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Sally Kirkland

Born 1941-10-31
Died 2025-11-11
📍 New York City, New York, USA

Sally Kirkland (October 31, 1941 — November 11, 2025) was an American film, television and stage actress and producer. A former member of Andy Warhol's The Factory and an active member in 1960s New York avant-garde theater, she has appeared in more than 250 film and television productions during her 60-year career. Kirkland is the daughter of fashion editor of Life magazine and Vogue, Sally Kirkland.

Kirkland was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Anna (1987), but lost to Cher, who won for her role in Moonstruck. She won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for her role and received awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the Independent Spirit Awards. She earned a second Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for The Haunted (1991). Kirkland was also known for her roles in Cold Feet (1989), Best of the Best (1989), JFK (1991), and Bruce Almighty (2003).

Filmography 200

SEGAL
as Self
2025
Sallywood
as Self
2024
Aftermath
as Dr. Jane
2024
Skeletons in the Closet
as Madam Futura
2024
Woods Witch
as Charlotte
2023
Holiday Boyfriend
as Alice
2023
Lost Explorer
as Annette
2023
When It Rings
as Lesley Judd
2023
Altered Perceptions
as Theresa Morgan
2023
Here We Are
as Sherri
2023
Bobcat Moretti
as Helene Moretti
2023
The Haunting of Hell Hole Mine
as Doctor Parker
2023
The New Hands
as May
2023
80 for Brady
as Ida
2023
Murder, Anyone?
as Nancy
2022
The Walk
as Mrs. Kelley
2022
The Magic
as Rose Buchanan
2021
The Final Code
as Doctor Holly
2021
The Woman in the Room
as Mother
2021
Magic Max
as Elaine Hart
2021
Hope For The Holidays
as Georgia Petros
2020
Invincible
as Dr. Quade
2020
Acceleration
as Betty
2019
Cuck
as Mother
2019
Sarah Q
as Helena
2018
Making a Killing
as Dolores
2018
Paint It Red
as Adele
2018
Los Angeles Overnight
as Mrs. Chantilly
2018
The Second Coming of Christ
as Stella
2018
Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
as Self
2018
Get Married or Die
as Margaret
2018
Gnaw
as Claudette Grim
2017
Price for Freedom
as Francine Wayne
2017
The Most Hated Woman in America
as Lena Christina
2017
Extinction
as Rose
2017
Nerdland
as Older Woman (voice)
2016
Trash Fire
as Florence
2016
Buddy Solitaire
as Hanna
2016
Lights Out
as Rose
2015
The Code of Cain
as Elisabeth
2015
Buddy Hutchins
as Bertha
2015
All I Want for Christmas
as Gwen
2014
Slut
as Grandma
2014
Archaeology of a Woman
as Margaret
2014
Suburban Gothic
as Virginia
2014
Mystical Traveler: The Life and Times of Dr. John-Roger
as Self
2014
Tom in America
as Betty
2014
Jack the Reaper
as Harold's Nana
2013
Awakened
as Harriet Bendi
2013
Curse of the Sunset Starlet
as Gigi
2013
The Visitor from Planet Omicron
as Jen
2013
Broken Roads
as Mrs. Wallace
2012
Stars in Shorts
as Madame Ulaila
2012
The Wishmakers
as Mary
2011
The Wayshower
as Jeena
2011
A Bag of Hammers
as Older Jewish Lady
2011
Not Your Time
as Madame Ulaila
2010
House Under Siege
as Pat Mazur
2010
Flexing with Monty
as Lillith
2010
Urgency
as Mediator
2010
Spiritual Warriors
as Realtor
2008
Mollie & Friends
as Elizabeth St. James
2008
Big Stan
as Madame Foreman
2007
Resurrection Mary
as Lois
2007
Richard III
as Queen Margaret
2007
Hollywood Dreams
2007
Head Case
as Dr. Goode's Mother
2007
Factory Girl
as Grandma Sedgwick (uncredited)
2006
Off the Black
as Marianne Reynolds
2006
Coffee Date
as Mrs. Muller
2006
Fingerprints
as Mary
2006
Courts mais Gay : Tome 11
as Rachel
2006
Chandler Hall
as Sally
2005
Wanted 2005
as Sheila Beckwith
2005
What's Up, Scarlet?
as Ruth Zabrinski
2005
Adam & Steve
as Mary
2005
Neo Ned
as Shelly Nelson
2005
Bloodlines
as Joyce
2004
An Eye for an Eye
as Rachel
2004
Mango Kiss
as Emilia
2004
Bruce Almighty
as Anita
2003
Boxer Shorts
2002
Wish You Were Dead
as Penelope Wilson
2002
Night of the Wolf
as Rose Handy
2002
The Rose Technique
as Helen
2002
Circuit
as Club Cashier
