Sally Kirkland

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1941-10-31

Day of Death

2025-11-11

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Sally Kirkland

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).

Filmography (182)

⭐ 0 Role: Self

SEGAL

⭐ 8.0 Role: Self

Sallywood

⭐ 4.9 Role: Dr. Jane

Aftermath

⭐ 4.3 Role: Madam Futura

Skeletons in the Closet

⭐ 3.7 Role: Charlotte

Woods Witch

⭐ 6.0 Role: Alice

Holiday Boyfriend

⭐ 0 Role: Annette

Lost Explorer

⭐ 0 Role: Lesley Judd

When It Rings

⭐ 3.0 Role: Theresa Morgan

Altered Perceptions

⭐ 0 Role: Sherri

Here We Are

⭐ 5.5 Role: Helene Moretti

Bobcat Moretti

⭐ 3.5 Role: Doctor Parker

The Haunting of Hell Hole Mine

⭐ 0 Role: May

The New Hands

⭐ 6.2 Role: Ida

80 for Brady

⭐ 5.4 Role: Nancy

Murder, Anyone?

⭐ 5.8 Role: Mrs. Kelley

The Walk

⭐ 2.0 Role: Rose Buchanan

The Magic

⭐ 4.4 Role: Doctor Holly

The Final Code

⭐ 5.0 Role: Mother

The Woman in the Room

⭐ 5.8 Role: Elaine Hart

Magic Max

⭐ 0 Role: Georgia Petros

Hope For The Holidays

⭐ 0 Role: Sandra

A Medicine for the Mind

⭐ 5.2 Role: Dr. Quade

Invincible

⭐ 5.4 Role: Betty

Acceleration

⭐ 4.5 Role: Mother

Cuck

⭐ 6.0 Role: Helena

Sarah Q

⭐ 5.2 Role: Dolores

Making a Killing

⭐ 7.4 Role: Adele

Paint It Red

⭐ 4.2 Role: Mrs. Chantilly

Los Angeles Overnight

⭐ 3.8 Role: Stella

The Second Coming of Christ

⭐ 7.5 Role: Self

Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

⭐ 0 Role: Margaret

Get Married or Die

⭐ 5.4 Role: Claudette Grim

Gnaw

⭐ 2.0 Role: Francine Wayne

Price for Freedom

⭐ 6.2 Role: Lena Christina

The Most Hated Woman in America

⭐ 6.0 Role: Rose

Extinction

⭐ 5.6 Role: Older Woman (voice)

Nerdland

⭐ 5.8 Role: Florence

Trash Fire

⭐ 5.0 Role: Hanna

Buddy Solitaire

⭐ 0 Role: Rose

Lights Out

⭐ 2.0 Role: Elisabeth

The Code of Cain

⭐ 3.8 Role: Bertha

Buddy Hutchins

⭐ 5.0 Role: Gwen

All I Want for Christmas

⭐ 6.0 Role: Grandma

Slut

⭐ 0 Role: Margaret

Archaeology of a Woman

⭐ 5.5 Role: Virginia

Suburban Gothic

⭐ 2.0 Role: Self

Mystical Traveler: The Life and Times of Dr. John-Roger

⭐ 5.1 Role: Betty

Tom in America

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

The Bride From Vegas

⭐ 4.5 Role: Harold's Nana

Jack the Reaper

⭐ 4.1 Role: Harriet Bendi

Awakened

⭐ 0 Role: Gigi

Curse of the Sunset Starlet

⭐ 0 Role: Jen

The Visitor from Planet Omicron

⭐ 4.2 Role: Mrs. Wallace

Broken Roads

⭐ 6.0 Role: Madame Ulaila

Stars in Shorts

⭐ 3.7 Role: Mary

The Wishmakers

⭐ 1.4 Role: Jeena

The Wayshower

⭐ 5.9 Role: Older Jewish Lady

A Bag of Hammers

⭐ 1.0 Role: Madame Ulaila

Not Your Time

⭐ 3.5 Role: Pat Mazur

House Under Siege

⭐ 3.8 Role: Lillith

Flexing with Monty

⭐ 2.9 Role: Mediator

Urgency

⭐ 10.0 Role: Realtor

Spiritual Warriors

⭐ 0 Role: Elizabeth St. James

Mollie & Friends

⭐ 6.6 Role: Madame Foreman

Big Stan

⭐ 3.3 Role: Lois

Resurrection Mary

⭐ 2.0 Role: Queen Margaret

Richard III

⭐ 3.1 Role: Unknown

Hollywood Dreams

⭐ 6.0 Role: Grandma Sedgwick (uncredited)

