 - Coal Miner's Daughter 1977 - 3 Women 1976 - Carrie 1973 - Badlands 1972 - Prime Cut

BIOGRAPHY:

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.[1]
Early life 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.[2] 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.[3][4] Her mother, of English and Irish descent, was from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.[5]
Spacek was greatly affected by the death of her eighteen-year old brother, Robbie, in 1967, which she has called "the defining event of my whole life."[6] After she graduated from high school she moved to New York City, hoping to become a singer. There, she lived with her first cousin, actor Rip Torn, and his wife, actress Geraldine Page.[5]
Career Early work in New York City For a while, Spacek sang and played guitar in many of the Greenwich Village coffeehouses, eventually landing some paying work singing commercial jingles. In late 1968, under the pseudonym of "Rainbo", Spacek recorded a novelty song titled '"John, You've Gone Too Far This Time";[5] the song proclaimed her disillusionment and shock over John Lennon, who on the cover of his newest album Two Virgins appeared in full-frontal nudity with his then-girlfriend Yoko Ono, shocking many fans.[7] The single did not appear on the record charts and failed to sell well, so she was dropped by the record company.


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