The Life of Beloved Actress Sally Fields

In 1950, when Sally Field was four years old, her parents divorced. The separation reshaped her early childhood and marked the first major shift in her family life in Southern California.

She remained primarily with her mother, Margaret Field, an actress. The divorce meant a new domestic structure and, eventually, new influences in her upbringing. The instability of those early years would later become part of the personal history she reflected on in interviews and in her 2018 memoir.