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Dec 10, 2023 · Shirley Anne Field was a British television and film actress. She was known to U.S. audiences for her roles on Santa Barbara and Murder, She Wrote.
She also received three Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and nominations for a Tony Award and for two British Academy Film Awards.
Shirley Anne Field (born Shirley Broomfield; 27 June 1936 – 10 December 2023) was an English actress who performed on stage, film and television from 1955 until her death. She was prominent during the British New Wave.
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- NORMA RAE (1979) Director: Martin Ritt. Writer: Irving Ravetch ,Harriet Frank Jr. Starring Ron Liebman, Beau Bridges, Pat Hingle. Nobody in the film business seemed to want to play the title role in “Norma Rae.”
- PLACES IN THE HEART (1984) Director and writer: Robert Benton. Starring John Malkovitch, Danny Glover, Lindsay Crouse. Unfortunately “Places in the Heart” will be forever linked with Field’s emotional Oscar speech where she proclaimed “you like me” and then was endlessly mocked by comedians for years afterwards.
- STEEL MAGNOLIAS (1989) Director: Herbert Ross. Writer: Eric Roth. Starring Shirley MacLaine, Dolly Parton, Julia Roberts. This beloved film casts Field as one of a group of friends who frequently discuss life’s ups and downs while they are getting their hair done in a salon owned by the Dolly Parton character in the rural south.
- LINCOLN (2012) Director: Steven Spielberg. Writer: Eric Roth. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Tommy Lee Jones, David Strathairn. After a long absence from the Academy Awards Field returned to the competition with her work as Mary Todd Lincoln opposite Daniel Day-Lewis’ Oscar winning turn as Abraham Lincoln.
She starred opposite Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Steve McQueen, Michael Caine, Daniel Day-Lewis and Ned Beatty in such classic films as The Entertainer, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The War Lover, Alfie, My Beautiful Laundrette and Hear My Song.
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She had roles in films like My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Shag (1989), Getting It Right (1989), The Rachel Papers (1989), Hear My Song (1991), UFO (1993), Taking Liberty (1993), Loving Deadly (1994), and At Risk (1994).
