| Sissy Spacek  AKA Mary Elizabeth Spacek
Born: 25-Dec-1949
Birthplace: Quitman, TX
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Coal Miner's Daughter After graduating from high school, Spacek came to New York for an extended stay with her cousin, actor Rip Torn, and his wife, Geraldine Page. She briefly sang and played guitar at West Village bar called The Bitter End, under the painfully '60s-esque stage name "Rainbo". She wanted to act, so Torn pulled strings to get her into Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio. Later, when agents suggested she should change her unusual name, it was Torn who talked her out of it. Spacek made her movie debut in 1970 as "girl at bar" in Andy Warhol's Trash. She appeared in two episodes of The Waltons, was sold into sex slavery in 1972's Prime Cut, and played a girl 'in trouble' in a 1973 TV movie about a home for unwed mothers, The Girls of Huntington House. Playing a thinly fictionalized version of serial killer Caril Fugate, Spacek garnered good reviews in Terrence Malick's Badlands (1973), opposite Martin Sheen as Charles Starkweather. She soon married Badlands art director Jack Fisk.
Several months later, when Fisk was working on Phanton of the Paradise, one of his crew walked out on the first day of shooting, and Spacek volunteered to serve as a set dresser. Phantom's director, Brian De Palma, remembered Spacek two years later, when Fisk suggested that she would be perfect for the title role in the indelible Carrie. Spacek received an Oscar nomination, and Carrie is still one of De Palma's best films, and arguably the best adaptation of a Stephen King novel. Spacek won her Oscar playing Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980). She has also been nominated for Missing (1982), The River (1984), Crimes of the Heart (1986), and In the Bedroom (2001). Also among her best films: Three Women, 'Night, Mother, The Long Walk Home, and Crimes of the Heart.
Fisk, Spacek's husband, appeared on camera as the man in the planet, yanking the lever to start the nightmare, in David Lynch's Eraserhead. Father: Edwin A. Spacek
Mother: Virginia Spilman
Brother: Robbie (d. leukemia)
Husband: Jack Fisk (art director, m. 1974, two daughters)
Daughter: Schuyler Fisk (actress, b. 1982)
Daughter: Virginia Madison Fisk (actress, b. 1988)
High School: Quitman High School, Quitman, TX (1967)
4-H Club
Oscar for Best Actress 1981 for Coal Miner's Daughter
Golden Globe 1981 for Coal Miner's Daughter
Golden Globe 1987 for Crimes of the Heart
Golden Globe 2002 for In the Bedroom
TELEVISION
Bloodline Sally Rayburn (2015-)
Big Love Marilyn Densham (2010)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
The Old Man & the Gun (31-Aug-2018)
Birth of the Living Dead (18-Oct-2013) · Herself
Deadfall (22-Apr-2012)
The Help (10-Aug-2011) · Missus Walters
Get Low (12-Sep-2009) · Mattie Darrow
Four Christmases (26-Nov-2008) · Paula
Lake City (25-Apr-2008) · Maggie
Pictures of Hollis Woods (2-Dec-2007)
Hot Rod (3-Aug-2007) · Marie Powell
Gray Matters (21-Oct-2006)
An American Haunting (5-Nov-2005) · Lucy Bell
North Country (12-Sep-2005) · Alice Aimes
The Ring Two (17-Mar-2005) · Evelyn
Nine Lives (24-Jan-2005) · Ruth
A Home at the End of the World (9-Jun-2004) · Alice Glover
A Decade Under the Influence (19-Jan-2003) · Herself
Tuck Everlasting (8-Sep-2002) · Mae Tuck
Last Call (25-May-2002) · Zelda Fitzgerald
Midwives (2-Apr-2001)
In the Bedroom (19-Jan-2001)
The Straight Story (21-May-1999)
Blast from the Past (27-Jan-1999)
Affliction (28-Aug-1997) · Margie Fogg
If These Walls Could Talk (11-Sep-1996)
Beyond the Call (23-Jun-1996) · Pam O'Brien
Streets of Laredo (12-Nov-1995)
The Grass Harp (10-Sep-1995)
The Good Old Boys (5-Mar-1995)
Trading Mom (13-May-1994)
A Place for Annie (1-May-1994)
A Private Matter (20-Jun-1992)
JFK (20-Dec-1991) · Liz Garrison
Hard Promises (14-Sep-1991) · Chris
The Long Walk Home (11-Sep-1990) · Miriam Thompson
Crimes of the Heart (12-Dec-1986) · Babe Magrath
'Night Mother (5-Sep-1986)
Violets Are Blue (11-Apr-1986)
Marie (Oct-1985)
The River (19-Dec-1984) · Mae Garvey
Missing (12-Feb-1982) · Beth Horman
Raggedy Man (18-Sep-1981) · Nita
Heart Beat (25-Apr-1980)
Coal Miner's Daughter (22-Feb-1980) · Loretta Webb
Verna: USO Girl (25-Jan-1978)
3 Women (11-Nov-1977) · Pinky Rose
Welcome to L.A. (12-Nov-1976)
Carrie (3-Nov-1976) · Carrie
Katherine (5-Oct-1975)
Ginger in the Morning (Jul-1974)
The Migrants (3-Feb-1974)
Badlands (15-Oct-1973) · Holly
Prime Cut (28-Jun-1972)
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