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Trivia
"Sissy" was a nickname that her brothers used
to call her when she was growing up, and so it stayed
with her. During her audition for Carrie (1976), she
wore a dress that her mother forced her to wear to a
seventh grade party when she was younger.
For her Oscar-winning
performance in "Coalminer's Daughter" (1980)
Spacek was Grammy-nominated for her rendition of the
title song in the category: Best Country Vocal Performance,
Female.
Listed as
one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1976"
in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 28.
She is the
cousin of Rip Torn
She appeared
in the music video and sang in the choir on the song
"Voices That Care."
Mother of
Schuyler Fisk
Attended
Quitman High School in Quitman, Texas. She was a majorette
and homecoming queen.
Lives with
her husband Jack Fisk and their daughters Schuyler and
Madison on their 210-acre northern Virginia horse farm.
Sissy first
got into acting when she was visiting her cousin actor
Rip Torn.
Attended
the Lee Strasburg Institute.
Was the first
choice to play the daughter in Terms of Endearment (1983).
Released
a country LP titled Hangin' Up My Heart on Atlantic
Records in 1983.
Decided to
skip college after her older brother, Robbie, died from
leukemia during her senior year in high school. She
decided life was way too short to waste it in 4 years
of college.
Mother of
Schuyler Fisk and Madison Fisk
Lives on
300 acre farmland named "Beau Val" in Charlottesville,
Virginia.
Brother Robbie
died of leukemia at age 18 in 1967.
Brother Ed
is a music industry consultant in Austin, Texas.
Measurements:
34B-24-35 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Personal quotes
"The business has been good to me. I would be a
hypocrite if I tried to convince her not to do this."
- about her daughter Schuyler Fisk becoming an actress.
"I had
a dozen years to act before starting a family then found
that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice
a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its
redeeming social value." - Parade, April 1, 2001
"I asked
if they could use some backflashes instead. I enjoyed
the sequel, but hated my role in the first film. I was
awful." - on why she didn't want to appear in The
Rage: Carrie 2.
"My
cousin, Rip Torn, persuaded me not to change my name:
You shouldn't change what you are in the search for
success."
Sissy Spacek - Filmography
Below is a complete filmography
(list of movies she's appeared in)
Home at the End of the World, A (2004) .... Alice Glover
Tuck Everlasting (2002) .... Mae Tuck
Last Call (2002/I) (TV) .... Zelda Fitzgerald
... aka Fitzgerald (2002) (TV) (USA)
Midwives (2001) (TV) .... Sibyl Danforth
In the Bedroom (2001) .... Ruth Fowler
Songs in Ordinary Time (2000) (TV) .... Mary Fermoyle
Straight Story, The (1999) .... Rose 'Rosie' Straight
... aka Une histoire vraie (1999) (France)
Rage: Carrie 2, The (1999) (archive footage) .... Carrie
White
Blast from the Past (1999) .... Helen Thomas Webber
Affliction (1997) .... Marge Fogg
If These Walls Could Talk (1996) (TV) .... Barbara Barrows
(segment "1974")
Beyond the Call (1996) (TV) .... Pam O'Brien
"Streets of Laredo" (1995) (mini) TV Series
.... Lorena Parker
... aka "Larry McMurtry's Streets of Laredo"
(1995) (mini)
Grass Harp, The (1995) .... Verena Talbo
Good Old Boys, The (1995) (TV) .... Spring Renfro
Trading Mom (1994) .... Mrs. Mommy Martin/Mama, Snappy
French/Mom, the Nature-Hiker/Natasha, the Circus Performer
... aka Mommy Market, The (1994) (USA)
Place for Annie, A (1994) (TV) .... Susan Lansing
Private Matter, A (1992) (TV) .... Sherri Finkbine
... aka Miss Sherri (1992) (TV) (USA)
JFK (1991) .... Liz Garrison
... aka JFK (1991) (France)
Hard Promises (1991) .... Chris
Long Walk Home, The (1990) .... Miriam Thompson
Crimes of
the Heart (1986) .... Rebeca 'Babe'/'Becky' Magrath
Botrelle
'Night Mother (1986) .... Jessie Cates
Violets Are Blue... (1986) .... Gussie Sawyer
Marie (1985) .... Marie Ragghianti
... aka Marie: A True Story (1985)
River, The (1984) .... Mae Garvey
Man with Two Brains, The (1983) (voice) (uncredited)
.... Anne Uumellmahaye
Missing (1982) .... Beth Horman
Raggedy Man (1981) .... Nita
Heart Beat (1980) .... Carolyn Cassady
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) .... Loretta Webb/Lynn
Verna: USO
Girl (1978) (TV) .... Verna Vane
3 Women (1977) .... Pinky Rose
... aka Three Women (1977) (USA)
Welcome to L.A. (1976) .... Linda Murray
Carrie (1976) .... Carrie White
Katherine (1975) (TV) .... Katherine Alman
... aka Radical, The (1975) (TV)
Migrants, The (1974) (TV) .... Wanda Trimpin
Ginger in the Morning (1973) .... Ginger
Badlands (1973) .... Holly Sargis
Girls of Huntington House, The (1973) (TV) .... Sara
Prime Cut (1972) .... Poppy
Trash (1970) (uncredited) .... Girl extra at bar
... aka Andy Warhol's Trash (1970) (International: English
title)
Sissy Spacek - Notable TV Guest
Appearances
"Inside the Actors Studio" (1994)
playing "Herself" 6 October 2002
"Seitenblicke" (1988) playing "Herself"
17 April 2002
"Rosie O'Donnell Show, The" (1996) playing
"Herself" 25 October 1996
"Saturday Night Live" (1975) playing "Host"
(episode # 2.16) 12 March 1977
"Rookies, The" (1972) playing "Barbara
Tabnor" in episode: "Sound of Silence"
(episode # 2.14) 17 December 1973
"Waltons, The" (1972) playing "Sarah"
in episode: "The Odyssey" (episode # 2.2)
20 September 1973
"Waltons, The" (1972) playing "Sarah
Simmonds" in episode: "The Townie" (episode
# 1.23) 8 March 1973
"Love, American Style" (1969) in episode:
"Love and the Old Lover" (episode # 4.16b)
19 January 1973
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