Multi-award-winning actor Sally Field has been named the 58th recipient of SAG-AFTRA’s highest tribute: the SAG Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment.
Field will be presented with the honor at the 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony, which will be broadcast live on Netflix’s YouTube channel, YouTube.com/Netflix, Sunday, February 26 at 8 p.m.
ET / 5 p.m. PT from the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles. “Sally is an amazing actor with an enormous range and an uncanny ability to embody any character,” said SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher. “I joyfully watched her early career when she portrayed Gidget and the Flying Nun and then, in ever more challenging roles, as Sybil and Norma Rae.
She never stopped being extraordinary, including as recently as Winning Time in which she was simply sublime as Jessie Buss. “She has an enduring career because she is authentic in her performance and always projects likability and humanity – she just connects.
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