Sissy Spacek Net Worth

Sissy Spacek's Quotes

• [on her daughter Schuyler Fisk becoming an actress] The business has been good to me. I would be a hypocrite if I tried to convince her not to do this.
• [Parade magazine, April 1, 2001] I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.
• [on why she did not want to appear in The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)] I asked if they could use some backflashes instead. I enjoyed the sequel, but hated my role in the first film. I was awful.
• My cousin, Rip Torn, persuaded me not to change my name. You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.
• There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.

Interesting Facts about Sissy Spacek

1. "Sissy" is a nickname given by her brothers when she was growing up.
2. Not only did she win an Oscar for her performance in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), but she was nominated for a Grammy for her rendition of the title song in the category Best Country Vocal Performance, Female.
3. Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1976" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 28.
4. Was the first choice for the role of Emma Greenway in Terms of Endearment (1983), which went to Debra Winger.
5. Decided to skip college after her older brother, Robbie, died at 18 years of age in 1967 from leukemia during her senior year in high school. She decided life was way too short to waste it in four years of college.
6. Lives on 300 acre farmland named "Beau Val" near Charlottesville, Virginia.
7. Her brother, Edwin Spacek, is a music industry consultant in Austin, Texas.
8. Was Homecoming Queen of her Senior Class in High School.
9. Godmother of Rebecca Taylor.
10. Her performance as Carrie White in Carrie (1976) is ranked #63 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
11. Frequently works with Tommy Lee Jones, having appeared with him in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), JFK (1991), and The Good Old Boys (1995). Separately, they have also each appeared in films in the Lonesome Dove series. Jones appeared in the original Lonesome Dove (1989), while Spacek appeared in Streets of Laredo (1995).
12. Is first cousin to actor Rip Torn and third cousin to actor Cillian De Ros.
13. She won an Oscar for playing Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), making her one of 18 actors to win the Award for playing a real person who was still alive at the evening of the Award ceremony (as of 2015). The other seventeen actors and their respective performances are: Spencer Tracy for playing Father Edward Flanagan in Jongensstad (1938), Gary Cooper for playing Alvin C. York in Sergeant York (1941), Patty Duke for playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962), Jason Robards for playing Ben Bradlee in All the President's Men (1976), Robert De Niro for playing Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980), Jeremy Irons for playing Claus Von Bullow in Reversal of Fortune (1990), Susan Sarandon for playing Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking (1995), Geoffrey Rush for playing David Helfgott in Shine (1996), Julia Roberts for playing Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich (2000), Jim Broadbent for playing John Bayley in Iris (2001), Jennifer Connelly for playing Alicia Nash in A Beautiful Mind (2001), Helen Mirren for playing Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006), Sandra Bullock for playing Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side (2009), Melissa Leo for playing Alice Eklund-Ward in The Fighter (2010), Christian Bale for playing Dickie Eklund in The Fighter (2010), Meryl Streep for playing Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011) and Eddie Redmayne for playing Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014).
14. Her Best Actress Oscar nomination for Carrie (1976) is notable in that performances in horror films are rarely recognized by the academy.
15. In 1969, under the pseudonym of "Rainbo", she recorded a novelty song about John Lennon titled, "John, You've Gone Too Far This Time".
16. She was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in March 2001 in Austin, Texas.
17. During her audition for Carrie (1976), she wore a dress that her mother forced her to wear to a party when she was in the seventh grade.
18. She has won four New York Film Critics Circle Awards, second to Meryl Streep, who's won the most with five. Sissy's wins are for 3 Women (1977), Best Supporting Actress; Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Best Actress; Crimes of the Heart (1986), Best Actress; and In the Bedroom (2001), Best Actress.
19. Born at 12:03 AM (CST).
20. According to her commentary on the DVD of Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), she initially aspired to be a singer and auditioned for Decca Records. The label liked her but told her she was too similar to another artist they had on their label. That artist was Loretta Lynn.