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Mary Elizabeth Spacek (born December 25, 1949 in Quitman, Texas), known professionally as Sissy Spacek, is an American actor, best known for her roles as the titular ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'' and Loretta Lynn in ''Film/CoalMinersDaughter''. She is married to production designer and art director Jack Fisk since 1974 and they have two daughters, Schuyler Fisk (born in 1982) and Madison Fisk (born in 1988).

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Mary Elizabeth Spacek (born December 25, 1949 in Quitman, Texas), known professionally as Sissy Spacek, is an American actor, actress and singer, best known for her roles as the titular ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'' and Loretta Lynn in ''Film/CoalMinersDaughter''. She is married to production designer and art director Jack Fisk since 1974 and they have two daughters, Schuyler Fisk (born in 1982) and Madison Fisk (born in 1988).



* TheCastShowOff: Not only does she do her own singing in ''Film/CoalMinersDaughter'', but she did all the singing live on set.

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* ''Film/{{Badlands}}'' (1973)
* ''Film/{{Carrie|1976}}'' (1976)
* ''Film/ThreeWomen'' (1977)
* ''Film/CoalMinersDaughter'' (1980)
* ''Film/RaggedyMan'' (1981)
* ''Film/Missing1982''
* ''Film/TheManWithTwoBrains'' (1983) ([[CelebrityVoiceActor voice only]])
* ''Theatre/CrimesOfTheHeart'' (1986)
* ''Film/{{JFK}}'' (1991)
* ''Film/BlastFromThePast'' (1999)
* ''Film/TheStraightStory'' (1999)
* ''Film/InTheBedroom'' (2001)
* ''Literature/TuckEverlasting'' (2002)
* ''Film/TheRingTwo'' (2005)
* ''Film/NorthCountry'' (2005)
* ''Film/AnAmericanHaunting'' (2006)
* ''Film/GrayMatters'' (2006)
* ''Series/BigLove'' (2006-11)
* ''Film/GetLow'' (2009)
* ''Film/TheHelp'' (2011)
* ''Series/{{Bloodline}}'' (2015-17)
* ''Film/TheOldManAndTheGun'' (2018)
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* ''Series/LoveAmericanStyle'' (1973) as Terri
* ''Series/TheWaltons'' Episodes: (1973) as Sarah Jane Simmons (Episodes: "The Townie" and "The Odyssey."
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* ''Film/{{Badlands}}'' (1973)
(1973) as Holly Sargis
* ''Series/TheRookies'' (1973) as Barbara Tabnor
* ''Film/{{Carrie|1976}}'' (1976)
(1976) as Carrie White
* ''Film/ThreeWomen'' (1977)
(1977) as Mildred "Pinky" Rose
* ''Film/CoalMinersDaughter'' (1980)
(1980) as Loretta Lynn
* ''Film/RaggedyMan'' (1981)
(1981) as Nita Longley
* ''Film/Missing1982''
''[[Film/Missing1982 missing.]]'' (1982) as Beth Horman
* ''Film/TheManWithTwoBrains'' (1983) as Anne Uumellmahaye ([[CelebrityVoiceActor voice only]])
* ''Film/TheRiver'' (1984) as Mae Garvey
* ''Theatre/CrimesOfTheHeart'' (1986)
(1986) as Babe Magrath
* ''Film/{{JFK}}'' (1991)
(1991) as Liz Garrison
* ''Film/TradingMom'' (1994) as Mrs. Martin
* ''Film/{{Affliction}}'' (1997) as Margie Fogg
* ''Film/BlastFromThePast'' (1999)
(1999) as Helen Webber
* ''Film/TheStraightStory'' (1999)
(1999) as Rose Straight
* ''Film/InTheBedroom'' (2001)
(2001) as Ruth Fowler
* ''Literature/TuckEverlasting'' (2002)
(2002) as Mae Tuck
* ''Film/TheRingTwo'' (2005)
(2005) as Evelyn Borden
* ''Film/NorthCountry'' (2005)
(2005) as Alice Aimes
* ''Film/AnAmericanHaunting'' (2006)
(2006) as Lucy Bell
* ''Film/GrayMatters'' (2006)
(2006) as Dr. Sydney
* ''Film/HotRod'' (2007) as Marie Powell
* ''Film/FourChristmases'' (2008) as Paula
* ''Film/GetLow'' (2009) as Mattie Darrow
* ''Series/BigLove'' (2006-11)
* ''Film/GetLow'' (2009)
(2010) as Marilyn Densham
* ''Film/TheHelp'' (2011)
(2011) as Mrs. Walters
* ''Series/{{Bloodline}}'' (2015-17)
(2015-17) as Sally Rayburn
* ''Film/TheOldManAndTheGun'' (2018)
(2018) as Jewel
* ''Series/CastleRock'' (2018)
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* ''Series/TheWaltons'' (1972-81)"The Townie" and "The Odyssey."

