ACTOR

Sissy Spacek

1949 - Today

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Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (; born December 25, 1949) is an American actress. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for four BAFTA Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. Spacek was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011.After attending Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute she had her breakout role in Terrence Malick's crime film Badlands (1973), which earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sissy Spacek has received more than 9,028,863 page views. Her biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Sissy Spacek is the 647th most popular actor (up from 760th in 2019), the 1,188th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,408th in 2019) and the 318th most popular American Actor.

Sissy Spacek is most famous for her roles in the films Carrie, Coal Miner's Daughter, and The Help.

Memorability Metrics

  • 9.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 62

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Sissy Spaceks by language

Over the past year Sissy Spacek has had the most page views in the with 1,132,118 views, followed by German (93,463), and Spanish (79,056). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (363.64%), Urdu (333.62%), and Ukrainian (139.14%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Sissy Spacek ranks 647 out of 13,578. Before her are Anjelica Huston, Julie Walters, Lisa Kudrow, John Gielgud, Gert Fröbe, and William Fichtner. After her are Naomi Watts, Dwayne Johnson, Stefania Sandrelli, Claudette Colbert, Robert Englund, and Karin Schubert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Sissy Spacek ranks 67. Before her are Miuccia Prada, Gene Simmons, Shelley Duvall, Hugh David Politzer, Tom Berenger, and Teófilo Cubillas. After her are Issei Sagawa, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Cliff Williams, Philippe Petit, Valery Leontiev, and Philippe Starck.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sissy Spacek ranks 1,188 out of 20,380. Before her are Leo Fender (1909), Joe Jackson (1928), William Fichtner (1956), Don Siegel (1912), Donna Haraway (1944), and Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861). After her are George Papandreou (1952), George Stinney (1929), Edward Emerson Barnard (1857), Edmund Kemper (1948), Herbie Hancock (1940), and Dwayne Johnson (1972).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Sissy Spacek ranks 318. Before her are Richard Barthelmess (1895), Jennifer Jones (1919), Shia LaBeouf (1986), Anjelica Huston (1951), Lisa Kudrow (1963), and William Fichtner (1956). After her are Dwayne Johnson (1972), Robert Englund (1947), Ben Stiller (1965), Loie Fuller (1862), Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967), and Kelly McGillis (1957).

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Television and Movie Roles

Carrie
Carrie White
An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl's lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and an oppressive religious fanatic mother at home. When her tormentors pull a humiliating prank at the senior prom, she unleashes a horrifying chaos on everyone, leaving nothing but destruction in her wake.
Nov 3o 19767.309 / 10
The Help
Missus Walters
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.
Aug 9o 20118.2 / 10
The Straight Story
Rose
A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. Then he hits on the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.
Oct 15o 19997.719 / 10