Nora Maureen Walker (née Holden) is a fictional character on the television drama, Brothers & Sisters. She is portrayed in the series by veteran actress Sally Field. Nora is the main character of the series. Sally Field was one of the two characters to appear in all the episodes of the series. She was listed in the Top 10 TV Moms by Film.com.
Sally Field won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Drama Series for her role in the series. She also won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series, nominated for two other Emmys, and nominated for three Golden Globes.
Famous quotes containing the words nora and/or walker:
“It’s like pushing marbles through a sieve. It means the sieve will never be the same again.”
—Before the 1972 Democratic Convention in Miami. As quoted in Crazy Salad, ch. 6, by Nora Ephron (1972)
“How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers’ names.”
—Alice Walker (b. 1944)