Sally Kirkland
Sally Kirkland
A former member of Andy Warhol's Factory and an active member in 1960s New York avant-garde theater, actress Sally Kirkland is best remembered in film for playing a famous Czech actress who is forced to lead a degrading life of anonymity in New York in Anna (1987). The daughter of a fashion editor of Life magazine and a wealthy scrap iron vendor, the tall, slender Kirkland started out as a Vogue model and then studied at the Actor's Studio with Lee Strassberg and Uta Hagen. She launched her acting career off-Broadway, but didn't make much impact until she appeared nude and tied to a chair for 45 minutes in the drama Sweet Eros. By 1964, Kirkland was deeply involved in the Big Apple's avant-garde movement and was also an active drug user until an attempted suicide frightened her into cleaning up her life through yoga and painting. As an actress, she next involved herself with Warhol's clique, appearing in several underground films, notably The Thirteen Most Beautiful Women. Though much of her subsequent film appearances have been in low-budget and exploitation films, Kirkland has had a few shining moments as a supporting actress in such movies as The Sting (1973) and Private Benjamin (1980). For her work in Anna, Kirkland received an Academy Award nomination. In addition to her acting career, Kirkland is a minister of the New Age Church of the Movement of Inner Spiritual Awareness. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Sally Kirkland:
- Anna with Stefan Schnabel , Caroline Aaron , Sofia Coppola
- Get a Clue! with Ray Walston , Diane Ladd
- Neo Ned with Cary Elwes
- Crazy Mama with Cloris Leachman , Stuart Whitman , Ann Sothern , Jim Backus , Dick Miller , Bill Paxton
- JFK with Kevin Costner , Sissy Spacek , Joe Pesci , Tommy Lee Jones , Gary Oldman , Michael Rooker , Jay O. Sanders , Laurie Metcalf , Donald Sutherland , John Candy , Jack Lemmon , Walter Matthau , Ed Asner , Kevin Bacon , Brian Doyle-Murray , Vincent D'Onofrio , Lolita Davidovich , Pruitt Taylor Vince , Frank Whaley , John Seitz , Bob Gunton
- The Player with Tim Robbins , Greta Scacchi , Fred Ward , Whoopi Goldberg , Peter Gallagher , Vincent D'Onofrio , Brion James , Dean Stockwell , Richard E. Grant , Sydney Pollack , Lyle Lovett , Dina Merrill , Gina Gershon , Steve Allen , Richard Anderson , Rene Auberjonois , Harry Belafonte , Karen Black , Gary Busey , Robert Carradine , Cher , James Coburn , John Cusack , Brad Davis , Paul Dooley , Peter Falk , Felicia Farr , Louise Fletcher , Dennis Franz , Teri Garr , Jeff Goldblum , Elliott Gould , Joel Grey , David Alan Grier , Buck Henry , Anjelica Huston , Jack Lemmon , Marlee Matlin , Andie MacDowell , Malcolm McDowell , Jayne Meadows , Martin Mull , Nick Nolte , Bert Remsen , Burt Reynolds , Julia Roberts , Mimi Rogers , Alan Rudolph , Jill St. John , Susan Sarandon , Rod Steiger , Joan Tewkesbury , Lily Tomlin , Robert Wagner , Ray Walston , Bruce Willis , James Jr. Coburn , Scott Glenn , Michael Tolkin
- The Black Cat with John Amos , Martin Balsam , Kim Hunter
- Death Scream with Ed Asner , Eric Braeden , Art Carney , Diahann Carroll , Bert Freed , Helen Hunt , Raul Julia , Cloris Leachman , Allyn Ann McLerie
- Blue with Terence Stamp , Joanna Pettet , Karl Malden , Ricardo Montalban
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