Biography
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 r...
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Complete Filmography
Die My Love
2025
as Pam
A woman living in a remote rural area is driven to the brink of insanity by marriage and motherhood.
Sam & Kate
2022
as Tina
Bill is an ailing larger-than-life father being taken care of by his son Sam, who has returned home to care for him. While home, Sam falls for a local...
Without Getting Killed or Caught
2021
as Narrator / Voice of Susanna Clark (voice)
Follow Guy Clark, Susanna Clark, and Townes Van Zandt as they rise from obscurity to reverence: Guy, the Pancho to Van Zandt’s Lefty, struggling to es...
The Old Man & the Gun
2018
as Jewel
The true story of Forrest Tucker, from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded aut...
HyperNormalisation
2016
as Self (archive footage)
We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing, a...
River of Gold
2016
as Narrator
Narrated by Academy Award winners Sissy Spacek and Herbie Hancock, River of Gold is the disturbing account of a clandestine journey into Peru's Amazon...
Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl
2016
as Self / Loretta Lynn
Explore the country legend's hard-fought road to stardom. From her Appalachian roots to the Oscar-winning biopic of her life, Coal Miner's Daughter, L...
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy ...
Making Badlands
2013
as Self
An overview of the making of Badlands (1973).
Deadfall
2012
as June
A thriller that follows two siblings who decide to fend for themselves in the wake of a botched casino heist, and their unlikely reunion during anothe...
The Help
2011
as Missus Walters
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson ...
Get Low
2010
as Mattie Darrow
A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicki...
Four Christmases
2008
as Paula
Brad and Kate have made something of an art form out of avoiding their families during the holidays, but this year their foolproof plan is about go bu...
Lake City
2008
as Maggie
In this searing Southern drama, a mother and son reunite under desperate circumstances years after a family tragedy drove them far apart.
Pictures of Hollis Woods
2007
as Josie Cahill
After running away from her last foster placement with the Regan family, twelve year old Hollis Woods is placed with a new foster mother, the loving, ...
Hot Rod
2007
as Marie Powell
For Rod Kimble, performing stunts is a way of life, even though he is rather accident-prone. Poor Rod cannot even get any respect from his stepfather,...
Gray Matters
2007
as Dr. Sydney
Sam and Gray are such a well-matched pair that it is difficult to believe they are brother and sister rather than husband and wife. They both share a ...
Nine Lives
2005
as Ruth
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
An American Haunting
2005
as Lucy Bell
An invisible entity haunts a 19th century family, and family secrets soon begin to surface. Based on the true events of the only case in US History wh...
The Ring Two
2005
as Evelyn
After the ordeal with Samara, Rachel and Aiden move to a rural town. But soon Rachel learns about the death of a girl in a similar fashion. To save Ai...
North Country
2005
as Alice Aimes
A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States — Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endure...
A Home at the End of the World
2004
as Alice Glover
Three friends form a bond over the year, Johnathan is gay, Clare is straight and Bobby is neither, instead he loves the people he loves. As their live...
Absence of Malick
2003
as Self
An overview of the making of Terrence Malick's Badlands (1973), coupled with a examination of the mysterious personality of Malick himself.
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
as Self
A documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of today's best filmmakers interview the influential direc...
Tuck Everlasting
2002
as Mae Tuck
Teenager Winnie Foster is growing up in a small rural town in 1914 with her loving but overprotective parents, but Winnie longs for a life of greater ...
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002
as Self
Rosy-Fingered Dawn is a film on Terrence Malick. It is about the making of BADLANDS, DAYS OF HEAVEN, THE THIN RED LINE and the personal involvement of...
Last Call
2002
as Zelda Fitzgerald
Renowned writer F. Scott Fitzgerald is living the last months of his life with his youthful secretary, confidant, and protégé who later wrote a memoir...
In the Bedroom
2001
as Ruth Fowler
Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his ...
Acting 'Carrie'
2001
as Self
In this documentary, director Brian De Palma and the stars from his film "Carrie" (such as Sissy Spacek, Amy Irving, Piper Laurie, William Katt, Nancy...
Visualizing 'Carrie'
2001
as Self (archive footage)
The making of "Carrie" (1976) is presented on the film's 25th anniversary with interviews with director Brian De Palma, editor Paul Hirsch, art direct...
Midwives
2001
as Sibyl Danforth
It's a cold and stormy night, and in a house in rural Vermont, midwife Sibyl Danforth is, together with the father and an assistant, in the middle of ...
Songs In Ordinary Time
2000
as Marie Fermoyle
Based on Mary McGarry Morris' best-selling novel! A struggling mother takes in a mysterious stranger. Is she opening her heart to love ... or harborin...
The Straight Story
1999
as Rose
A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin ...
The Rage: Carrie 2
1999
as Carrie White (archive footage) (uncredited)
Following the suicide of her only friend, outcast teen Rachel Lang's life begins a downward spiral that will not only affect her but take everyone aro...
Blast from the Past
1999
as Helen
Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webers into their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam now ventures forth into Los Angeles to obtain fo...
Affliction
1997
as Margie Fogg
A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in him slowly disintegrating mentally...
Eye of God
1997
Thanks
A small Oklahoma town is stripped of its innocence when one of its boys turns up mute and bloodied by the lakeside. Unable to tell his story, the loca...
The Grass Harp
1996
as Verena Talbo
Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in ...
