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Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (born December 25, 1949 in Quitman, Texas) is an Academy Award winning American actress and singer.

Family History

She was born to Edwin Arnold Spacek and Virginia Spilman. Her paternal grandfather, Arnold A. Spacek, was the son of a Moravian father, Frank J. Spacek, and a German mother, Julie Gloekner (both of whom had immigrated to Texas). Her paternal grandmother, Mary Cervenka, was of Czech descent. Spacek's mother is of English descent.

She is a cousin of actor Rip Torn, whose mother's maiden name was Thelma Spacek.

Career

Spacek started out in the entertainment business thanks to Torn, who was already an actor and through him she was able to enroll in Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio and then the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City. Her first credited role was in the 1972 movie Prime Cut
, in which she played a young woman sold into white slavery.

The first role that brought her notice was the 1973 film Badlands, where she met art director Jack Fisk, whom she would later marry. Their daughter Schuyler Fisk is a movie actress. Spacek is also an ardent crusader for women's rights.

Her breakout role was in Carrie
, in 1976, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She eventually won the Oscar in 1980 for Coal Miner's Daughter
, in which she played country music star Loretta Lynn.

She was also nominated for a Grammy Award for her singing on that film's soundtrack album. She was most recently seen in The Ring 2 as Samara Morgan's birth mother, Evelyn.

Academy awards and nominations

2002 Nominated In the Bedroom
1987 Nominated Crimes of the Heart
1985 Nominated The River
1983 Nominated Missing
1981 Won Coal Miner's Daughter
1977 Nominated Carrie

Filmography

North Country
(2005)
The Ring 2 (2005)
Tuck Everlasting
(2002)
Last Call (2002)
Midwives (2001)
In the Bedroom
(2001)
Songs in Ordinary Time (2000)
The Straight Story
(1999)
Blast from the Past (1999)
Affliction (1997)
If These Walls Could Talk
Beyond the Call (1996)
Streets of Laredo (1995)
The Grass Harp (1995)
The Good Old Boys (1995)
Trading Mom (1994)
A Place for Annie (1994)
A Private Matter (1992)
JFK
(1991)
Hard Promises (1991)
The Long Walk Home (1990)
Crimes of the Heart
(1986)
'night, Mother (1986)
Violets Are Blue (1986)
Marie (1985)
The River (1984)
The Man with Two Brains
(1983)
Missing (1982)
Raggedy Man (1981)
Heart Beat (1980)
Coal Miner's Daughter
(1980)
Verna, USO Girl (1978)
Welcome to L.A. (1976)
3 Women (1977)
Carrie
(1976)
Katherine a.k.a. The Radical (1975)
The Migrants (1974)
Badlands (1973)
Ginger in the Morning
(1974)
The Girls of Huntington House (1973)
Prime Cut
(1972)
Trash
(1970)
Phantom of the Paradise
(Costume Designer)
Death Game (art director)

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