Her other prominent films include 3 Women (1977), Raggedy Man (1981), 'night, Mother (1986), JFK (1991), Affliction (1997), The Straight Story (1999), Tuck Everlasting (2002), Nine Lives (2005), North Country (2005), Four Christmases (2008), Get Low (2010), The Help (2011), and The Old Man & the Gun (2018).

At the time Sissy Spacek made Coal Miner's Daughter, she was 30 years old. That matched Lynn's age during the bulk of the film (the 1960s) but requires a suspension of disbelief in the early scenes when Lynn is in her teens.

Sissy Spacek was 25 years old at the time of filming. Carrie is 17 years old in the novel.

Sissy continues to work steadily as an actress, but in 2012, her credits expanded even further to include a memoir, My Extraordinary Ordinary Life.