Sally Field’s Kids: Meet Her 3 Grown & Handsome Sons

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Sally Field is an Academy, Golden Globe, and Emmy Award winning actress.
She has 3 sons crossed 2 marriages.
The ‘Forrest Gump’ histrion is presently appearing successful the ensemble formed of ’80 For Brady.’

Sally Field, 76, is 1 of the astir celebrated actresses successful the amusement industry. With Academy Awards for Norma Rae and Places successful the Heart, Emmy Awards for Sybil and Brothers & Sisters, and a prestigious Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, she’s acold surpassed the presumption quo.

Behind the scenes, she’s had an arsenic fulfilling idiosyncratic life, raising 3 sons across 2 marriages — 2 of whom presently enactment successful the amusement industry. When asked by Oprah Winfrey successful 2008 if her Brothers & Sisters quality Nora Walker had been influenced by ain acquisition arsenic a mom, she said it perfectly had. “In each way!” she exclaimed.

Sally Field, Armand De La Torre, Samuel Greisman, Eli and Sasha Craig

“God stepped successful and handed maine this relation to enactment retired truthful galore things successful my ain life. Like turning 60: What does that mean, particularly erstwhile you don’t person a mate? And what does it mean to beryllium the parent of 3 grown-ups? It’s hard for maine to archer wherever Nora ends and wherever Sally begins. Except Nora doesn’t person a career, and she’s a small overbearing successful a mode that I’m not—or astatine least, I deliberation I’m not. My sons mightiness person a antithetic instrumentality connected that.”

Here’s what to cognize astir Sally Field’s 3 talented children.

Peter Craig

After Sally married Steven Craig, her precocious schoolhouse sweetheart, successful 1968, she had her archetypal kid — Peter Craig, 53, who is simply a screenwriter and novelist who worked connected landmark container bureau hits similar Top Gun: Maverick, The Batman, The Mother, Bad Boys For Life, and the archetypal two Hunger Games films. His novels see The Martini Shot and Blood Father. He’s been nominated for 2 Writers Guild of America Awards and 1 Critics Choice Movie Award.

“My oldest lad is this miraculously loving genitor to his 2 small girls. When I ticker him with them, I think, ‘Boy, I would person liked to person had comfortableness similar that,'” she told Oprah — though it’s worthy noting that since the 2008 interview, he’s had 1 much kid for a full of three. “They won’t person immoderate occupation knowing however to emotion oregon beryllium loved,” she continued. “To rise children who spell connected to beryllium large parents is an accomplishment—that’s the Oscar infinitesimal successful life.”

Like his mother, Peter has been joined doubly — erstwhile to writer Amy Scattergood, with whom helium welcomed his 2 daughters, and past to histrion Jennifer DeFrancisco, who helium divorced successful 2017. They stock 1 lad together.

Eli Craig

Like his mother, Eli Craig is an histrion and director, and he’s known for films similar Zombieland, Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil, and Little Evil. Born successful 1972, the 2nd of Sally’s sons with her archetypal husband, he’s besides been credited with screenwriting. “Eli would accidental that I’ve been a bully and loving mom, but that I haven’t done a batch of things well,” Sally told Oprah successful 2008. “It’s true; erstwhile helium was grown, helium told maine that I didn’t subject him enough. Can you judge it? I said, ‘I’d similar you to effort to subject the benignant of lad you were. You were perfectly uncontainable!'”

Sally continued saying that watching him genitor has told him thing astir herself. “I present spot him parenting his ain son, and watching your kids go parents tells you what benignant of genitor you mightiness person been. You cognize that astatine slightest thing you gave them gives them the quality to attraction for their ain children.”

He present has 2 children with his wife, histrion Sasha Williams.

Sam Greisman

Sam Greisman is Sally’s 1 and lone kid with her 2nd (and last) husband, Alan Greisman. The erstwhile mates welcomed Sam Greisman into the household successful 1987. Sally erstwhile related that with her youngest, whom she gave commencement to aft turning 40, she learned to maestro immoderate of her anxiousness astir going to enactment portion being a mother. “I got a small amended astatine being capable to grip my panic astatine wanting to absorption connected work, yet knowing helium needed me,” she told Good Housekeeping successful 2009. “I learned to admit that panic was conscionable the mode it was. It didn’t termination you.”

Sam, besides a writer and director, came retired arsenic cheery years ago, and his ma had his back. “It’s important to person a genitor talk astir raising a magnificent, proud, intelligent, funny, lovable, sexy cheery son,” she said successful another interview with Oprah successful 2012. “There are truthful galore parents who are frightened of that and who don’t clasp their children arsenic they conflict to … clasp who they are, what quality intended them to be.”

Sam took to the podium during the Ally for Equality Award astatine the Human Rights Campaign Gala that aforesaid twelvemonth to wage tribute to his celebrated mom. “When I came out, she didn’t bat an eye,” helium said. “In fact, she was overjoyed. Being cheery was conscionable 1 much happening she loved astir me. She couldn’t beryllium much supportive of me; if anything, I privation she was a small little supportive of me.”

He’s besides been known to instrumentality to Instagram with affectionate words for Sally. “Happy Mothers Day, mom,” helium wrote alongside a throwback postulation of red-carpet pics with Sally successful 2018. “From your go-to date. Xoxo.” In 2019, the parent lad duo teamed up to share a video successful enactment of the Equality Act. “Proud to basal with @humanrightscampaign and immoderate woman who won’t halt facetiming maine to support #equalityact,” helium quipped successful the caption.

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