Sissy Spacek
American actress and singer, Oscar winner for Coal Miner's Daughter.
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On December 25, 1949, in Quitman, Texas, Mary Elizabeth Spacek, who is called Sissy, was born.[1][2] Spacek has won an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.[3]
Key facts and history
Spacek was nicknamed Sissy by her two older brothers.[2] She made her first stage appearance at age six in a local talent show.[2] After high school, she moved to New York City in 1967 to pursue a singing career.[2] She received international attention for her breakthrough role in Badlands (1973).[4]
She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980).[5] In 1968, Spacek put out a single under the name "Rainbo" that poked fun at John Lennon for appearing nude on an album cover.[2] Spacek's initial movie role with a credit was Poppy in the 1972 action crime thriller Prime Cut.[5] Spacek and production designer Jack Fisk became husband and wife in 1974; their first meeting occurred while making Badlands.[4][2]
With Maryanne Vollers as co-author, Spacek released her memoir titled My Extraordinary Ordinary Life in 2012.[6]
What the cited sources add
The Biography.com editors state that Spacek worked as a singer before pursuing acting.[2] The same source notes that Spacek was crowned homecoming queen at Quitman High School.[2] The Biography.com editors report that Spacek insisted on singing all of Loretta Lynn's songs herself in Coal Miner's Daughter.[2] The Kirkus Reviews account describes Spacek's memoir as "overly detailed" and lacking a narrative arc.[7]
The StephenKing.com record confirms that Spacek narrated the 2005 audiobook of Carrie.[8]
References
- Wikipedia, "Sissy Spacek" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Sissy Spacek", Britannica.com; "Edwin A Spacek – US Social Security Death Index" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "Sissy Spacek", Bio. facts only, no text reused. biography.com
- Wikipedia, "Sissy Spacek" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Sissy Spacek Biography, Movies, & Facts", Encyclopedia Britannica (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Sissy Spacek" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Stated on Inside the Actors Studio, 2002; "Sissy Spacek's shy career", BBC.co.uk, February 7, 2002; Canby, "Badlands", NYT Critics' Pick, October 15, 1973; "Sissy Spacek", Bio (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Sissy Spacek" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Stated on Inside the Actors Studio, 2002 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Sissy Spacek" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "My Extraordinary Ordinary Life", Hyperion, May 2012; Douglass K. Daniel, "Quitman Native Sissy Spacek Writes Tender, Touching Book", Tyler Morning Telegraph, April 30, 2012; Chaney, "Book review: Sissy Spacek's "My Extraordinary Ordinary Life"", Denver Post; Stafford, "Nonfiction review: My Extraordinary Ordinary Life", timedispatch.com, May 6, 2012; Moser, "My Extraordinary Ordinary Life", The Austin Chronicle; Kirkus Reviews, "My Extraordinary Ordinary Life", kirkusreviews.com; Kirkus Reviews, "My Extraordinary Ordinary Life", kirkusrev en.wikipedia.org
- Kirkus Reviews, "My Extraordinary Ordinary Life", kirkusreviews.com. facts only, no text reused. kirkusreviews.com
- "StephenKing.com – Carrie". facts only, no text reused. stephenking.com
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