Sally Field is a proud mom to three sons, and she recently shared a rare picture with her youngest, Sam Greisman.
In the picture, Sally and Sam both shared their support for the Democratic nominee for President, Kamala Harris, with Sam wearing a “Harris/Walz” tee and Sally a sweater that reflected the history of America’s democracy, beginning in 1776.
“Whether you’re a Democrat, a Republican or an Independent – vote for Democracy, for human rights, for women’s rights, for sanity, for hope, for @kamalaharris & @timwalz,” the captioned the post; Donald Trump won the Presidency.
Sally kept her look casual, pairing the sweater with loose capri pants and white slippers, and her gorgeous gray hair was styled straight with bangs falling across her face.
Sam is Sally’s son with ex-husband Alan Greisman, whom she wed in 1983 and divorced in 1994. Sam, 37, is a writer and producer, known for Dinner with Jeffrey (2016) and After School (2015), and is an internet personality with over 46,000 Instagram followers.
The picture was taken on what appeared to be a patio, with two sitting on a wooden bench holding Sam’s two pet dogs.
Sally, who has won two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and three Primetime Emmy Awards, over her career, lives in the coastal neighborhood of Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles. She purchased the three-bedroom, four-bathroom house in 2002 for $2.3 million after selling her 6,000 square feet Malibu house in 2001.
The 2002 listing described the home as having “explosive ocean, canyon, mountain and city views,” and had a state-of-the-art kitchen, master bedroom with a private balcony, and a dramatic stone fireplace, pitched beam ceilings and skylights.
At 78, Sally – who has starred in Steel Magnolias (1989), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), and Forrest Gump (1994) – is showing no signs of slowing down as she will next appear in the upcoming Netflix adaptation, Remarkably Bright Creatures, based on the novel by Shelby Van Pelt.
According to the author’s website, the story follows “a widow’s unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium—and the truths she finally uncovers about her son’s disappearance 30 years ago.”
Sally is also mom to sons Peter Craig and Eli Craig, and grandmother to five.
Peter is an American novelist and screenwriter best known for co-writing the screenplays to Oscar-nominated films The Town (2010), and Top Gun: Maverick (2022).
He has two daughters and a son, and Eli is a director, who has two sons with Sasha Williams.
Sally Field recalls her ‘hideous’ illegal abortion at 17 as she urges voters to back Kamala Harris
Oscar-winning actor speaks about the ‘life-altering’ operation she underwent in Mexico with no anaesthetic in 1964: ‘How you can go back to that?’
Sally Field has spoken about the “hideous” and “traumatic” illegal abortion she underwent as a 17-year-old in 1964, as she called on voters to get behind Kamala Harris in the upcoming US presidential election.
The Oscar-winning actor first revealed her abortion in her 2018 memoir In Pieces, but wrote in the caption of her video, shared on Instagram, that she had “been so hesitant to do this, to tell my horrific story”.
“It was during a time even worse than now,” she wrote. “A time when contraception was not readily available and only if you were married. But I feel that so many women of my generation went through similar, traumatic events and I feel stronger when I think of them. I believe, like me, they must want to fight for their grandchildren and all the young women of this country.”
In the video, Field said she still feels “very shamed” about the abortion “because I was raised in the 50s, and it’s ingrained in me.” She was 17 when she underwent the procedure in 1964 – nine years before Roe v Wade introduced a constitutional right to abortion, which was upheld until the US supreme court overturned federal-level abortion rights in June 2022.
The actor said she had “no choices in my life” and little family support when she discovered she was pregnant. A family friend who was a doctor drove her, her mother and his wife to Tijuana, Mexico so she could undergo the abortion.
“We parked on a really scroungy-looking street, it was scary and he parked about three blocks away and said, ‘See that building down there?’ And he gave me an envelope with cash and I was to walk into that building and give them the cash and then come right back to him,” Field said, saying she believed he’d travelled with her in case she died.
The procedure was “beyond hideous and life-altering” and she “had no anaesthetic”, she said.
“There was a technician giving me a few puffs of ether but he would then take it away, so it just made my arms and legs feel numb [and] weird, but I felt everything – how much pain I was in,” she said.
“Then the situation turned darker. I realized that the technician was actually molesting me, so I had to figure out, how can I make my arms move to push him away? So it was just this absolute pit of shame. And then, when it was finished, they said, ‘Go go go go go!’, like the building was on fire. And they didn’t want me there, you know, it was illegal.”
She thanked her doctor for his “generosity and bravery” in risking his licence by taking her to Mexico, and recalled that before the trip, she had never left her home state or been on an plane. But a few months after the illegal abortion, she began auditioning and booked her breakout role in Gidget soon after.
“These are the things that women are going through now – when they’re trying to get to another state, they don’t have the money, they don’t have the means, they don’t know where they’re going,” Field said. “And it’s beyond, and do that to our little girls and our young women, and not have respect and regard for their health and their own decisions about whether they feel they’re able to give birth to a child at that time.”
In her caption, the actor called on voters to support Harris and Tim Walz or “those with ballot initiatives that could protect reproductive freedom.”
““PLEASE. WE CAN’T GO BACK!!” she ended.
Field previously endorsed Harris for president when Joe Biden stepped down, telling Variety in July that she was “so grateful” to Biden and that she supported Harris “with my whole 77-year-old heart.”
Public polling has long held that most Americans favour access to abortion, but many Republican-led state legislatures have sought to restrict access, mainly citing conservative religious beliefs.
While Roe v Wade was overturned two years after Donald Trump’s presidency ended, three US supreme court justice appointed by him formed part of the conservative bloc that struck the landmark decision down, with fears a second Trump presidency would restrict women’s reproductive rights even more.
