Sissy Spacek Biography and Wikipedia
A native of Quitman, Texas Sissy Spacek born Mary Elizabeth Spacek is an American actress and singer. She is a recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for four British Academy Film Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. Spacek was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011.
Sissy Spacek Age
Mary Elizabeth Spacek is 72 years old as of 2021. She was born on December 25th, 1949 in Quitman, Texas, United States.
Sissy Spacek Height
Sissy measures a standing height of 5 feet 3 inches tall which is equivalent to 1.60 meters tall.
Sissy Spacek Young
At age six, Spacek performed on stage for the first time in a local talent show. Although she was born Mary Elizabeth, she was always called Sissy by her brothers, which led to her stage name. Moreover, she attended Quitman High School and was named homecoming queen at her senior prom.
Sissy Spacek Family
Spacek is the loving daughter of Virginia Frances, her mother (1971-1981), and Edwin Arnold Spacek Sr., her father who is a county agricultural agent. Her father was of three-quarters Czech (Moravian) and one-quarter Sudeten-German ancestry.
Her paternal grandparents were Mary and Arnold A. Spacek (who served as mayor of Granger, Texas, in Williamson County). Actor Rip Torn was a first cousin; his mother Thelma Torn was an elder sister of Sissy’s father Edwin. Spacek’s mother, who was of English and Irish descent, was from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
Sissy Spacek Married and Husband | Spacek Daughter | Kids
In 1974, she got married to the production designer and art director Jack Fisk. The couple met on the set of Badlands. The couple has been blessed with two daughters. Her first daughter was born on July 8th, 1982, and named Schuyler and Madison Fisk, who was born on September 21st, 1988.
Schuyler has followed in her mother’s footsteps as both an actress and a singer. Spacek and her family moved to a farm near Charlottesville, Virginia in 1982. In 1974, she got married to the production designer and art director Jack Fisk. The couple met on the set of Badlands.
The couple has been blessed with two daughters. Her first daughter was born on July 8th, 1982, and named Schuyler and Madison Fisk, who was born on September 21st, 1988. Schuyler has followed in her mother’s footsteps as both an actress and a singer. Spacek and her family moved to a farm near Charlottesville, Virginia in 1982.
Sissy Spacek Movies and Tv Shows
Films
The following are movies that Sissy has been featured in:
- 1972 Prime Cut
- 1973 Badlands
- 1974 Ginger in the Morning
- 1974 Phantom of the Paradise
- 1976 Carrie
- 1976 Welcome to L.A.
- 1977 3 Women
- 1980 Coal Miner’s Daughter
- 1980 Heart Beat
- 1981 Raggedy Man
- 1982 Missing
- 1983 The Man with Two Brains
- 1984 The River
- 1985 Marie
- 1986 Violets Are Blue
- 1986 ‘night, Mother
- 1986 Crimes of the Heart
- 1990 The Long Walk Home
- 1991 Hard Promises
- 1991 JFK
- 1994 Trading Mom
- 1995 The Grass Harp
- 1997 Affliction
- 1999 Blast from the Past
- 1999 The Straight Story
- 2001 In the Bedroom
- 2001 Midwives
- 2002 Tuck Everlasting
- 2004 A Home at the End of the World
- 2005 Nine Lives
- 2005 The Ring Two
- 2005 North Country
- 2005 An American Haunting
- 2007 Gray Matters
- 2007 Hot Rod
- 2007 Pictures of Hollis Woods
- 2008 Lake City
- 2008 Four Christmases
- 2009 Get Low
- 2011 The Help
- 2012 Deadfall
- 2016 River of Gold
- 2018 The Old Man & the Gun
Tv Shows
The following are movies that Sissy has been featured in:
- 1973 Love, American Style
- 1973 The Girls of Huntington House
- 1973 The Waltons
- 1973 The Rookies
- 1974 The Migrants
- 1975 Katherine
- 1978 Verna: USO Girl
- 1992 A Private Matter
- 1992 Shelley Duvall’s Bedtime Stories
- 1994 A Place for Annie
- 1995 The Good Old Boys
- 1995 Streets of Laredo
- 1996 Beyond the Call
- 1996 If These Walls Could Talk
- 2000 Songs in Ordinary Time
- 2002 Last Call
- 2009 Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People
- 2010 Gimme Shelter
- 2010–2011 Big Love
- 2015–2017 Bloodline
- 2018 Castle Rock
- 2018 Homecoming
- 2022 Night Sky
Sissy Spacek Net Worth
Spacek has made a great fortune from her career. She has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Sissy Spacek Instagram
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