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Sally Kirkland
Kirkland in 2014
Born	(1941-10-31) October 31, 1941 (age 83) New York City, U.S.
Alma mater	Actors Studio American Academy of Dramatic Arts
Occupation(s)	Actress, producer
Years active	1962–present
Spouse	Michael R. Jarrett ​ ​(m. 1974; div. 1975)​
Mother	Sally Kirkland
Awards	Awards

Sally Kirkland Jr. (born October 31, 1941) is an American 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 garnered widespread critical acclaim for her eponymous performance as a former popular actress in the independent comedy-drama Anna (1987), which earned her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film.

She also earned a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for her performance in the horror film The Haunted (1991). She is also known for her roles in Cold Feet (1989), Best of the Best (1989), JFK (1991) and Bruce Almighty (2003).

Early life

Kirkland was born on October 31, 1941, in New York City. She was named after her mother, Sally Kirkland (born Sarah Phinney), who was a fashion editor at Vogue and LIFE magazines, and was raised in Oklahoma. Her father, Frederic McMichael Kirkland, worked in the scrap metal business. Kirkland started out as a Vogue model and then studied at the Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg and Uta Hagen. Kirkland graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1961.

Career

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Sally Kirkland 1969

1962–86: Initial work

Kirkland began acting Off-Broadway in 1963. She joined Andy Warhol's The Factory and appeared nude and tied to a chair for 45 minutes in the 1964 drama film The 13 Most Beautiful Women. By 1964, Kirkland was deeply involved in the New York'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. Four years later, she returned to film, appearing in the western Blue, and the following year starred in the underground film Coming Apart (1969).

Kirkland spent the 1970s and most of the 1980s playing secondary roles in film include Going Home (1971), The Young Nurses (1973), The Way We Were (1973), The Sting (1973), Big Bad Mama (1974), Crazy Mama (1975), A Star Is Born (1976) and Private Benjamin (1980). She played a leading role in the 1984 horror film Fatal Games. Her television credits include guest-starring roles on Hawaii Five-O, Police Story, The Rookies, Three's Company, Kojak, Starsky & Hutch, Charlie's Angels and Falcon Crest.

1987–1999: Critical acclaim and awards success

In 1987, Kirkland received widespread critical acclaim for her eponymous performance as a former popular actress in the independent comedy-drama Anna. The Washington Post deemed her performance as "superb" and the Los Angeles Times rated her as one of the best actresses of the decade. She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead, in addition to a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She next acted in second-grade films include Cold Feet (1989), Paint It Black (1989) and Two Evil Eyes (1990).

In 1990s, Kirkland starred in action comedy Bullseye! (1990) opposite Michael Caine, and played supporting roles in films Revenge (1990), JFK (1991), The Player (1992), Gunmen (1994), Excess Baggage (1997) and EDtv (1999). She starred in the erotic thrillers In the Heat of Passion and Double Threat in 1992, which found success in home video releases. She found better success on television, playing leading roles in a number of made-for-television movies, and starring in the syndicated soap opera Valley of the Dolls in 1994. In 1990, she also played Truvy Jones in the television adaptation of Steel Magnolias. For her performance in the television film The Haunted (1991), Kirkland received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film. She guest-starred in Roseanne, Murder, She Wrote and The Nanny. In 1999, she had a recurring roles in Felicity and Days of Our Lives.

2000–present: Later career

In 2000s, she played supporting roles in films include Bruce Almighty (2003), Adam & Steve (2005) and Big Stan (2007).

Kirkland hosted a weekly program on the syndicated HealthyLife Radio Network. In 2019, she starred in the film Cuck. In 2020, she starred in the Amazon release film Hope For The Holidays with Robert Lasardo, Doug Hutchison, Alex Cubis and George Stults.

Other work and activism

Kirkland is also a health activist including advocating for women harmed by breast implants. She founded the Kirkland Institute for Implant Survival Syndrome in August 1998.

Kirkland is an ordained minister in the church of Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness.

She is a gallery-shown painter and a noted acting teacher whose students have included Sandra Bullock, Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, Dwight Yoakam, and Roseanne Barr, among others.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

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4. ^ www.adam-makes-websites.com, Adam Jones-. "Awards for 1987 – LAFCA". www.lafca.net. Retrieved December 31, 2020.
5. ^ "Other Critics, Other Choices for the best in film fare". The Philadelphia Inquirer. February 21, 1988. Retrieved December 31, 2020.
6. "Best of The Best". Los Angeles Times. November 19, 1989. p. 151. Retrieved December 31, 2020.
7. Canby, Vincent (December 20, 1991). "Review/Film: J.F.K.; When Everything Amounts to Nothing (Published 1991)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 31, 2020.
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17. "Picking the Decade's Best Directors, Performances". Los Angeles Times. December 29, 1989. p. 97. Retrieved December 31, 2020.
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22. "'Cuck': Film Review | Hollywood Reporter". www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 2, 2019. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
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24. "K.I.I.S.S Kirkland Institute of Implant Survival Syndrome". Sallykirkland.com.
25. Stanley, John (May 5, 1991). "Who Ya Gonna Call? / Sally Kirkland vs. ghosts in "fact'-based "The Haunted'". San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco, California. p. 48.
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28. "A Woman of Meditation and a Million Words". Los Angeles Times. August 27, 2002. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
29. http://# (December 12, 2020). "Sally Kirkland Stars In A New Must-See Movie, 'Hope For The Holidays'". Instinct Magazine. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
30. McNary, Dave (July 27, 2017). "Sally Kirkland, Mel Novak Starring in Thriller 'When It Rings' (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved July 28, 2017.

External links

• Official website
• Sally Kirkland at IMDb 
• Sally Kirkland at the Internet Broadway Database
• Sally Kirkland at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Sally Kirkland at the TCM Movie Database
• Sally Kirkland at AllMovie
• Sally Kirkland at the University of Wisconsin's Actors Studio audio collection

• 1941 births
• Living people
• 20th-century American actresses
• 21st-century American actresses
• Actresses from New York City
• Actresses from Philadelphia
• American film actresses
• American health activists
• American stage actresses
• American television actresses
• Best Drama Actress Golden Globe (film) winners
• Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead winners
• Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness
• The Masters School alumni
• Oceanside International Film Festival award winners