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Drama, Thriller. In Argentina, a visitor has something important to give Stella and Toni. A lot of your work has been about people embarking on spiritual quests or seeking answers to questions about the universe. Sissy Spacek. After playing the New Age mother of a put-upon husband (Vince Vaughn) in Four Christmases (2008), she was a desperate mother trying to protect her son (Troy Garity) from a ruthless drug dealer (Dave Matthews) in the little-seen crime drama, Lake City (2008). Guy Clark, the dean of Texas songwriters, struggles to write poetic songs while balancing a complicated marriage with wife Susanna, and a deep friendship with writer Townes Van Zandt, who Susanna forged a passionate dependence on. Eric calls Ozzy about an opportunity. She's got a wider range than any young actress I know. As Irene finds a new zest for life, Franklin becomes more suspicious of Jude. Drama, Fantasy, Horror. Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Director: "If you want to get a girl like that, you've got to start acting like a man," Bill tells Sam in the trailer. 56 min 31 min | 33 min Sissy Spacek: I'm good. Franklin gives Byron an unexpected gift. John faces what he must do to put the matter of Danny to rest. Henry gets a new client at Shawshank Prison. With her next two notable projects, the political drama Missing (1982), costarring Jack Lemmon, and The River (1984), costarring Mel Gibson, Spacek scored two more Oscar nods as Best Actress. He's a practical guy. Maybe it's the things that we do right here on Earth, like taking care of our babies, taking care of whoever, you know? John Leguizamo, TV-MA The loss almost tore them apart. Her other prominent films include Raggedy Man (1981), JFK (1991), Affliction (1997), The Straight Story (1999), Tuck Everlasting (2002), Nine Lives (2005), North Country (2005), Four Christmases (2008), Get Low (2010), The Help (2011), and The Old Man & the Gun (2018). Stars: Sissy Spacek, TV-14 Spacek's face is no more of an actor's instrument than it ever was, but given a human being to play, given a director concerned with acting, she makes that woman exist. On the small screen, Spacek was part of a strong ensemble cast in Rodrigo Garcia's Nine Lives (2005), an episodic drama which centered around nine different women thematically connected through their various travails. On Thursday, Vertical Entertainment released the first trailer for Sam & Kate, in which Hoffman, 85, and Spacek, 72, play parents to each of their real-life children: Jake Hoffman (whom the actor. Bill Skarsgrd, | I learned that from my husband. out of it. Carrie. Sissy Spacek was born in Quitman, Texas, the United States on December 25, 1949. This is an important question. maintain a position. Sissy Spacek Family Tree & History, Ancestry & Genealogy - FameChain Spacek's other Oscar-nominated roles include Missing (1982), The River (1984), Crimes of the Heart (1986), and In the Bedroom (2001). Sissy Spacek, best known for her outstanding performance in the 1976 Brian de Palma's film "Carrie," has two grown-up daughters who are also involved in the entertainment industry. Director: Heidi tries to make sense of her involvement at Homecoming. [9] After rubbing Vaseline in her hair and donning an old sailor dress her mother made for her as a child, she turned up at the audition with the odds against her, but won the part. For the last 20 years she's been orbiting around herself. She starred as the matriarch Sally Rayburn in the Netflix series Bloodline, which aired from 2015 to 2017; as Ruth Deaver on the Hulu series Castle Rock (2018), which intertwines characters and themes from Stephen King's fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine; and as Ellen Bergman, the mother of Julia Roberts's character, in the Amazon Prime Video series Homecoming (2018).