In 1980, Hollywood turned Lynn’s memoir, also called Coal Miner's Daughter, into a movie with Sissy Spacek stepping in not only to play Lynn, but to also sing her songs.

Now 72, Spacek won an Academy Award for best actress in the 1980 film Coal Miner’s Daughter, which told the life story of Lynn, a girl from Butcher Holler, Ky. Lynn died Tuesday at her home in ...

Sissy Spacek falls into all three categories, having been personally selected by Lynn to star in the 1980 biopic, Coal Miner's Daughter, based on her rags-to-riches life story.

The 1980 Loretta Lynn biopic Coal Miner’s Daughter — which airs tonight at 8pm EST on TCM as part of their “Mary Stuart Celebrates Music in the Movies” series — first hit theaters over ...

Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) Michael Ochs Archives/Getty. Spacek began acting in the early '70s, moving to New York and enrolling in the Actors Studio.

In 1983, three years after singing on the soundtrack for Coal Miner’s Daughter, the biographical film of Loretta Lynn‘s life, and winning the Academy Award for Best Actress, Sissy Spacek ...

Sissy Spacek's stunning turn in 1980's "Coal Miner's Daughter" as country star Loretta Lynn, who died Tuesday, earned her a best actress Oscar. Watch Party Newsletter What to watch Win $100 📚 ...

Her earlier noms, all in the best actress category, came for Carrie, Coal Miner’s Daughter, Missing, 1984’s The River, 1986’s Crimes of the Heart and 2001’s In the Bedroom.

Coal Miner’s Daughter, Loretta Lynn’s bestselling ... and adapted by screenwriter Tom Rickman and director Michael Apted into the 1980 film that won Sissy Spacek an Oscar for her ...

Coal Miner’s Daughter, ... and adapted by screenwriter Tom Rickman and director Michael Apted into the 1980 film that won Sissy Spacek an Oscar for her portrayal of Lynn.

Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) Michael Ochs Archives/Getty. Spacek began acting in the early '70s, moving to New York and enrolling in the Actors Studio.