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Mary Elizabeth 'Sissy' Spacek (born December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for four British Academy Film Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. Spacek was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011. Born and raised in Texas, she initially aspired to a career as a recording artist. In 1968, at age 18, she recorded a single, "John, You Went Too Far This Time," under the name Rainbo. She began her professional acting career in the early 1970s, making her debut as an extra in Andy Warhol's Women in Revolt (1971). Her breakout role came with Terrence Malick's influential crime film Badlands (1973), which earned her a nomination for the British Academy Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles. She rose to international prominence with her portrayal of Carrie White in Brian De Palma's horror film Carrie (1976), for which she received her first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. After appearing in the acclaimed films Welcome to L.A. (1976) and Robert Altman's 3 Women (1977), she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn in the biographical musical film Coal Miner's Daughter (1980). Her other Oscar-nominated roles include Missing (1982), The River (1984), Crimes of the Heart (1986), and In the Bedroom (2001). Her other prominent films include Raggedy Man (1981), JFK (1991), Affliction (1997), The Straight Story (1999), Tuck Everlasting (2002), Nine Lives (2005), North Country (2005), Four Christmases (2008), Get Low (2010), The Help (2011), and The Old Man & the Gun (2018). She received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the television films The Good Old Boys (1995) and Last Call (2002), and for her guest role on the HBO drama series Big Love (2011). She portrayed matriarch Sally Rayburn on the Netflix drama thriller series Bloodline (2015–2017), Ruth Deaver on the Hulu psychological horror series Castle Rock (2018), and Ellen Bergman on the Amazon Prime Video psychological thriller series Homecoming (2018). She has also ventured into music, and recorded vocals for the soundtrack album of Coal Miner's Daughter, which peaked at number two on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart and garnered her a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. She released a studio album, Hangin' Up My Heart (1983), which was critically well-received and peaked at number 17 on Billboard Top Country Albums chart.

Love Letter to Texas
as Narrator

Die My Love
as Pam

Dying for Sex
as Gail

Henry Fonda for President
as Self (archive footage)

Sam & Kate
as Tina

Night Sky
as Irene York

Without Getting Killed or Caught
as Narrator / Voice of Susanna Clark (voice)

Homecoming
as Ellen Bergman

The Old Man & the Gun
as Jewel

Castle Rock
as Ruth Deaver

GQ Presents: Iconic Characters
as Self

HyperNormalisation
as Self (archive footage)

River of Gold
as Narrator

Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl
as Self / Loretta Lynn

Bloodline
as Sally Rayburn

Off Camera with Sam Jones
as Self

Making Badlands
as Self

Deadfall
as June

The Help
as Missus Walters

Get Low
as Mattie Darrow

Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People

Four Christmases
as Paula

Lake City
as Maggie

Pictures of Hollis Woods
as Josie Cahill

Hot Rod
as Marie Powell

Gray Matters
as Dr. Sydney

Big Love
as Marilyn Densham

Nine Lives
as Ruth

An American Haunting
as Lucy Bell

The Ring Two
as Evelyn

North Country
as Alice Aimes

A Home at the End of the World
as Alice Glover

Absence of Malick
as Self

A Decade Under the Influence
as Self

Tuck Everlasting
as Mae Tuck

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
as Self

Last Call
as Zelda Fitzgerald

In the Bedroom
as Ruth Fowler

Acting 'Carrie'
as Self

Visualizing 'Carrie'
as Self (archive footage)

Midwives
as Sibyl Danforth

Songs In Ordinary Time
as Marie Fermoyle

The Straight Story
as Rose

The Rage: Carrie 2
as Carrie White (archive footage) (uncredited)

Blast from the Past
as Helen

Affliction
as Margie Fogg

The View
as Self

The Grass Harp
as Verena Talbo

If These Walls Could Talk
as Barbara Barrows

Beyond the Call
as Pam O'Brien

The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self - Guest

Streets of Laredo
as Lorena

Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain
as Martha Jefferson Randolph (voice)

The Good Old Boys
as Spring Renfro

Inside the Actors Studio
as Self

A Place for Annie
as Susan Lansing

Trading Mom
as Mommy / Mama / Mom / Natasha

Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
as Self

A Private Matter
as Sherri Finkbine

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
as Narrator (voice)