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Mary Elizabeth Spacek (born December 25, 1949 in Quitman, Texas), known professionally as Sissy Spacek, is an American actress, best known for her roles as the titular ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'' and Loretta Lynn in ''Film/CoalMinersDaughter''. She is married to production designer and art director Jack Fisk since 1974 and they have two daughters, Schuyler Fisk (born in 1982) and Madison Fisk (born in 1988).

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Mary Elizabeth Spacek (born December 25, 1949 in Quitman, Texas), known professionally as Sissy Spacek, is an American actress, actor, best known for her roles as the titular ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'' and Loretta Lynn in ''Film/CoalMinersDaughter''. She is married to production designer and art director Jack Fisk since 1974 and they have two daughters, Schuyler Fisk (born in 1982) and Madison Fisk (born in 1988).



* StuntCasting:[[invoked]] For ''Film/TheRingTwo'', they wanted to cast a veteran actress of horror films to play Samara's mother Evelyn. Sissy was chosen based on her iconic role for ''Carrie''.

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* StuntCasting:[[invoked]] For ''Film/TheRingTwo'', they wanted to cast a veteran actress actor of horror films to play Samara's mother Evelyn. Sissy was chosen based on her iconic role for ''Carrie''.
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* OneHitWonder: With "Lonely but Only for You", from her sole studio album ''Hangin' Up My Heart'', released in 1983 on Creator/AtlanticRecords.
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* SignificantBirthDate: Her birthday is December 25, Christmas Day.
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Mary Elizabeth Spacek (born December 25, 1949), known professionally as Sissy Spacek, is an American actress, best known for her roles as the titular ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'' and Loretta Lynn in ''Film/CoalMinersDaughter''. She is married to production designer and art director Jack Fisk since 1974 and they have two daughters, Schuyler Fisk (born in 1982) and Madison Fisk (born in 1988).

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Mary Elizabeth Spacek (born December 25, 1949), 1949 in Quitman, Texas), known professionally as Sissy Spacek, is an American actress, best known for her roles as the titular ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'' and Loretta Lynn in ''Film/CoalMinersDaughter''. She is married to production designer and art director Jack Fisk since 1974 and they have two daughters, Schuyler Fisk (born in 1982) and Madison Fisk (born in 1988).
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** Creator/DavidCronenberg had originally wanted Spacek for the lead role in ''Film/Rabid'' (1977) but producer Ivan Reitman turned her down due to her Texas accent.

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** Creator/DavidCronenberg had originally wanted Spacek for the lead role in ''Film/Rabid'' (1977) Rabid but producer Ivan Reitman turned her down due to her Texas accent.
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** Creator/DavidCronenberg had originally wanted Spacek for the lead role in ''Film/Rabid'', but producer Ivan Reitman turned her down due to her Texas accent.

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** Creator/DavidCronenberg had originally wanted Spacek for the lead role in ''Film/Rabid'', ''Film/Rabid'' (1977) but producer Ivan Reitman turned her down due to her Texas accent.
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** DavidCronenberg had originally wanted Spacek for the lead role in ''Film/Rabid'', but producer Ivan Reitman turned her down due to her Texas accent.

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** DavidCronenberg Creator/DavidCronenberg had originally wanted Spacek for the lead role in ''Film/Rabid'', but producer Ivan Reitman turned her down due to her Texas accent.
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** DavidCronenburg had originally wanted Spacek for the lead role in ''Film/Rabid'', but producer Ivan Reitman turned her down due to her Texas accent.

