Celebrity Biographies
Sissy spacek
Perhaps because of her peculiar physique, she has not become a big star, but Sissy Spacek has an increasingly solid filmography. Six Oscar nominations and a statuette endorse the trajectory of this actress, who is distinguished by her professionalism and the illusion that she transmits in each new film.
In Quinlan, a small town in Texas, Mary Elizabeth Spacek was born on Christmas Day 1949. She spent an ideal childhood, playing in nature, climbing trees and riding horses. Her two older brothers gave her the nickname Sissy, which would become her stage name. “In Texas they call everyone Sissy or Bubba,” the actress said in an interview. Unlike the character that made her famous, the discriminated Carrie, Sissy was very popular, chosen Queen of the End of Year Party, and not to humiliate her, as in the movie.
The daughter of two theater enthusiasts, her parents encouraged her to study dramatic art from a very young age. “My mother always told me that someone would eventually notice my talent,” Sissy recalls. So she moved to New York, to enroll in the Actor’s Studio, the most famous acting school in the world. There they went to a production company, looking for a young woman to play a role in Carne Viva , and they chose Sissy, who thus made her film debut. Her first starring role was as Holly Sargis, the chilling assassin in Terrence Malick ‘s cult film Badlands . While she was filming she fell in love with an art director, Jack Fish, a friend and collaborator of David Lynch .. Having a stable family was more important to Sissy than her career, so she married Jack in 1974. She would soon find success with Carrie , Brian de Palma ‘s adaptation of Stephen King ‘s first novel . The actress’s quirky appearance was ideal for playing Carrie White, a girl with telekinetic powers, ostracized by her peers who consider her some kind of witch, and repressed by her overbearing mother. Her effort was rewarded with an Oscar nomination.
Shortly after he took the statuette. It was because of her recreation of a real character, country singer Loretta Lynn, in Michael Apted ‘s I Want To Be Free . The actress also sang the film’s theme song, which earned her a Grammy nomination.
Especially poignant was her portrayal of a wife bent on finding her husband, a journalist kidnapped during the military coup in Chile, with the help of her father-in-law Jack Lemmon . She was in Disappeared , a magnificent film by the committed Costa-Gavras. In When the River Rises , the actress was a co-star with Mel Gibson .
In the 1990s, the actress specialized in high-end supporting roles, in select titles such as JFK , The Grass Harp , Affliction , and A True Story . She was recently nominated for an Oscar again for Ella in the Room , in which she played a long-suffering mother whose son falls in love with an older woman. Her latest work, A Home at the End of the World , adapts a novel by Michael Cunningham ( The Hours). Currently Sissy Spacek lives on a large ranch in Virginia, where she, according to her neighbors, can often be seen riding a horse. The Fish-Spacek couple have two children, Schuyler and Madison, dedicated to acting. Schuyler could be seen in Orange County .