If These Walls Could Talk
1996
as Barbara Barrows
A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all face unplanned pregnancies. The vignettes follow a...
Beyond the Call
1996
as Pam O'Brien
Russell Gates (David Strahairn) is a Vietnam vet on death row for killing a policeman. His childhood sweetheart, Pam O'Brien (Sissy Spacek), is stunne...
The Good Old Boys
1995
as Spring Renfro
An aging cowboy must choose between his desire to remain free and the responsibilities of maintaining a family.
A Place for Annie
1994
as Susan Lansing
Baby Annie is HIV positive and has been left in the clinic by her drug addicted mother. To prevent that she's deported to a home where they'd just wai...
Trading Mom
1994
as Mommy / Mama / Mom / Natasha
The Martin kids learn of a magic spell that will take them to the 'mommy market' so they can get a more user friendly model. After giving a few other ...
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
1993
as Self
This spellbinding documentary re-examines the issues raised by Oliver Stone's JFK, and explores the late Jim Garrison's contention that there was a "s...
A Private Matter
1992
as Sherri Finkbine
The true story of Romper Room host "Miss Sherri" Finkbine, who, after the devastating effects of thalidomide were discovered in the early 1960s, spark...
Hard Promises
1992
as Christine Ann Coalter
A man who doesn't like stable work environments has been away for too many years, and finds out his wife has divorced him and is planning to remarry. ...
Fonda on Fonda
1992
as Self - The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (archive footage)
Jane Fonda hosts a tribute to her father.
JFK
1991
as Liz Garrison
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
The Talking Eggs
1991
as Narrator (voice)
This colorful Cajun folktale, set deep in the bayous of Louisiana, tells the story of Ruby Rouge, a young girl who befriends a mysterious old woman. S...
Voices That Care
1991
as Self - Choir Member
Behind the scenes making of the charity single "Voices That Care".
The Long Walk Home
1990
as Miriam Thompson
Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luth...
Crimes of the Heart
1986
as Babe Magrath
Three sisters try to come to grips with the meaning of their mother's suicide.
'night, Mother
1986
as Jessie Cates
A mother and daughter spend a night together after the daughter reveals that she will kill herself by the end of it.
Violets are Blue
1986
as Augusta "Gussie" Sawyer
After fifteen years of traveling around the world, Gussie, a famous photographer, returns to the Maryland coastal resort where she grew up. She meets ...
Marie: A True Story
1985
as Marie Ragghianti
In 1978 Tennessee, a single mother and political appointee risks her career and her life to blow the whistle on rampant corruption in the penal system...
The River
1984
as Mae Garvey
Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to s...
The Man with Two Brains
1983
as Anne Uumellmahaye (uncredited) (voice)
A brain surgeon marries a femme fatale, causing his life to turn upside down. Things go more awry when he falls in love with a talking brain.
Missing
1982
as Beth Horman
Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his s...
Raggedy Man
1981
as Nita
Nita, a divorced mother of two boys, is stuck working as a telephone operator in a small Texas town in World War II. Her friendship with a sailor on l...
Heart Beat
1980
as Carolyn Cassady
An exploration of the relationship between Beat Generation writers Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, and Cassady's wife, Carolyn.
Coal Miner's Daughter
1980
as Loretta Lynn
Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.
Verna: USO Girl
1978
as Verna Vane
An untalented singer-dancer, Verna Vane, fervently believes that a U.S.O. tour overseas will put her on the road to superstardom. Although she's more ...
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
1977
as Self
Train wreck, some might call it a TV special, proving that not everything was better in the good old days. That includes Rolling Stone Magazine.
Death Game
1977
Set Dresser
George Manning is a well-to-do businessman, husband, and father. While his family is away on his birthday, he invites a pair of rain-soaked young wome...
3 Women
1977
as Mildred "Pinky" Rose
Two co-workers, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship after becoming roommates.
Welcome to L.A.
1976
as Linda Murray
The lives of a group of Hollywood neurotics intersect over the Christmas holidays. Foremost among them, a songwriter visits Los Angeles to work on a s...
Carrie
1976
as Carrie
Withdrawn and sensitive teen Carrie White faces taunting from classmates at school and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When strange occurrenc...
Katherine
1975
as Katherine Alman
A harrowing look at the 60s and early 70s through the eyes of Katherine Alman, a wealthy debutante who slowly, but inexorably spirals down into a figh...
Phantom of the Paradise
1974
Set Dresser
Singer-songwriter Winslow Leach seeks revenge on the nefarious music producer Swan, who steals both Winslow's music and his favorite singer for the gr...
The Migrants
1974
as Wanda Trimpin
A look at the lives of migratory farm workers, focusing on one family.
Badlands
1974
as Holly Sargis
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
Ginger in the Morning
1973
as Ginger Brown
A recently divorced Santa Fe architect is surprised to find himself falling in love with a free-spirited young hitchhiker.
Ginger in the Morning
1973
Songs
A recently divorced Santa Fe architect is surprised to find himself falling in love with a free-spirited young hitchhiker.
The Girls of Huntington House
1973
as Sara
An unmarried teacher in a school for unwed mothers finds herself becoming too emotionally attached to her students and their problems.
Prime Cut
1972
as Poppy
A group of ruthless Chicago mob enforcers are sent to Kansas City to settle things with the owner of a slaughterhouse who has taken money that is not ...