Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (born December 25, 1949 in Quitman, Texas) is an Academy Award winning American actress and singer. She was natural to Edwin Arnold Spacek & Virginia Spilman. Her agnatic grandad, Arnold The. Spacek, was the boy of a Moravian father, Frank J. Spacek, & the German mother, Julie Gloekner (both of whom got immigrated to Texas). Her agnate grandma, Mary Cervenka, was of Czech descent. Spacek's mother is of English descent.

Spacek began call at the amusement business thanks to her full cousin, Rip Torn, who was already an actor. Across him, she was respire to enroll within Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio and then the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York. Her number 1 credited role was in the 1972 movie Prime Cut, in which she played the miss sold into white slavery. A foremost role that brought her notice was a 1973 film Badlands, where she met art director Jack Fisk, whom she would later marry. Their girl Schuyler Fisk is a movie actress. Spacek is likewise an ardent crusader for women's lib.

Her gaolbreak role was within Carrie, in 1976, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She yet won a Oscar in 1980 for ''Coal Miner's Daughter''. She was as well nominated for the Grammy Award for her singing on that film's soundtrack album.

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
Tuck Everlasting Last Call Midwives In the Bedroom Songs in Ordinary Time The Straight Story The Rage: Carrie 2 Blast from the Past Affliction If These Walls Could Talk Beyond the Call Streets of Laredo The Grass Harp The Good Old Boys Trading Mom A Place for Annie A Private Matter JFK Hard Promises The Long Walk Home Crimes of the Heart 'night, Mother Violets Are Blue Marie The River The Man with Two Brains Missing Raggedy Man Heart Beat Coal Miner's Daughter Verna, USO Girl Welcome to L.A. 3 Women Carrie Katherine a.k.a. The Radical The Migrants Badlands Ginger in the Morning The Girls of Huntington House Prime Cut Trash''

Phantom of the Paradise (set dresser) Death Game (art director)