Factory Girl

⭐ 5.8 Role: Marianne Reynolds

Off the Black

⭐ 5.0 Role: Mrs. Muller

Coffee Date

⭐ 5.7 Role: Mary

Fingerprints

⭐ 7.0 Role: Unknown

A-list

⭐ 0 Role: Rachel

Courts mais Gay : Tome 11

⭐ 7.0 Role: Sally

Chandler Hall

⭐ 4.6 Role: Ruth Zabrinski

What's Up, Scarlet?

⭐ 5.5 Role: Mary

Adam & Steve

⭐ 6.0 Role: Shelly Nelson

Neo Ned

⭐ 7.0 Role: Joyce

Bloodlines

⭐ 8.0 Role: Rachel

An Eye for an Eye

⭐ 4.3 Role: Emilia

Mango Kiss

⭐ 6.7 Role: Anita

Bruce Almighty

⭐ 5.4 Role: Unknown

Boxer Shorts

⭐ 5.3 Role: Penelope Wilson

Wish You Were Dead

⭐ 6.0 Role: Rose Handy

Night of the Wolf

⭐ 3.3 Role: Helen

The Rose Technique

⭐ 5.7 Role: Club Cashier

Circuit

⭐ 4.7 Role: Katherine St. Croix

A Month of Sundays

⭐ 4.5 Role: Elizabeth Malby

Out of the Black

⭐ 4.6 Role: Raissa

Audit

⭐ 7.0 Role: Doreen

Thank You, Good Night

⭐ 4.0 Role: Roxie

Another Woman's Husband

⭐ 7.0 Role: Unknown

The Boys Behind the Desk

⭐ 5.9 Role: Jeanette

EDtv

⭐ 4.5 Role: Detective Brook Murphy

Starry Night

⭐ 4.3 Role: Roberta Devereaux

Wilbur Falls

⭐ 5.1 Role: Dr. Kurtzwell

Paranoia

⭐ 5.5 Role: Linda

Brave New World

⭐ 3.0 Role: Self

Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs

⭐ 10.0 Role: Marilyn Monroe

Norma Jean, Jack, and Me

⭐ 5.9 Role: Mother Ghost

Little Ghost

⭐ 8.0 Role: Sydelle Pulaski

The Westing Game

⭐ 6.1 Role: Louise

Excess Baggage

⭐ 4.8 Role: Charlene Hunt

Amnesia

⭐ 4.2 Role: Danielle Roberts

Guns & Lipstick

⭐ 8.0 Role: Blossom

Picture Windows: Song of Songs

⭐ 3.7 Role: Jenny

Cheatin' Hearts

⭐ 8.5 Role: Anita Cortez

Double Deception

⭐ 4.9 Role: Bennett

Gunmen

⭐ 4.9 Role: Lori

Eye of the Stranger

⭐ 6.3 Role: Sandee Sloop

The Woman Who Loved Elvis

⭐ 0 Role: Laura Frossky

Stranger Than Love

⭐ 4.0 Role: Monica Martel

Double Threat

⭐ 5.2 Role: Detective Phyllis Camden

Double Jeopardy

⭐ 7.0 Role: Helen Poulas

Primary Motive

⭐ 8.5 Role: Emma Flegenheimer

Hit the Dutchman

⭐ 7.2 Role: Sally Kirkland

The Player

⭐ 4.1 Role: Lee Adams

In the Heat of Passion

⭐ 7.0 Role: Selma Bulkin

The Bulkin Trail

⭐ 2.6 Role: Angelica

Forever

⭐ 6.3 Role: Joan Pezanasky

Stringer

⭐ 7.6 Role: Rose Cheramie

JFK

⭐ 5.9 Role: Janet Smurl

The Haunted

⭐ 1.0 Role: Caitlin

Grave Images

⭐ 5.3 Role: Willie

Bullseye!

