SALLY FIELD

Sally Field plays mother Nora Walker on Brothers and Sisters. Nora has been estranged from her daughter Kitty for three years and blames her for her son leaving to fight the war in Afghanistan.

As a two-time Academy Award winner for her performances in “Places in the Heart” and “Norma Rae,” Sally Field continually captivates her audiences with her passion in bringing incredibly vivid characters to life. Ms. Field also has an Emmy Award for her title role as a young woman with multiple personalities in the four-hour television film, “Sybil,” with Joanne Woodward.

In the fall of 2000, Ms. Field made her feature film directorial debut with “Beautiful,” which starred Minnie Driver as a woman who aspires to become Miss America and will do anything to be crowned a beauty queen.

Her film credits include “An Eye for an Eye,”, the hugely successful “Forrest Gump” and “Mrs. Doubtfire.” Other feature films include “Soapdish,” “Not Without my Daughter,” and “Steel Magnolias,” “Her first major film was “Stay Hungry,” starring Jeff Bridges and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Born in Pasadena, California, and raised in a show business family, Ms. Field was enrolled in acting classes at Columbia Pictures when she was selected from among 150 finalists to star in the television series “Gidget.” She went on to star in the series “The Flying Nun” and “The Girl with Something Extra.”