
Sally Kirkland
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 31, 1941
- Died
- November 11, 2025 (aged 84)
- Birthplace
- New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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).
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Filmography

SEGAL
Movie · as Self

Aftermath
Movie · as Dr. Jane

Skeletons in the Closet
Movie · as Madam Futura

Sallywood
Movie · as Self

80 for Brady
Movie · as Ida

The New Hands
Movie · as May

Here We Are
Movie · as Sherri

Woods Witch
Movie · as Charlotte

When It Rings
Movie · as Lesley Judd

Altered Perceptions
Movie · as Theresa Morgan

Holiday Boyfriend
Movie · as Alice

Bobcat Moretti
Movie · as Helene Moretti

Lost Explorer
Movie · as Annette

The Haunting of Hell Hole Mine
Movie · as Doctor Parker

The Walk
Movie · as Mrs. Kelley

Murder, Anyone?
Movie · as Nancy

The Magic
Movie · as Rose Buchanan

The Final Code
Movie · as Doctor Holly

The Woman in the Room
Movie · as Mother

Magic Max
Movie · as Elaine Hart

Hope For The Holidays
Movie · as Georgia Petros

Invincible
Movie · as Dr. Quade

A Medicine for the Mind
Movie · as Sandra

Cuck
Movie · as Mother

Acceleration
Movie · as Betty

The Second Coming of Christ
Movie · as Stella

Los Angeles Overnight
Movie · as Mrs. Chantilly

Making a Killing
Movie · as Dolores

Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
Movie · as Self

Paint It Red
Movie · as Adele

Get Married or Die
Movie · as Margaret

Sarah Q
Movie · as Helena

Extinction
Movie · as Rose

The Most Hated Woman in America
Movie · as Lena Christina

Gnaw
Movie · as Claudette Grim

Price for Freedom
Movie · as Francine Wayne

Nerdland
Movie · as Older Woman (voice)

Trash Fire
Movie · as Florence

Buddy Solitaire
Movie · as Hanna

Lights Out
Movie · as Rose

Buddy Hutchins
Movie · as Bertha

The Code of Cain
Movie · as Elisabeth

All I Want for Christmas
Movie · as Gwen

Tom in America
Movie · as Betty

Suburban Gothic
Movie · as Virginia

Archaeology of a Woman
Movie · as Margaret

Slut
Movie · as Grandma

Mystical Traveler: The Life and Times of Dr. John-Roger
Movie · as Self
The Bride From Vegas
Movie

Jack the Reaper
Movie · as Harold's Nana

Awakened
Movie · as Harriet Bendi

Curse of the Sunset Starlet
Movie · as Gigi

The Visitor from Planet Omicron
Movie · as Jen

Broken Roads
Movie · as Mrs. Wallace

Stars in Shorts
Movie · as Madame Ulaila

The Wayshower
Movie · as Jeena

A Bag of Hammers
Movie · as Older Jewish Lady

The Wishmakers
Movie · as Mary

House Under Siege
Movie · as Pat Mazur

Not Your Time
Movie · as Madame Ulaila

Flexing with Monty
Movie · as Lillith

Urgency
Movie · as Mediator

Spiritual Warriors
Movie · as Realtor

Mollie & Friends
Movie · as Elizabeth St. James

Big Stan
Movie · as Madame Foreman

Resurrection Mary
Movie · as Lois

Richard III
Movie · as Queen Margaret

Hollywood Dreams
Movie

Head Case
TV · as Dr. Goode's Mother · 1 ep

Fingerprints
Movie · as Mary

Coffee Date
Movie · as Mrs. Muller
A-list
Movie

Courts mais Gay : Tome 11
Movie · as Rachel

Off the Black
Movie · as Marianne Reynolds

Factory Girl
Movie · as Grandma Sedgwick (uncredited)

Adam & Steve
Movie · as Mary

Neo Ned
Movie · as Shelly Nelson

Chandler Hall
Movie · as Sally

What's Up, Scarlet?
Movie · as Ruth Zabrinski

Wanted
TV · as Sheila Beckwith · 1 ep

An Eye for an Eye
Movie · as Rachel

Mango Kiss
Movie · as Emilia

Bloodlines
Movie · as Joyce

Bruce Almighty
Movie · as Anita

Wish You Were Dead
Movie · as Penelope Wilson

The Rose Technique
Movie · as Helen

Night of the Wolf
Movie · as Rose Handy

Boxer Shorts
Movie

Audit
Movie · as Raissa
Thank You, Good Night
Movie · as Doreen

Out of the Black
Movie · as Elizabeth Malby

A Month of Sundays
Movie · as Katherine St. Croix

Circuit
Movie · as Club Cashier
The Boys Behind the Desk
Movie

Another Woman's Husband
Movie · as Roxie

Strong Medicine
TV · as Stella Riggs, Peter's Mother · 1 ep

EDtv
Movie · as Jeanette

Starry Night
Movie · as Detective Brook Murphy

Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
Movie · as Self

Wilbur Falls
Movie · as Roberta Devereaux
Paranoia
Movie · as Dr. Kurtzwell

Brave New World
Movie · as Linda
Norma Jean, Jack, and Me
Movie · as Marilyn Monroe

