Actress Sissy Spacek won an Oscar, Golden Globes and a SAG award, but her crowning achievement is being the mother of two beautiful girls – Schuyler Fisk (40) and Madison Fisk (34) with her longtime husband Jack Fisk, a renowned production house designer.
Shortly after becoming a mother for the first time, Carrie star opened up about all the ways parenthood has “changed” her.
“Everything means more,” she said in an interview in 1984. “I remember my mother always saying ‘I would fight with a saw for you’ and now I know what she meant. It’s a beautiful thing.”
When her commitments as a mother and as an actress conflicted, she always prioritized her family – and that included moving from Los Angeles to Virginia and turning down the lead role in Conditions of tenderness stay home with Schuyler.
“I couldn’t leave my child,” she said The Washington Post 2001 “Film is an amazing art form, but so is life. When your career and your life can work together and one can support the other, it’s just great.”
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Her daughters respect and appreciate everything she has achieved in the film industry. “I’m so proud of her,” Schuyler said Yahoo! Fun. “I just think she’s so amazing. She’s smart, driven and talented, and she’s really committed to a good job.”
And now she is dedicated to being a fantastic grandmother to her grandchildren. “Now I have grandchildren,” she said Esquire. “It’s the greatest thing I’ve experienced. I am very satisfied… I think that satisfaction is what we need and simply should be. I spend a lot of time with my family, and then I work every now and then.”
Read on to find out all about Sissy Spacek and Jack Fisk’s daughters, Schuyler and Madison Fisk.
Schuyler Fisk, 40
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Sissy and Jack welcomed their first child, Schuyler Fisk, on July 8, 1982, in Los Angeles, California. They moved to Virginia when she was a child to live on a horse farm and enjoy a more normal life outside the bright lights of Hollywood – something Schuyler admits she “hated” at the time.
“I wanted to be in the mix of everything and I told them,” she told PEOPLE. “They like to make fun of me now that when I was 6 years old I told them they were ruining my career because we don’t live in Los Angeles.”
Now she is “grateful” that they chose that way. “I mean, yeah, we’d go to movie sets with my parents, but I’ve also been playing sports and riding horses and being really involved in my community and I’m just grateful [for that]”, she added.
Still, she had the unique experience of growing up with famous parents — like playing with her mom’s Oscar as a child. “It was in her closet,” she recalled. “That thing is hard. Really heavy. I can’t believe how rough, looking back, I would have played with him. But yes, it still stands.”
In the end, Schuyler’s dream of becoming an actress came true. She got a big breakthrough Orange Countyteen comedy starring another celebrity child, Colin Hanks, and she even worked with her mom on a movie called Sam & Kate in 2022
“There was no moment where I said, ‘I want to be an actor and a musician.’ It was just obvious, I guess. I jumped at it,” she said. “There was a point where I decided to graduate high school a year early and asked them, ‘I’m going to move to LA, okay?’ ” Despite being only 17 years old, her parents were “shockingly supportive”.
“But I really had a plan and I went out there and I wasn’t too crazy, I really followed my dreams,” she said. “I’m happy they supported my art.”
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Her dreams also included being a music artist – and the two coincided Sam & Kate presented her song “Life After” on the soundtrack. The experience was similar to the one her mom had while working on a cover of the title track A miner’s daughter. The project brought Sissy a Grammy nomination.
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Schuyler admires her parents and is happy to accept any advice her mom has to share. “I respect my parents and their dedication to their art and I take all the advice – I love it,” she said. “I look up to them and admire them and respect their careers and their choices, their dedication and work ethic. Any advice I can give, I’m happy.”
But when Schuyler got the chance to take on Sissy’s most famous role in the film Carrie reboot, she politely refused. “It just didn’t feel like the right thing for it many reasons, so it would never happen,” she said Yahoo! Fun “I feel like Carrie is such an epic film that it is, so the idea of trying to do anything else to recreate it just wasn’t necessary… It was sweet that they thought of me. But it just wasn’t the right thing to do.”
Life for Schuyler was not without its challenges. In 2019, she opened up about her struggle with endometriosis in a vulnerable post on Instagram. “Knowing what I know now, I’ve had all the major signs of endometriosis since I was a teenager and regularly asked my doctors about my symptoms, but no doctor had ever mentioned the word endometriosis to me until this past year (at age 36),” she said.
The actress underwent surgery to ease her pain, which she called a “game changer.” “I found that a mostly plant-based diet was also very helpful, but we’re all different,” she added. “We are strong, and knowledge is power!”
Fortunately, he can always rely on his family. “My parents are great people,” she said. “I think the best advice they gave me was just leading by example and the way they chose to put their family first.”
On Mother’s Day 2020, Schuyler thanked her mom for everything she gave her. “Thank you for making me. and for nurturing me. and for loving me. for encouraging me. supporting me. because you are always there for me. and for showing me what true unconditional love is,” she wrote on Instagram. you are so beautiful inside and out! I want to be like you when I grow up!”
Madison Fisk, 34
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Sissy and Jack’s younger daughter Madison “VM” Fisk was born on September 21, 1988 in Charlottesville, Virginia. Schuyler was thrilled to be a big sister and recalled welcoming her sibling in a sweet 2018 birthday post.
“I remember this day like it was yesterday,” she wrote. “I remember being picked up early that day from school because my little sister was coming! I remember feeling like she was MY baby because I had wished for her for so long on the first star I saw every night.”
Schuyler revealed that her mom bought her her own diaper bag to make her feel like she was truly helping. Now that they are grown up, they are best friends.
“This tiny little baby has grown into such a strong, smart, immensely talented, brave woman who is the person who is only there for you when you need her,” she wrote. “I am lucky to call her my sister and my friend.”
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Madison is an artist like her father. She studied painting and video art at the California Institute of Art and Sculpture at Virginia Commonwealth University, according to her New City Arts biography.
She did some work in the film industry building and designing film sets, but decided to venture out on her own as an artist and won the Herradura Barrel Art competition in 2014. She also designs jewelry and shares her work on her Instagram page. Madison describes herself as “an animal lover, a realistic optimist, and a fan of dad jokes.”
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