Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (born
December 25,
1949) is an
Academy Award–winning
American actress and singer. Her screen debut was in the 1972 film
Prime Cut co-starring
Lee Marvin and
Gene Hackman.
International prominence would soon follow in the 1970s, as she began starring in a number of critically-acclaimed cult classics for renowned directors such as
Terrence Malick,
Brian de Palma and
Robert Altman. Her most famous performance is as the blood-spattered eponymous heroine of de Palma's 1976 high-school melodrama/horror film
Carrie. In the 1980s she became a mainstream Hollywood leading lady, winning the
Best Actress Oscar in 1980 for her role as country star
Loretta Lynn in
Coal Miner's Daughter, and garnering three other nominations that decade. Spacek is known mainly as a dramatic actress, but has made occasional (and generally successful) forays into light comedy. The films Spacek has starred in have earned over $700 million world wide.
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