Sally Field

Born: 6th November 1946
Where: Pasadena, California

The two-time Academy Award winner is making a notable comeback courtesy of roles like Legally Blonde 2 and impressive stage performances.

Daughter of actress Margaret Field, Field began her career in 1965 on TV in Gidget and The Flying Nun.

She played Jeff Bridges' love interest in 1976's Stay Hungry and a woman with many personalities in the compelling TV movie Sybil, for which she won an Emmy.

A romantic liaison with Burt Reynolds led to their co-starring in Smokey and the Bandit and Hooper while her Oscar-winning performance as union organizer Norma Rae cemented her place in Hollywood.

Field formed her own production company, Fogwood Films, in 1981, which saw her developing and producing her own films leading to projects such as Murphy's Romance, Punchline, and Steel Magnolias.

She also played Mrs Gump oppposite Tom Hanks in the box office success Forest Gump in 1994.

After a long absence, Field returned to TV in 1995, producing and starring in the Emmy-nominated miniseries A Woman of Independent Means.

As she grew older, she found the choice of roles limited and her screen presence dwindled to mostly cameos and supporting parts like Where the Heart Is.

As the challenges of finding good roles increased, Field increasingly turned to behind the scenes work and made her writing and directing debut in 1996 with the sentimental holiday drama The Christmas Tree.

She returned to TV in the recurring role of the mentally unstable mother of nurse Abby Lockhart in ER, for which she garnered an Emmy nomination, and then in 2001, starred in a series about a US Supreme court justice in The Court.

Returning to cinema, she played the duplicitous Congresswoman Rudd opposite Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde 2.