Sissy Spacek was born on December 25th, 1949 in Quitman, Texas.
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| Sissy Spacek |
She originally aspired to be a recording artist and in 1968, at age 18, recorded a diss track to John Lennon under the name Rainbo. The single didn’t perform well and she was dropped by her label.
She went on to prove herself later as a talented singer by doing all of her own singing as Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner’s Daughter.
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| Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980) |
After being dropped by her label Sissy enrolled in theater school in New York City and began hanging out with the Warhol crowd. Her first acting role was as an extra in Warhol’s Women In Revolt (1971) with Candy Darling and Holly Woodlawn.
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| Prime Cut (1972) |
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| Terrence Malick’s Badlands (1973) with Martin Sheen and John Carter |
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| Carrie (1976) with Nancy Allen, P.J. Soles, Priscilla Pointer, Amy Irving and Edie McClurg |
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| The voice of the brain in The Man With Two Brains (1983) |
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| Rip Torn and Sissy Spacek are cousins |
