Sissy Spacek stars as Ellen Bergman in the Amazon Prime Video original series Homecoming.
Spacek has been one of the industry’s most respected actresses in a career spanning four decades. Her many honors include an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, five additional Oscar nominations, a Grammy nomination, three Golden Globe Awards and numerous critics’ awards.
Spacek first gained attention in the 1973 drama Badlands. In 1976, she earned her first Academy Award nomination for Carrie, based on Stephen King’s novel. The following year, she won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Three Women. In 1980, Spacek starred as Loretta Lynn in the biopic Coal Miner’s Daughter, winning an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award, among other honors. In 1981, Spacek received a Golden Globe nomination for Raggedy Man. She earned her third Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for 1982’s Missing and her fourth Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for 1984’s The River. In 1987, Spacek gained
Sissy Spacek stars as Ellen Bergman in the Amazon Prime Video original series Homecoming.
Spacek has been one of the industry’s most respected actresses in a career spanning four decades. Her many honors include an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, five additional Oscar nominations, a Grammy nomination, three Golden Globe Awards and numerous critics’ awards.
Spacek first gained attention in the 1973 drama Badlands. In 1976, she earned her first Academy Award nomination for Carrie, based on Stephen King’s novel. The following year, she won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Three Women. In 1980, Spacek starred as Loretta Lynn in the biopic Coal Miner’s Daughter, winning an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award, among other honors. In 1981, Spacek received a Golden Globe nomination for Raggedy Man. She earned her third Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for 1982’s Missing and her fourth Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for 1984’s The River. In 1987, Spacek gained her fifth Academy Award nomination and won another Golden Globe and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Crimes of the Heart.
Her recent film In the Bedroom earned her numerous mentions, including an Oscar nomination, a Golden Globe Award and two Screen Actors Guild nominations. Some of Spacek’s other film credits include A Home at the End of the World, The Straight Story, Affliction, JFK, The Long Walk Home, Hot Rod, Night, Mother, Four Christmases, Get Low, The Help, and most recently The Old Man and the Gun.
