Multi-award-winning actress Sally Field has been named the 58th recipient of SAG-AFTRA’s top honor: the SAG Life Achievement Award for Career Achievement and Humanitarian Achievement.
Field will be honored at the 29th Screen Actors Guild Awards, which will air live on Sunday, February 26 at 8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT on Netflix’s YouTube channel, YouTube.com/Netflix, from Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.
“Sally is an incredible actress with tremendous range and an incredible ability to embody any character,” said SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher. “I enjoyed watching her early career as she played Gidget and the Flying Nun and then, in increasingly challenging roles, as Sybil and Norma Rae. She never stopped being extraordinary, most recently in Winning Time where she was just amazing as Jessie Buss.
“She has a sustainable career because her performance is authentic and she always radiates sympathy and humanity – she simply connects. It’s one of the reasons she’s maintained her massive fandom and incredibly rich and diverse career. Sally is a big star with a working actor ethos – go ahead and do your best. Every stage in an actor’s life brings different opportunities, and you just have to keep working. Sally doesn’t stop and we hope she never will.”
The SAG Lifetime Achievement Award, presented annually to an actor who “upholds the best ideals in the acting profession,” is the latest of Field’s impressive accolades in a career that has featured dozens of iconic roles on both the big and small screens. interpreted. . . She has previously received two Academy Awards, one SAG Award, three Emmys, two BAFTA Awards, New York Film Critics Award, National Board of Review Award, Los Angeles Film Critics Award, National Society of Film Critics Honor, Best Actress received at the Cannes Film. Festival and more.
Field was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012 and honored by President Obama with the National Medal of Arts in 2015. In 2019, she received the prestigious Kennedy Center Honor.
Field was last seen in Michael Showalter’s film Devastation warning and stars alongside Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Rita Moreno in the upcoming comedy 80 for Brady.
Writer: Gregory Evans
Source: Deadline
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