Trivia

While filming the scene in Norma Rae (1979) where she is dragged out to the police car, she struggled and kicked so hard that she broke the rib of one of the men playing a police officer.

In 1988, she survived the crash of her private airplane with no injuries. The plane lost power on take-off and skidded into some parked airplanes on the tarmac.

Dated Burt Reynolds for 4 years, but she refused his marriage proposals and eventually they broke up. He still (2018) says she's the love of his life.

Considers her on-screen kiss with James Garner as the best kiss she ever had.

In Punchline (1988), she plays Tom Hanks' love interest. In Forrest Gump (1994), they play mother and son.

Co-starred with Burt Reynolds in four films: Smokey and the Bandit (1977), The End (1978), Hooper (1978) and Smokey and the Bandit II (1980).

Made two different appearances as a contestant on The Dating Game (1965).

Her Oscar-winning performance as Norma Rae Webster in Norma Rae (1979) was ranked #15 on the American Film Institute's heroes list in their compilation of the 100 years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains.

Is one of two actresses who have won both the Best Actress Oscar (hers being for Norma Rae (1979) and Places in the Heart (1984)) and the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Emmy (hers being for Brothers & Sisters (2006)). The other actress is Glenda Jackson.

Protested alongside fellow actresses Jane Fonda, Christine Lahti, and playwright Eve Ensler urging the Mexican government to re-investigate the slaying of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juarez, on the Mexico-Texas border. (February 2004)

Auditioned for the role of Elaine Robinson in The Graduate (1967).

Her mother, Margaret Field, died on November 6, 2011, the day of Sally's 65th birthday.

Gave birth at age 41 to her third child, a son, Samuel H. Morlan Greisman (aka Sam Greisman), on December 2, 1987 in Los Angeles, California. Child's father is her second husband, Alan Greisman.

When Sally's ex-boyfriend Steven Craig proposed in 1968, he couched it in the form of an ultimatum: "Marry me, or I will marry someone else." Field accepted. The "someone else" was actress Ronne Troup, who in 1967 had begun filming the Flying Nun pilot as the lead (Sister Bertrille) after Field had turned down the role. Troup got bumped when Field (who Screen Gems had actually had in mind for the part from the beginning) was convinced by her stepfather to change her mind and accept the job.

Has three films on the American Film Institute's 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time. They are: Places in the Heart (1984) at #95, Forrest Gump (1994) at #37, and Norma Rae (1979) at #16.

Is an alumna of the Lee Strasberg Institute, as are Harvey Keitel, Frank Miranda, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.

Graduate of Birmingham High School, Van Nuys, California, Class of 1964 with Michael Ovitz, who later became her agent. Field's class voted her "Class Clown". Another fellow student was Cindy Williams.

Was the first choice for the role of Veronica Quaife in David Cronenberg's remake The Fly (1986), which went to Geena Davis.

Was three months pregnant with her son Sam Greisman when she completed filming on Punchline (1988).

Mentioned in the theme song of the 1980s television series The Fall Guy (1981).

Was asked to play the lead role in the romantic comedy Moonstruck (1987).

The unexpected death of ex-boyfriend Burt Reynolds on September 6, 2018 comes 12 days before the release of Field's autobiography "In Pieces". Reynolds was still publicly declaring his love for Field as recently as March. When Sally appeared on The View (1997) to promote her book, she said she hadn't really spoken to Burt in 30 years.

Dated Pete Duel, Davy Jones, Lee Majors, Jimmy Webb, Kevin Kline and Johnny Carson. After her second divorce she was briefly involved with Jerry D. Knight. She's kept her love life quiet since then.

She has worked with 5 directors who have won a Best Director Oscar: Sydney Pollack, Robert Benton, Robert Zemeckis, John Schlesinger, and Steven Spielberg.

Good friends with Goldie Hawn and longtime friends with Pat Mitchell.

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6767 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on May 5, 2014.

Spoofed her 1985 Academy Award acceptance speech in a 2000 commercial.

She has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Norma Rae (1979) and Forrest Gump (1994).

As of 2014, has appeared in four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Norma Rae (1979), Places in the Heart (1984), Forrest Gump (1994) and Lincoln (2012). Forrest Gump (1994) is the only winner in the category. It is also the only film for which she did not give an Oscar nominated performance. She won Best Actress for the first two films.

Returned to work seven months after giving birth to her son Sam Greisman to begin filming Steel Magnolias (1989).

Field was awarded a 2012 Human Rights Campaign Ally for Equality award for her advocacy for gay rights issues. The award was presented by her youngest son, Sam Greisman, who is openly gay.

Has four grandchildren; Isabel (b. 1998) and Sophie (b. 2001) via son Peter Craig, and Noah (b. 2006) and Colin (b. 2014) via son Eli Craig.

Turned down the lead role of Alice Hardy in Friday the 13th (1980).

Daughter of Richard Dryden Field (1914-1993), a US Army captain, and Margaret Field (1922-2011), a contract player with Paramount Pictures who starred in B movies. They were married from 1942 until 1950.

Gave birth to her first child at age 23, a son, Peter Craig, on November 10, 1969. Child's father is her first husband, Steven Craig.

Both Sally and her mother, Margaret Field, have osteoporosis.

Has an older brother, Richard Dryden Field, a physicist.

Her performance as Norma Rae Webster in Norma Rae (1979) is ranked #73 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.

Friends with husband and wife Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw.

Gave birth at age 25 to her second child, a son, Elijah M. Craig (aka Eli Craig), on May 25, 1972. Child's father is her first husband, Steven Craig.

Her 1985 Oscar acceptance speech was mocked by the title character (Jim Carrey) in The Mask (1994), when she won Best Actress for Places in the Heart (1984). Her actual words were "You like me... right now, you like me!" but was often misquoted as "...you really like me!" or "...you really love me!".

Owns a production company: Fogwood Films.

She applied for Juliet Capulet's role in Romeo and Juliet (1968), but because filming was about to start at the same time as the first episodes of The Flying Nun (1967), she was prevented from getting the part.

Is honored by the Palm Springs International Film Festival with its Career Achievement Award on January 5, 2013.

The longest she has gone without an Oscar nomination is 28 years, between Places in the Heart (1984) and Lincoln (2012).

Was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1989.

Had to turn down the female lead in Live a Little, Love a Little (1968) due to scheduling conflicts with her TV series.

Daughter of actress Margaret Field (née Margaret Joy Morlan), who was born in Houston, Texas. Ex-stepdaughter of actor Jock Mahoney.

She has English, Irish, German, and Dutch, ancestry. Her paternal great-grandfather, John Quincy Field, was born in Grimsby, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada.

Moved into a new apartment in a prestigious but very low-key building on Horatio St in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. (July 2012)