Sissy Spacek

Did You Know?

• Sissy is married to Jack Fisk. They have two daughters, Schuyler and Madison.
• She was Homecoming Queen at Quitman High School.
• Sissy decided to pursue an acting career and her cousin, actor Rip Torn, helped her get started.
• Sissy is very grounded, despite her Hollywood success. She still drives around her small Virginia town in a pick-up truck.

Movie Highlights

Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
Sissy won an Oscar for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter.

Carrie (1976)
When she went to audition for the horror movie Carrie, Sissy wore a dress her mother made for her to wear to her 7th grade dance.

Actor Credits

1. The Help (2011)
2. Get Low (2010)
3. Songs in Ordinary Time (2009)
4. Lake City (2008)
5. Four Christmases (2008)
6. Hot Rod (2007)
7. Gray Matters (2007)
8. An American Haunting (2006)
9. Nine Lives (2005)
10. North Country (2005)
11. The Ring Two (2005)
12. A Home At The End Of The World (2004)
13. Last Call: The Final Chapter Of F. Scott Fitzgerald (2003)
14. Tuck Everlasting (2002)
15. In The Bedroom (2001)
16. The Straight Story (1999)
17. Blast From The Past (1999)
18. Affliction (1997)
19. If These Walls Could Talk (1996)
20. Beyond The Call (1996)
21. Streets Of Laredo (1995)
22. The Grass Harp (1995)
23. The Good Old Boys (1995)
24. A Place For Annie (1994)
25. The Mommy Market (1994)
26. Trading Mom (1994)
27. A Private Matter (1992)
28. Hard Promises (1991)
29. JFK (1991)
30. The Long Walk Home (1990)
31. 'Night, Mother (1986)
32. Crimes Of The Heart (1986)
33. Violets Are Blue (1986)
34. Marie: A True Story (1985)
35. The River (1984)
36. Missing (1982)
37. Raggedy Man (1981)
38. Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
39. Heart Beat (1980)
40. 3 Women (1977)
41. Carrie (1976)
42. Katherine (1975)
43. The Migrants (1974)
44. The Girls Of Huntington House (1973)
45. Ginger In The Morning (1973)
46. Badlands (1973)
47. Prime Cut (1972)

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