Sissy Spacek

In 2012 Spacek publiSissy Spacekd a memoir My Extraordinary Ordinary Life written along with Maryanne Vollers. With the help of Rip Torn Sissy Spacek was enrolled in Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio and then the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York. She came to international prominence for her roles as Holly Sargis in Terrence Malick's 1973 film Badlands and as Carrie White in Brian De Palma's 1976 horror film Carrie (based on the first novel by Stephen King) for which Sissy Spacek earned her first Academy Award nomination.

She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as country star Loretta Lynn in the 1980 film Coal Miner's Daughter. This article is about the actress. The films that Sissy Spacek has starred in have earned more than $1 billion worldwide.