Palisadian Sally Field to Receive SAG Life Achievement Award

By SARAH SHMERLING | Editor-in-Chief

Multi-award-winning actress and Palisadian of more than a decade Sally Field will receive the 2022 Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award during a ceremony that will take place February 26 beginning at 5 p.m.

“With a career that has spanned over five decades, Sally Field is a two-time Academy Award- and a three-time Emmy Award-winning actress, who has portrayed dozens of iconic roles on both large and small screens,” according to a statement shared by SAG.

The annual award, which dates back to the 1960s and will be presented for the 58th time, is given by SAG’s National Honors and Tributes Committee for “outstanding achievement in fostering the finest ideals of the acting profession.”

Field, who was born in Pasadena and “raised in a show business family,” according to SAG, began her career in 1964 with a role in the television series “Gidget,” followed by a starring role in “The Flying Nun” in 1967 and three television series by the time she turned 25 years old.

“She received Emmy Awards for her title role in the landmark miniseries ‘Sybil,’ and for her performance as a bipolar mother on ‘ER,’” according to SAG. “For her role as Nora Walker on the ABC series ‘Brothers & Sisters,’ which ran from 2006 to 2011, she received an Emmy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and two Golden Globe nominations.”

Field was previously inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012, and was honored by former President Barack Obama in 2015 with the National Medal of Arts. She also received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2019.

“She has an enduring career because she is authentic in her performance and always projects likability and humanity—she just connects,” SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher shared in a statement. “That’s part of why she has sustained her massive fandom and incredibly rich and layered career. Sally is a massive star with a working actor’s ethos—just keep doing the work, being as good as you can. Every stage of an actor’s life brings different opportunities, and you just need to keep working. Sally does not stop and we hope she never does.”

Viewers can tune into the SAG Awards on February 26 via youtube.com/netflix.

Prior to the award ceremony, Field can be seen starring alongside fellow Palisadian Rita Moreno and Lily Tomlin—who have both received SAG Life Achievement Awards—as well as Jane Fonda and Tom Brady in “80 for Brady,” which is slated to release February 3.

The film follows the story of “a group of friends” who have “made it their life-long mission to go to the Super Bowl and meet NFL superstar Tom Brady.”