Sissy Spacek

Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (born December 25, 1949 in Quitman, Texas) is an Academy Award winning American actress and singer. She was born to Edwin Arnold Spacek and Virginia Spilman. Her paternal grandfather, Arnold A. Spacek, was the son of a Moravian father, Frank J. Spacek, and a German mother, Julie Gloekner (both of whom had immigrated to Texas). Her paternal grandmother, Mary Cervenka, was of Czech descent. Spacek's mother is of English descent.

Filmography

• Tuck Everlasting
• Last Call
• Midwives
• In the Bedroom
• Songs in Ordinary Time
• The Straight Story
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• Blast from the Past
• 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
• Hard Promises
• The Long Walk Home
• Crimes of the Heart
• 'night, Mother
• Violets Are Blue
• Marie
• The River
• The Man with Two Brains
• Missing
• Raggedy Man
• Heart Beat
• Coal Miner's Daughter
• Verna, USO Girl
• Welcome to L.A.
• 3 Women
• Carrie
• Katherine a.k.a. The Radical
• The Migrants
• Badlands
• Ginger in the Morning
• The Girls of Huntington House
• Prime Cut
• Trash
• Phantom of the Paradise (set dresser)
• Death Game (art director)