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Was replaced by Debra Winger in Boychoir (2014) and Molly Shannon in Other People (2016) due to her commitment to the first and second seasons of Bloodline (2015).

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6834 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on August 1, 2011.

She was offered the role of Marie in Don McKay (2009) that went to Melissa Leo.

Her career has several connections to Robert Duvall. She and Duvall both appear in Four Christmases (2008) and Get Low (2009). Sissy starred in Streets of Laredo (1995), a sequel to Lonesome Dove (1989), starring Duvall. Further, her nephew Stephen Spacek appeared with Duvall in Gods and Generals (2003). Finally, Sissy narrates an audiobook version of To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), which was Duvall's first film.

She was the first choice for the role of Helen Kingsley in ER: Just as I Am (2005) that went to Frances Fisher.

Then, in 2001, Sissy returned to the big screen in a major way with a powerful performance in In the Bedroom (2001), which not only earned her a sixth Best Actress Oscar nomination, but a win for Best Actress at the Golden Globes, Independent Spirit Awards, and numerous critics association awards.

She was originally cast as Lee Wakefield Lacker in Marvin's Room (1996), but dropped out. Meryl Streep replaced her.

She auditioned for the role of Thelma Dickinson in Thelma & Louise (1991), but after reading the script, she thought it was "awful".

Gave birth to her second child at age 38, a daughter Madison Fisk on September 21, 1988. Child's father is her husband, Jack Fisk.

Was the first choice for the role of Emma Greenway in Terms of Endearment (1983), which went to Debra Winger.

Gave birth to her first child at age 32, a daughter Schuyler Fisk on July 8, 1982. Child's father is her husband, Jack Fisk.

Was the 85th actress to receive an Academy Award: she won the Best Actress Oscar for Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) at The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (1981) on March 31, 1981.

Sissy has had an enduring and award winning career in movies and television, which includes an Oscar as Best Actress for Coal Miner's Daughter (1980). The parents of two grown daughters, Sissy and Jack live on a large horse ranch in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.

Even though she continued to appear in film and television during the late 1980s and 1990s, Sissy devoted most of those years to her family.

She has won four New York Film Critics Circle Awards, second to Meryl Streep, who's won the most with five. Sissy's wins are for Three Women (1977), Best Supporting Actress; Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Best Actress; Crimes of the Heart (1986), Best Actress; and In the Bedroom (2001), Best Actress.

Sissy followed this landmark film with a star-making and Oscar nominated performance in Carrie (1976), in which she played a humiliated prom queen who goes postal with her telekinesis.

The art director on that film was Jack Fisk, with whom she would marry in 1974 and ultimately collaborate on eight films.

Sissy eventually broke into film and one of her first roles was as Holly in the classic Badlands (1973).

She was considered for the role of Jacy Farrow in The Last Picture Show (1971) that went to Cybill Shepherd.

In 1969, under the pseudonym of "Rainbo", she recorded a novelty song about John Lennon titled, "John, You've Gone Too Far This Time".

Decided to skip college after her older brother, Robbie, died at 18 years of age in 1967 from leukemia during her senior year in high school. She decided life was way too short to waste it in four years of college.

As a kid, Sissy Spacek climbed trees, rode horses, swam, and played in the woods. She was born Mary Elizabeth Spacek on December 25, 1949, in Quitman, Texas, to Virginia Frances (Spilman) and Edwin Arnold Spacek, Sr. , a county agricultural agent. Her father's family was of Czech and German origin. Sissy attended Quitman High School and was homecoming queen. After graduating, she embarked on an acting career, gaining interest in the profession through her cousin, actor Rip Torn. Sissy relocated to New York, and through him, enrolled in the New York branch of the Actors Studio. She studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute while also pursuing work as a model and singer, appearing in West Village showcases such as the Bitter End for $10 a night.

She is the 22nd great granddaughter of King Edward I.