⭐ 6.8 Role: Mrs. Canfield

Heat Wave

⭐ 7.2 Role: Self

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

⭐ 8.0 Role: Suzana

Largo Desolato

⭐ 3.0 Role: Marion Easton

Paint It Black

⭐ 6.5 Role: Rock Star

Revenge

⭐ 6.1 Role: Eleonora

Two Evil Eyes

⭐ 6.5 Role: Catherine Wade

Best of the Best

⭐ 3.4 Role: Melanie Rose

High Stakes

⭐ 4.1 Role: Maureen

Cold Feet

⭐ 3.8 Role: Harriet

White Hot

⭐ 6.7 Role: Self

Hello Actors Studio

⭐ 5.2 Role: Anna

Anna

⭐ 3.5 Role: Hooker

Talking Walls

⭐ 4.4 Role: Diane Paine

Fatal Games

⭐ 6.5 Role: Gossip

A Rose for Emily

⭐ 5.6 Role: Hippie

Love Letters

⭐ 5.1 Role: Kathryn

Human Highway

⭐ 4.5 Role: Hooker

Double Exposure

⭐ 5.4 Role: Cashier

The Incredible Shrinking Woman

⭐ 5.9 Role: Vivian Stark

The Georgia Peaches

⭐ 6.0 Role: Helga

Private Benjamin

⭐ 6.7 Role: Don Tony's Girlfriend

The Illegal

⭐ 4.0 Role: Gwen

Hometown U.S.A.

⭐ 3.3 Role: Janet

Flush

⭐ 9.0 Role: Della Bianco

Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?

⭐ 6.0 Role: Photographer

A Star Is Born

⭐ 5.6 Role: Train Passenger

Tracks

⭐ 7.0 Role: Two-Street Betty

Pipe Dreams

⭐ 5.3 Role: Jody

Griffin and Phoenix

⭐ 6.6 Role: Jane-Marie

Breakheart Pass

⭐ 6.5 Role: Honey

Bite the Bullet

⭐ 6.6 Role: Mary

Death Scream

⭐ 5.8 Role: Wilma Floyd

The Kansas City Massacre

⭐ 5.6 Role: Ella Mae

Crazy Mama

⭐ 6.0 Role: Friday-Anne

The Noah

⭐ 5.7 Role: Barney's Woman

Big Bad Mama

⭐ 4.4 Role: Wife in Clinic

Candy Stripe Nurses

⭐ 7.2 Role: Cashier (uncredited)

Blazing Saddles

⭐ 8.0 Role: Crystal

The Sting

⭐ 6.7 Role: Fleet Chick

Cinderella Liberty

⭐ 4.2 Role: Herself

Fade In

⭐ 7.0 Role: Pony Dunbar

The Way We Were

⭐ 5.8 Role: Party Guest (uncredited)

Blume in Love

⭐ 4.0 Role: Woman at clinic

The Young Nurses

⭐ 6.4 Role: Ann Graham

Going Home

⭐ 9.0 Role: Lou (uncredited)

Jump

⭐ 4.5 Role: Patient / President's Wife

Brand X

⭐ 4.5 Role: Merry Lee

Futz

⭐ 6.2 Role: Joann

Coming Apart

⭐ 5.7 Role: Sarah Lambert

Blue

⭐ 0 Role: The Nun

Satisfaction

⭐ 8.0 Role: Self

Andy Warhol Screen Tests

⭐ 7.7 Role: Unknown

Dirt

⭐ 8.0 Role: Unknown

13 Most Beautiful Women

⭐ 0 Role: self

SCREEN TEST [ST181]: SALLY KIRKLAND

⭐ 5.0 Role: Peppermint Club Dancer (uncredited)

Hey, Let's Twist!

⭐ 7.5 Role: Bit Part (uncredited)

Crack in the Mirror