Sissy Spacek Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Sissy Spacek filmography covers 44 movie titles and 11 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Sissy Spacek movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• Prime Cut (1972) as Poppy
• Badlands (1974) as Holly Sargis
• Carrie (1976) as Carrie
• Welcome to L.A. (1976) as Linda Murray
• 3 Women (1977) as Mildred "Pinky" Rose
• Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) as Loretta Lynn
• Heart Beat (1980) as Carolyn Cassady
• Raggedy Man (1981) as Nita
• Missing (1982) as Beth Horman
• The Man with Two Brains (1983) as Anne Uumellmahaye (uncredited) (voice)
• The River (1984) as Mae Garvey
• Marie: A True Story (1985) as Marie Ragghianti
• 'night, Mother (1986) as Jessie Cates
• Crimes of the Heart (1986) as Babe Magrath
• Violets Are Blue (1986) as Augusta "Gussie" Sawyer
• The Long Walk Home (1990) as Miriam Thompson
• JFK (1991) as Liz Garrison
• A Place for Annie (1994) as Susan Lansing
• Trading Mom (1994) as Mommy / Mama / Mom / Natasha
• If These Walls Could Talk (1996) as Barbara Barrows
• The Grass Harp (1996) as Verena Talbo
• Affliction (1998) as Margie Fogg
• Blast from the Past (1999) as Helen
• The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) as Carrie White (archive footage) (uncredited)
• The Straight Story (1999) as Rose
• In the Bedroom (2001) as Ruth Fowler
• Tuck Everlasting (2002) as Mae Tuck
• A Decade Under the Influence (2003) as Self
• A Home at the End of the World (2004) as Alice Glover
• An American Haunting (2005) as Lucy Bell
• Nine Lives (2005) as Ruth
• North Country (2005) as Alice Aimes
• The Ring Two (2005) as Evelyn
• Gray Matters (2007) as Dr. Sydney
• Hot Rod (2007) as Marie Powell
• Pictures of Hollis Woods (2007) as Josie Cahill
• Four Christmases (2008) as Paula
• Get Low (2010) as Mattie Darrow
• The Help (2011) as Missus Walters
• Deadfall (2012) as June
• HyperNormalisation (2016) as Self (archive footage)
• The Old Man & the Gun (2018) as Jewel
• Sam & Kate (2022) as Tina
• Die My Love (2025) as Pam

Sissy Spacek television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Sissy Spacek; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• Big Love as Marilyn Densham
• Bloodline as Sally Rayburn
• Castle Rock as Ruth Deaver
• Dying for Sex as Gail
• Great Performances as Verna Vane
• Homecoming as Ellen Bergman
• Night Sky as Irene York
• Streets of Laredo as Lorena
• The Oscars as Self
• The Rookies
• The Waltons

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Sissy Spacek's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.