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** Producers of ''Film/TheRageCarrie2'' offered her a cameo but she declined - though she gave permission for them to use clips of her from the first film. She later said she saw the film and liked it.

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** Producers of ''Film/TheRageCarrie2'' offered her a cameo but she declined - though she gave permission for them to use clips of her from the first film. She later said she saw the film and liked it.it.
** DavidCronenburg had originally wanted Spacek for the lead role in ''Film/Rabid'', but producer Ivan Reitman turned her down due to her Texas accent.

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* AbilityOverAppearance:[[invoked]] Sissy was nearly rejected for being too pretty to play Carrie (who is described as chubby, mousy-haired and covered in acne in the book). For her audition, she didn't wash her face, rubbed vaseline into her hair and wore a dress her mother had made for her as a child. This was enough to convince Brian De Palma she could play a social outcast. She of course got an Oscar nomination for the role.
* ActorAllusion: There's a scene in ''Film/BlastFromThePast'' where she's illuminated by a red spotlight - as a clear nod to ''Carrie''.
* ActorSharedBackground:[[invoked]] She's from Quitman, Texas like her character in ''Film/ThreeWomen''.
* AdvertisedExtra: In ''Film/TheRingTwo'' she's given prominent billing, despite only three minutes of screen time.
* TheCastShowOff: Not only does she do her own singing in ''Film/CoalMinersDaughter'', but she did all the singing live on set.
* CreatorCouple: She and her husband, art director Jack Fisk, have worked on eight films together.
* DawsonCasting:[[invoked]]
** She was twenty-six when she played the seventeen-year-old Carrie White.
** Also in ''Badlands'', she was twenty-two when her character was fifteen.
* DoingItForTheArt:[[invoked]] How she describes her initial roles in the 70s.
--> "When I started out in independent films in the early 70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought."



* MethodActing:[[invoked]]
** When filming ''Carrie'', she didn't fraternise with her cast mates, to better understand Carrie's fear and isolation. She also studied images of people being punished for their sins, and made sure she ended every scene in one of those positions.
** For ''Film/CoalMinersDaughter'', she followed the real Loretta Lynn on tour and studied how she performed.
** To prepare for ''Film/InTheBedroom'', she decorated the house her character lives in herself.
* RealitySubtext:[[invoked]] As noted above, she was originally pursuing a career in country music, and auditioned for Decca Records. She was turned down for being too similar to another artist they had on their label - Loretta Lynn. As in the woman she played in ''Film/CoalMinersDaughter''.



* StageNames: Her birth name is Mary Elizabeth Spacek, but Sissy was a nickname from her brothers.



* ThoseTwoActors: She frequently worked with Creator/TommyLeeJones, Creator/DonaldSutherland or Robert Duvall in the past.

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* StuntCasting:[[invoked]] For ''Film/TheRingTwo'', they wanted to cast a veteran actress of horror films to play Samara's mother Evelyn. Sissy was chosen based on her iconic role for ''Carrie''.
* ThoseTwoActors: She frequently worked with Creator/TommyLeeJones, Creator/DonaldSutherland or Robert Duvall in the past.past.
* TimeShiftedActor: Creator/MaryElizabethWinstead plays the younger version of her in ''Film/TheRingTwo''.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:[[invoked]]
** Joint casting sessions were held for both ''Carrie'' and ''Film/ANewHope'' - so Sissy also auditioned for Princess Leia. And Carrie Fisher also auditioned for ''Carrie''. It was a long standing rumor that they got their respective roles because Carrie Fisher refused to do nude scenes, while Sissy Spacek was willing to. These rumors were put to rest when Carrie Fisher said she would have had no problem with the nudity.
** She auditioned for ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise'', but the role went to Jessica Harper. Her husband Jack Fisk was art director on this film, so she worked as set dresser to help him. According to her, she was so bad she ruined a day's worth of filming.
** She auditioned for the role of Thelma Dickinson in ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'' that ended up going to Geena Davis. She apparently thought the script was terrible.
** Producers of ''Film/TheRageCarrie2'' offered her a cameo but she declined - though she gave permission for them to use clips of her from the first film. She later said she saw the film and liked it.
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