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Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (born December 25,
1949 in Quitman, Texas) is an Academy Award
winning United States|American actor|actress and
singer of Czech Republic|Czech descent. Her
cousin, Rip Torn, was already in the entertainment
business, and through him, she was able to enroll
in Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio and then the Lee
Strasberg Institute in New York, New York|New
York.  Her first credited role was in the 1972
movie Prime Cut, in which she played a young woman
sold into white slavery. The first role that
brought her notice was the 1973 film Badlands
(movie)|Badlands, where she met art director Jack
Fisk, whom she would later marry. Their daughter
Schuyler Fisk is a movie actress. Spacek is also
an ardent crusader for women's liberation|women's
lib.

Her breakout role was in Carrie, in 1976, for
which she was nominated for the Academy Award for
Best Actress.  She eventually won the
Academy_award|Oscar in 1980 for Coal Miner's
Daughter|Coal Miner's Daughter.  She was also
nominated for a 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 (movie)|The River
*1983 Nominated Missing
*1981 Won Coal Miner's Daughter|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 (movie)|Blast from the Past
*Affliction (1997 movie)|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 (film)|JFK
*Hard Promises
*The Long Walk Home
*Crimes of the Heart
*Night, Mother|'night, Mother
*Violets Are Blue
*Marie (movie)|Marie
*The River (movie)|The River
*The Man with Two Brains
*Missing (movie)|Missing
*Raggedy Man
*Heart Beat
*Coal Miner's Daughter|Coal Miner's Daughter
*Verna, USO Girl
*Welcome to L.A.
*3 Women
*Carrie
*Katherine (movie)|Katherine
*The Migrants
*Badlands (movie)|Badlands
*Ginger in the Morning
*The Girls of Huntington House
*Prime Cut
*Trash

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

==External Links==
* imdb name|id=0000651|name=Sissy Spacek