Real Name: Mary Elizabeth Spacek Was Born: December 25, 1949. Quitman, Texas Bio: Sissy Spacek is an Academy Award-winning
American actor and singer... Spacek started out as a country singer, recording
one single ("John, You Went Too Far This Time," about John Lennon) under the
name "Rainbo." With the help of her cousin, actor Rip Torn, she was able to
enroll in Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio and then the Lee Strasberg Institute
in New York City. Her first credited role was in the 1972 movie Prime Cut, in
which she played a young woman sold into sexual slavery. The first role that
brought her notice was the 1973 film Badlands, where she met art director Jack
Fisk, whom she would later marry...
