Sissy Spacek is an American actress and an Academy-Award-winning personality well known for her roles in , , and .
Sissy was born on , in Quitman, Texas. She is the daughter of Virginia Frances and Edwin Arnold Spacek Sr. She was nicknamed Sissy by her brothers, and she made her first stage appearance at the age of 6. She attended Quitman High School and was titled homecoming queen at her senior prom.
Spacek then moved to New York City to pursue her career as a singer in , at the tender age of 17. There she started living with her cousin, actor Rip Torn and his wife Geraldine Page. She recorded her first single using the name of Rainbo, where she teases John Lennon for appearing nude for the album cover along with his wife Yoko Ono.
Sissy didn't have much success with her musical career and then decided to focus on acting, and got enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. She first appeared as an extra in a film by Andy Warhol, and then made her debut in Lee Marvin's thriller (1972). In the film, she plays a teenager who gets abducted by a white slavery ring. Sissy then appeared in.
In she got her breakthrough role in , a Brian De Palma’s teen horror classic. In the movie, she plays the role of an emotionally disturbed gifted teenage girl, which gained her attention from the critics and audiences. She also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her role.
She has also acted in several other movies and TV shows like , Her biopic where she portrays the role of Loretta Lynn earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Spacek also starred in her husband's , and her other movies include , and . In she portrayed the role of a suicidal woman in
Her other notable works include , , , , ,
While working on , Spacek met her husband Jack Fisk, who worked as a production designer. The couple got married in and reside at the Virginia farm, Beau Val. They have two daughters, Schuyler and Madison. She is currently 68 years of age and was born in the U.S, she is of American nationality and of white ethnicity.
Sissy Spacek is currently estimated to have a net worth of $15 million.
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