Felicity
TV · as Professor Annie Sherman · 4 eps

Little Ghost
Movie · as Mother Ghost

Amnesia
Movie · as Charlene Hunt

The Westing Game
Movie · as Sydelle Pulaski

Excess Baggage
Movie · as Louise

The Hunger
TV · as Mrs. Garington · 1 ep

Women: Stories of Passion
TV · as Annie · 1 ep

Film Independent Spirit Awards
TV · as Self - Audience Member · 1 ep

Guns & Lipstick
Movie · as Danielle Roberts

Picture Windows
TV · as Blossom · 1 ep

Picture Windows: Song of Songs
Movie · as Blossom

Valley of the Dolls
TV · as Helen Lawson · 1 ep

Gunmen
Movie · as Bennett

Stranger Than Love
Movie · as Laura Frossky

Cheatin' Hearts
Movie · as Jenny

Eye of the Stranger
Movie · as Lori

The Woman Who Loved Elvis
Movie · as Sandee Sloop

Double Deception
Movie · as Anita Cortez

The Nanny
TV · as Tattoo Lady · 1 ep

The Player
Movie · as Sally Kirkland
The Bulkin Trail
Movie · as Selma Bulkin

In the Heat of Passion
Movie · as Lee Adams

Hit the Dutchman
Movie · as Emma Flegenheimer

Double Threat
Movie · as Monica Martel

Primary Motive
Movie · as Helen Poulas

Forever
Movie · as Angelica

Stringer
Movie · as Joan Pezanasky

Double Jeopardy
Movie · as Detective Phyllis Camden

Blast 'Em
Movie · as Self

Jack's Place
TV · 1 ep

JFK
Movie · as Rose Cheramie

The Haunted
Movie · as Janet Smurl

Grave Images
Movie · as Caitlin

Revenge
Movie · as Rock Star

Two Evil Eyes
Movie · as Eleonora

Bullseye!
Movie · as Willie

Paint It Black
Movie · as Marion Easton
Largo Desolato
Movie · as Suzana

Heat Wave
Movie · as Mrs. Canfield

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Movie · as Self

Cold Feet
Movie · as Maureen

White Hot
Movie · as Harriet

Best of the Best
Movie · as Catherine Wade

High Stakes
Movie · as Melanie Rose

Hello Actors Studio
Movie · as Self

Roseanne
TV · 1 ep

Anna
Movie · as Anna

Talking Walls
Movie · as Hooker

Fatal Games
Movie · as Diane Paine

Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Evelyn Colby · 1 ep

A Rose for Emily
Movie · as Gossip

Love Letters
Movie · as Hippie

Human Highway
Movie · as Kathryn

Double Exposure
Movie · as Hooker

The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Movie · as Cashier

Falcon Crest
TV · as Ella · 2 eps

The Georgia Peaches
Movie · as Vivian Stark

Private Benjamin
Movie · as Helga

The Illegal
Movie · as Don Tony's Girlfriend

Hometown U.S.A.
Movie · as Gwen

Supertrain
TV · as Katherine Sully · 1 ep

Flush
Movie · as Janet

Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?
Movie · as Della Bianco

Making It In Hollywood
Movie · as Self

Lou Grant
TV · 1 ep

Three's Company
TV · as Sally · 1 ep

The Incredible Hulk
TV · as Margaret Hollinger · 1 ep

Griffin and Phoenix
Movie · as Jody

Pipe Dreams
Movie · as Two-Street Betty

A Star Is Born
Movie · as Photographer

Tracks
Movie · as Train Passenger

Charlie's Angels
TV · as Lonnie, Laurie Archer · 1 ep

Captains and the Kings
TV · as Aggie · 8 eps

Breakheart Pass
Movie · as Jane-Marie

Bite the Bullet
Movie · as Honey

Crazy Mama
Movie · as Ella Mae

The Noah
Movie · as Friday-Anne

The Kansas City Massacre
Movie · as Wilma Floyd

Death Scream
Movie · as Mary

Starsky & Hutch
TV · as Greta Wren / Dora Pruitt · 1 ep

Baretta
TV · 1 ep

Bronk
TV · 2 eps

Big Bad Mama
Movie · as Barney's Woman

Candy Stripe Nurses
Movie · as Wife in Clinic

Blazing Saddles
Movie · as Cashier (uncredited)

Petrocelli
TV · 1 ep

The Way We Were
Movie · as Pony Dunbar

The Sting
Movie · as Crystal

Fade In
Movie · as Herself

The Young Nurses
Movie · as Woman at clinic

Cinderella Liberty
Movie · as Fleet Chick

Blume in Love
Movie · as Party Guest (uncredited)

Kojak
TV · as Gloria, Shirley, Clara · 1 ep

The Rookies
TV · 1 ep

Going Home
Movie · as Ann Graham

Jump
Movie · as Lou (uncredited)

Brand X
Movie · as Patient / President's Wife

Coming Apart
Movie · as Joann

Futz
Movie · as Merry Lee

Hawaii Five-O
TV · as Betty Rowan · 1 ep

Blue
Movie · as Sarah Lambert
Satisfaction
Movie · as The Nun
Dirt
Movie

Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Movie · as Self

13 Most Beautiful Women
Movie
SCREEN TEST [ST181]: SALLY KIRKLAND
Movie · as self

Hey, Let's Twist!
Movie · as Peppermint Club Dancer (uncredited)

Crack in the Mirror
Movie · as Bit Part (uncredited)