2001
A Month of Sundays
as Katherine St. Croix
2001
Out of the Black
as Elizabeth Malby
2001
Audit
as Raissa
2001
Strong Medicine
as Stella Riggs, Peter's Mother
2000
Another Woman's Husband
as Roxie
2000
EDtv
as Jeanette
1999
Starry Night
as Detective Brook Murphy
1999
Felicity
as Professor Annie Sherman
1998
Wilbur Falls
as Roberta Devereaux
1998
Brave New World
as Linda
1998
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
as Self
1998
Little Ghost
as Mother Ghost
1997
The Westing Game
as Sydelle Pulaski
1997
Excess Baggage
as Louise
1997
The Hunger
as Mrs. Garington
1997
Amnesia
as Charlene Hunt
1997
Women: Stories of Passion
as Annie
1996
Picture Windows
as Blossom
1995
Guns & Lipstick
as Danielle Roberts
1995
Picture Windows: Song of Songs
as Blossom
1994
Valley of the Dolls
as Helen Lawson
1994
The Nanny
as Tattoo Lady
1993
Cheatin' Hearts
as Jenny
1993
Double Deception
as Anita Cortez
1993
Gunmen
as Bennett
1993
Eye of the Stranger
as Lori
1993
The Woman Who Loved Elvis
as Sandee Sloop
1993
Stranger Than Love
as Laura Frossky
1993
Double Threat
as Monica Martel
1992
Double Jeopardy
as Detective Phyllis Camden
1992
Primary Motive
as Helen Poulas
1992
Hit the Dutchman
as Emma Flegenheimer
1992
Jack's Place
1992
The Player
as Sally Kirkland
1992
In the Heat of Passion
as Lee Adams
1992
Forever
as Angelica
1992
Stringer
as Joan Pezanasky
1992
JFK
as Rose Cheramie
1991
The Haunted
as Janet Smurl
1991
Grave Images
as Caitlin
1991
Bullseye!
as Willie
1990
Heat Wave
as Mrs. Canfield
1990
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
as Self
1990
Paint It Black
as Marion Easton
1990
Revenge
as Rock Star
1990
Two Evil Eyes
as Eleonora
1990
Best of the Best
as Catherine Wade
1989
High Stakes
as Melanie Rose
1989
Cold Feet
as Maureen
1989
White Hot
as Harriet
1989
Hello Actors Studio
as Self
1988
Roseanne
1988
Anna
as Anna
1987
Talking Walls
as Hooker
1987
Murder, She Wrote
as Evelyn Colby
1984
Fatal Games
as Diane Paine
1984
A Rose for Emily
as Gossip
1983
Love Letters
as Hippie
1983
Human Highway
as Kathryn
1982
Double Exposure
as Hooker
1982
Falcon Crest
as Ella
1981
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
as Cashier
1981
The Georgia Peaches
as Vivian Stark
1980
Private Benjamin
as Helga
1980
The Illegal
as Don Tony's Girlfriend
1979
Supertrain
as Katherine Sully
1979
Hometown U.S.A.
as Gwen
1979
Flush
as Janet
1977
The Incredible Hulk
as Margaret Hollinger
1977
Lou Grant
1977
Three's Company
as Sally
1977
Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?
as Della Bianco
1977
A Star Is Born
as Photographer
1976
Tracks
as Train Passenger
1976
Pipe Dreams
as Two-Street Betty
1976
Captains and the Kings
as Aggie
1976
Charlie's Angels
as Lonnie
1976
Charlie's Angels
as Laurie Archer
1976
Griffin and Phoenix
as Jody
1976
Breakheart Pass
as Jane-Marie
1975
Bite the Bullet
as Honey
1975
Death Scream
as Mary
1975
The Kansas City Massacre
as Wilma Floyd
1975
Starsky & Hutch
as Greta Wren / Dora Pruitt
1975
Crazy Mama
as Ella Mae
1975
Bronk
1975
The Noah
as Friday-Anne
1975
Baretta
1975
Big Bad Mama
as Barney's Woman
1974
Petrocelli
1974
Candy Stripe Nurses
as Wife in Clinic
1974
Blazing Saddles
as Cashier (uncredited)
1974
The Sting
as Crystal
1973
Cinderella Liberty
as Fleet Chick
1973
Fade In
as Herself
1973
Kojak
as Gloria
1973
Kojak
as Shirley
1973
Kojak
as Clara
1973
The Way We Were
as Pony Dunbar
1973
Blume in Love
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1973
The Young Nurses
as Woman at clinic
1973
The Rookies
1972
Going Home
as Ann Graham
1971
Jump
as Lou (uncredited)
1971
Brand X
as Patient / President's Wife
1970
Futz
as Merry Lee
1969
Coming Apart
as Joann
1969
Hawaii Five-O
as Betty Rowan
1968
Blue
as Sarah Lambert
1968
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
as Self
1965
13 Most Beautiful Women
1964
SCREEN TEST [ST181]: SALLY KIRKLAND
as self
1964
Hey, Let's Twist!
as Peppermint Club Dancer (uncredited)
1961
Crack in the Mirror
as Bit Part (uncredited)
1960