Sissy Spacek

Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (Quitman (Texas), 25 december 1949) is American actress and singer.



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[hide] *1 Biography  ==Biography[ Edit] == ===Youth[ Edit] === Spacek was born in Quitman, Texas, the daughter of Virginia Frances and Edwin Arnold Spacek, SR.[1]. Her paternal grandparents were of Moravian/Czech/Bohemiandescent. [2]  Her mother was coming from the Valley of the Rio Grande in Texas. Spacek was given the nickname Sissy by her older brothers. She was greatly affected by the death of her 18-year-old brother, Robbie, in 1967. Thereupon she decided that life was too short to waste to higher education, and they moved to New York City to acting. ===Career[ Edit] === Spacek started out as a country singer, she took a single ("John, You've gone Too Far This Time", about John Lennon) under the name ' Rainbo. " With the help of her cousin, actor Rip Torn, Actors Studio she could enroll in Lee Strasberg 's and then the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City. Her first film role was in the film Prime Cutfrom 1972, in which she played a young woman that is actually sold as a sex slave. The first role with which they noted was in the film Badlands of Terrence Malick from1973, where she also met Director Jack Fisk, with whom she would later marry.
 * 1.1 Youth
 * 1.2 Career
 * 1.3 Private
 * 2 Filmography
 * 3 References
 * 4 external link

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">They broke through in 1976 with the lead role in Carrie by Brian De Palma, in which she played a little popular and emotionally confused teenager with telekinetic abilities.They received a nomination for the Academy Award for best actress that was not cashed. They got this Oscar in 1980 for Coal Miner's Daughter, in which she plays country star Loretta Lynn . She got for her singing performance also a Grammy Award. This brought them yourself from a countryalbum.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 2001, she was nominated again for an Oscar for her role in In the Bedroom by Todd Field. Her portrayal of the grieving Ruth Fowler got favorable reviews.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 2011 got Spacek a star on the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame. ===Private<span class="mw-editsection" len="324" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Spacek married production designer Jack Fisk in 1974. They had two daughters: Schuyler Elizabeth and Madison Fisk. Schuyler Fisk also acts in movies. Spacek lives with her family on a horse ranch nearCharlottesville (Virginia). She is an ardent crusader for women's rights. ==Filmography<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==