Biography
Sissy Spacek is an American actress and singer. Born Mary Elizabeth Spacek on 25 December 1949 in Quitman, Texas, she began her professional acting career in the early 1970s.
Her breakthrough came with the role of Holly Sargis in Terrence Malick's Badlands (1974). She received an Academy Award nomination for her performance as Carrie White in Brian De Palma's Carrie (1976) and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for portraying Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980). Other notable films include Missing (1982), The River (1984), Crimes of the Heart (1986), In the Bedroom (2001), The Help (2011) and The Old Man & the Gun (2018).
Spacek has also worked in television, including roles in Night Sky (2022) and Homecoming (2018). In 2025 she appeared as Pam in the film Die My Love and as Gail in the series Dying for Sex.
