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Sissy Spacek Bio
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Sissy Spacek
Sissy Spacek, an Oscar-winning actress and Grammy winner, was born Mary Elizabeth Spacek on Christmas Day, 1949, to Edwin Arnold Spacek and Virginia Spilman in Quitman, Texas. Spacek was nicknamed Sissy by her brothers. Her senior year in high school was both successful and troublesome as she was voted Homecoming Queen, yet at the same time her older brother died of leukemia at age 18.
Realizing that life was too short, Spacek decided to forgo college life to pursue a career in acting, following the lead of her cousin, Rip Torn. He helped her get started in New York, as she enrolled in the Actors Studio and Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. Even though Spacek also tried her hand at modeling and singing, it was always acting that brought her the most success.
Spacek’s first credited role was as Poppy in Prime Cut, appearing alongside such notable Hollywood actors as Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman. Next up was a co-starring role in The Girls of Huntington House with Pamela Sue Martin and Shirley Jones, about a school for unwed mothers. This led to Spacek’s first starring role, with Martin Sheen in Badlands, a movie about a teenager and her much older boyfriend that go on a killing spree. Success was twofold for Spacek with this movie, as she also met her husband, Jack Fisk, who worked on the film as art director.
The first Academy Award nomination for Spacek came with the movie, Carrie, based on the Stephen King novel about a high school girl with telekinetic powers who seeks revenge on those that have picked on her at the high school prom. She starred in this movie along with John Travolta. Spacek finally won the Academy Award in the film adaptation of Loretta Lynn’s autobiography, Coal Miner’s Daughter, starring with Tommy Lee Jones. In the title role, Spacek sang Lynn’s tunes and won a Grammy award for the title song.
Spacek starred next in Raggedy Man as a divorced mother in World War II, along with Eric Roberts and Sam Shepard. Another Academy Award nomination came with her role in Missing, the true story of a man, Jack Lemmon, searching with his daughter-in-law in South America for his missing son who is a journalist. The River gave Spacek a starring role alongside Mel Gibson, and also another Academy Award nomination. Spacek and Gibson starred as farmers falling on rough financial times.
In ‘Night Mother, Spacek starred alongside another Academy Award winner, Anne Bancroft. The movie had a controversial theme, with Spacek’s character as the daughter telling Bancroft, her mother, that she is going to end her life that night. Spacek stars with more Academy Award winners in Crimes of the Heart. Spacek, Diane Keaton, and Jessica Lange are three sisters supporting each other after one of them shoots her husband. This role earned Spacek her fifth nomination for an Academy Award.
Spacek appeared with Tommy Lee Jones again in JFK, Oliver Stone’s hypothesized movie of President Kennedy’s assassination. Also appearing in the film were Kevin Costner, Kevin Bacon, and Gary Oldman. A few years went by before Spacek had her next hit, this time in a comedy, Blast From the Past. She starred with Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken, and Dave Foley in a movie about a family that goes underground in a bomb shelter for thirty-five years, mistakenly believing the country was being attacked.
In the Bedroom stars Spacek along with Tom Wilkinson and Marisa Tomei about a family that is ripped apart when the college-aged son starts dating an older woman with a jealous ex. Spacek once again earned an Academy Award nomination for the film. She followed this with a role in the movie Everlasting Tuck, about a young girl who falls in love with young man who, along with his family, is immortal. William Hurt, Jonathon Jackson, and Ben Kingsley starred in this as well.
Making a return to the movie genre that brought her first success, Spacek co-starred in the horror flick Ring 2, along with Naomi Watts, Elizabeth Perkins, and Gary Cole. Spacek returned to dramatic films, appearing in North Country alongside Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, and Woody Harrelson. |
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