Homecoming is a facility that helps soldiers transition to civilian life. Stick around long enough, and this place starts to feel like home. Meet the townsfolk of CastleRock, and catch up on the 3-episode premiere through the link in our bio. The one thing Sissy Spacek will not do is retire. At 27, she played the high school student going to the prom. The performance earned her universal critical praise, including the Academy Award for Best Actress.
On the heels of Coal Miner's Daughter , Spacek eschewed high profile projects to star in her husband's directorial debut, Raggedy Man , playing a divorced mother who has a dangerous relationship with a sailor, played by Eric Roberts. In , she portrayed a suicidal woman in 'night Mother , co-starring Anne Bancroft, and received her fifth Best Actress nomination, for her performance as the most eccentric of three sisters in Crimes of the Heart , co-starring Jessica Lange.
Both Spacek and Fisk then took a lengthy break from filmmaking, retreating to their Virginia farm, Beau Val, to spend time with their two daughters, Schuyler and Madison. She began to take acting jobs only intermittently after that, returning to the screen in the civil rights drama The Long Walk Home , costarring Whoopi Goldberg , in In , Spacek turned in a strong supporting performance in the dark drama Affliction , co-starring Nolte.
In a rare comedic performance, she played the matriarch of a family who spends 30 years living below ground in a bomb shelter in the little-seen Blast From the Past Sissy attended Quitman High School and was homecoming queen. After graduating, she embarked on an acting career, gaining interest in the profession through her cousin, actor Rip Torn. Sissy eventually broke into film and one of her first roles was as Holly in the classic Badlands The art director on that film was Jack Fisk , with whom she would marry in and ultimately collaborate on eight films.
Sissy followed this landmark film with a star-making and Oscar nominated performance in Carrie , in which she played a humiliated prom queen who goes postal with her telekinesis. Sissy has had an enduring and award winning career in movies and television, which includes an Oscar as Best Actress for Coal Miner's Daughter The parents of two grown daughters, Sissy and Jack live on a large horse ranch in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.
Even though she continued to appear in film and television during the late s and s, Sissy devoted most of those years to her family. Then, in , Sissy returned to the big screen in a major way with a powerful performance in In the Bedroom , which not only earned her a sixth Best Actress Oscar nomination, but a win for Best Actress at the Golden Globes, Independent Spirit Awards, and numerous critics association awards.
Sissy continues to work steadily as an actress, but in , her credits expanded even further to include a memoir, My Extraordinary Ordinary Life. Sign In. Edit Sissy Spacek. Showing all 77 items. Not only did she win an Oscar for her performance in Coal Miner's Daughter , but she was nominated for a Grammy for her rendition of the title song in the category Best Country Vocal Performance, Female.
Decided to skip college after her older brother, Robbie, died at 18 years of age in from leukemia during her senior year in high school. She decided life was way too short to waste it in four years of college. Lives on acre farmland named "Beau Val" near Charlottesville, Virginia. Her brother, Edwin Spacek, is a music industry consultant in Austin, Texas. Separately, they have also each appeared in films in the Lonesome Dove series.
She won an Oscar for playing Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter , making her one of 18 actors to win the Award for playing a real person who was still alive at the evening of the Award ceremony as of Her Best Actress Oscar nomination for Carrie is notable in that performances in horror films are rarely recognized by the academy. In the novel Sue participated in the prank, though it was Christine Hargensen that started it all.
She only partially participated and was disgusted, when she realized, that Carrie did not know about having a period. He does. On prom night, Carrie kills many of her classmates by willing their bodies into walls, and sparking electrocutions and fires with her brain. At one point, she can even propel her own body to fly across the gym to duck out as the whole building collapses in flames around her.
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