Sissy Spacek – 71 

Sissy Spacek has had an exciting career as an actress. From a bullied high school girl to a coal miner’s daughter, she has delivered performances that’s stuck with fans forever. Fun fact: she was already 27 years old when she portrayed the teenager Carrie in the film of the same name. She also released a studio album called Hangin’ Up My Heart in 1983.

Spacek is still going strong at 71. She starred with Robert Redford in The Old Man and the Gun in 2018, and now she’s doing more TV work. In an interview with Rolling Stone, she said she was capitalizing on the peak TV boom. Thanks to TV, she has the opportunity to play more characters with varying degrees of complexity. She recently starred in the TV series Castle Rock and Homecoming. In 2012, Spacek released a memoir entitled My Extraordinary Ordinary Life.

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