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Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (/ ˈ s p eɪ s ɛ k /; born December 25, 1949) is an American actress.She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for four BAFTA Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award.
Fisk was born on July 8, 1982, in Los Angeles to actress Sissy Spacek and production designer Jack Fisk. She has a younger sister named Madison. [1] Fisk began acting in school plays as a child and progressed to acting in film roles. Her first part was playing a bumblebee in a community theatre production of Charlotte's Web.
Sissy Spacek earned an Academy Award for her portrayal of country singer Loretta Lynn in "Coal Miner's Daughter." Loretta Lynn, left, and Sissy Spacek, right, as Lynn.
Fisk was offered the role of Carrie White in a new version of Spacek's 1976 horror favorite. Sissy Spacek's daughter Schuyler Fisk reveals she almost played one of her mother's most famous roles ...
Determined to land the leading role, Spacek backed out of a television commercial she was scheduled to film, [14] rubbed Vaseline into her hair, left her face unwashed, and arrived for her screen test clad in a sailor dress which her mother had made her in the seventh grade, with the hem cut off, [9] and was given the part.
Spacek wed production designer Jack Fisk — whom she met on the set of her breakout film, Badlands — in 1974, and they can boast to being among Hollywood's most enduring (and endearing) couples ...
Sissy Spacek as Mrs. Martin/Mama, the snappy French woman/Mom, the nature-hiker/Natasha, the circus performer; Anna Chlumsky as Elizabeth Martin; Aaron Michael Metchik as Jeremy Martin; Asher Metchik (Aaron's real-life brother) as Harry Martin; Maureen Stapleton as Mrs. Cavour; André the Giant as the Circus Strongman; Merritt Yohnka as ...
Sissy Spacek falls into all three categories, having been personally selected by Lynn to star in the 1980 biopic, Coal Miner's Daughter, based on her rags-to-riches life story. The actress won a ...