Trump’s wife, Melania, recently revealed she is a passionate supporter of women’s right to abortion, writing in her new memoir: “It is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of having children, based on their own convictions, free from any intervention or pressure from the government.”
Sally Field’s 3 Sons: All About Peter, Eli and Sam
Sally Field is proud of her kids and what they’ve accomplished
Sally Field is a proud mom to her sons: Peter, Eli and Sam.
Over the years, The Flying Nun star has spoken about her love for her children. In a speech at the 2012 Human Rights Campaign annual national dinner, Field said, “The three things I am most proud of in my life are Peter, Eli and Sam. My sons.”
The Oscar winner added, “They are kind and loving, productive human beings. Each very different from the other.”
Field shares her elder sons, Peter and Eli, with her first husband, Steven Craig, and her youngest, Sam, with her second husband, Alan Greisman.
The Forrest Gump actress was in her early 20s when she became a mom for the first time. Field told PEOPLE in 2023 that she apologized to her older sons for being a “young parent” while also recognizing how they motivated her.
“I had two little kids to take care of,” she said, “I didn’t have the luxury to throw my hands up and say, ‘Forget this whole acting thing — I’m gonna go and open up a boutique in Pasadena.’ My kids were fuel.”
Field added, “More times than not, they literally picked me up when I just felt crushed.”
Here is everything to know about Sally Field’s sons: Peter, Eli and Sam.
Peter Craig, 55
Field and her then-husband Steven welcomed their first child, son Peter, on Nov. 10, 1969.
“The very end of the second year of [The Flying] Nun, before the third even began, I was pregnant with my first child,” Field told PEOPLE in 2016, noting that her focus at the time was on “what was happening inside of” her.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Peter was shuttled between his mom’s movie sets and his dad’s commune during his childhood. When he was 28, Peter admitted to Entertainment Weekly that he knew early on that his “mother wasn’t like other moms” and that his father “wasn’t really like other dads.”
Peter said, “In a way, my whole life has been full of extremes.” Part of this lifestyle included events with his mom — in 1982, he accompanied Field to the 8th annual People’s Choice Awards.
Fueled by his unique upbringing, Peter became an author. According to his Hachette Books bio, he attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and wrote two novels in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Hot Plastic and The Martini Shot.
In addition to being a novelist, Field’s firstborn is also a screenwriter. Peter co-wrote the 2022 blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. He also co-wrote the screenplay for 2022’s The Batman and 2010’s The Town.
Field is supportive of Peter’s career, and he told Entertainment Weekly in 1998 that “being the son of a famous person is a curious and difficult thing, and I think [writing] might just be the best way to handle that.”
Peter is also a parent: He shares two daughters with ex-wife Amy Scattergood and a son with ex-wife Jennifer DeFrancisco.
Speaking to Oprah Winfrey in 2008, Field said, “My oldest son is this miraculously loving parent to his two little girls. When I watch him with them, I think, ‘Boy, I would have liked to have had comfort like that.’ “
The actress added, “They won’t have any trouble knowing how to love or be loved. To raise children who go on to be great parents is an accomplishment — that’s the Oscar moment in life.”
Eli Craig, 52
Field and Steven celebrated the arrival of their second child together, son Eli, on May 25, 1972.
Similarly to his elder brother’s career, Eli is a writer and director who worked on 2017’s Little Evil starring Adam Scott and Evangeline Lilly. He also directed Tucker & Dale vs Evil and an episode of his mom’s show Brothers & Sisters.
Eli married his wife Sasha, who played the Yellow Ranger on Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, in 2004. They are parents to two sons.
Field told Winfrey in 2008 that her son Eli would say she had “been a good and loving mom,” but she hadn’t “done a lot of things well.”
The Sybil star explained, “It’s true; when he was grown, he told me that I didn’t discipline him enough. Can you believe it? I said, ‘I’d like you to try to discipline the kind of boy you were. You were absolutely uncontainable!’ “
Sam Greisman, 37
Sam, who was born on Dec. 2, 1987, is Field’s first and only child with her second husband, Alan.
The mother and son have a strong bond. Field’s youngest wrote a personal essay for PEOPLE in 2023 about his experience coming out as gay to his mom and opened up more about their dynamic.
“I’ve always been a momma’s boy — painfully, occasionally ashamedly so. Perhaps too obsessed with her,” Sam wrote. “Maybe it’s because I’m the youngest, by sixteen years. Maybe it’s because I was a shy little kid and my mom was a safe space; a hip I was attached to.”
He added, “Maybe it’s because gay men feel a certain undeniable affection for award-winning actresses. Who knows! Whatever it is, we have always been incredibly close.”
Sam shared that he grew up “so connected” to his mother and that he can trace his life through her career. He remembered their time in California while Field worked on Mrs. Doubtfire, the toy store in South Carolina where she filmed Forrest Gump and how she moved her schedule around for him amid Brothers & Sisters shooting.
She and her youngest son teamed up in 2019 to support the Equality Act as part of HRC’s Americans for the Equality Act campaign. Years earlier, in 2012, Field was presented with the organization’s Ally for Equality Award, and Sam introduced her at the ceremony.
“When I came out, she didn’t even bat an eye. In fact, she was overjoyed,” he shared from the podium. “Being gay was just one more thing she loved about me. She couldn’t be more supportive of me, if anything, I wish she was a little less supportive of me.”
Field memorably tried to connect Sam with his “Olympic crush” Adam Rippon in 2018.
In her remarks at the event, Field said, “He was always, always Sam. Glorious, smart, funny, sweet Sam. And finally at 20, long after he beat the crap out of his brothers at tennis and he knew more than anyone about basketball, at 20 he was finally able to stand up proudly and say, ‘I am a gay man.’ “