Sally Field Returns!!!
Posted: August 29, 2002 @ 5:17 PM C
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NBC
Media Village
Two-time Oscar winner Sally Field reprises her Emmy Award-winning
role on NBC’s “ER” (Thursdays, 10-11 p.m. ET) this fall in the
first of multiple episodes in which she portrays the mentally ill and
problematic mother of Nurse Abby (Maura Tierney).
Field will resume filming in September in the role she first
originated on the popular drama series during the 2000-01 season over an
arc of high-profile episodes. Her character -- who suffers from a
bi-polar disorder -- will be reunited with her distrustful daughter as
well as her son (recurring guest star Thomas Everett Scott, “That
Thing You Do”), an Air Force veteran who is visiting Abby.
Field won Academy Awards as Best Actress for her performance in “Norma
Rae” and “Places in the Heart” and received her first Emmy Award
for the TV movie “Sybil” in 1977. Field also was Emmy-nominated for
her work in the cable movie “A Cooler Climate” and the miniseries
“A Woman of Independent Means.” She made her directorial debut in
the feature film “Beautiful,” starring Minnie Driver and starred as
a United States Supreme Court Justice in the TV drama “The Court”
last spring.
Among its previously announced roster of guest stars for the new
season, “ER” also will feature Don Cheadle (“Ocean’s Eleven”)
as a guest star in an arc of episodes.
For an unprecedented eighth year in a row, Emmy Award-winning drama
series “ER” was television’s highest-rated drama among adults
18-49 during the 2001-02 season. The series is a production of Constant
c Productions and Amblin Television in association with Warner Bros.
Television. Michael Crichton, John Wells and Jack Orman are the
executive producers.
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