Her Scottish mother, Margaret Hutton , worked as a secretary, and her English father, Nathaniel Smith, was a teacher at Oxford University.
Actress As a kid, Sissy Spacek climbed trees, rode horses, swam, and played in the woods.
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She is the youngest of three girls born to Bertye Kathleen Talbot , a homemaker, and Langdon Doyle Bates, a mechanical engineer.