Sally Kirkland
Acting
Born: October 31, 1941 · New York City, New York, USA
Died: November 11, 2025 (aged 84)
Highest Rated
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).
Known for
Bruce Almighty
2003
The Sting
1973
JFK
1991
Blazing Saddles
1974
The Nanny
1993
Big Stan
2007
The Player
1992
EDtv
1999
The Way We Were
1973
The Incredible Hulk
1977
Revenge
1990
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Photos (4)
Movies (162)
Bruce Almighty
Anita
The Sting
Crystal
Big Stan
Madame Foreman
Blazing Saddles
Cashier (uncredited)
JFK
Rose Cheramie
The Player
Sally Kirkland
Private Benjamin
Helga
The Way We Were
Pony Dunbar
Best of the Best
Catherine Wade
80 for Brady
Ida
Revenge
Rock Star
EDtv
Jeanette
Excess Baggage
Louise
Big Bad Mama
Barney's Woman
A Star Is Born
Photographer
Factory Girl
Grandma Sedgwick (uncredited)
Nerdland
Older Woman (voice)
Breakheart Pass
Jane-Marie
Two Evil Eyes
Eleonora
Acceleration
Betty
Amnesia
Charlene Hunt
Bite the Bullet
Honey
The Haunted
Janet Smurl
Gunmen
Bennett
The Most Hated Woman in America
Lena Christina
Crazy Mama
Ella Mae
Love Letters
Hippie
Bobcat Moretti
Helene Moretti
A Bag of Hammers
Older Jewish Lady
Cinderella Liberty
Fleet Chick
Mango Kiss
Emilia
Blue
Sarah Lambert
Cheatin' Hearts
Jenny
Double Exposure
Hooker
Trash Fire
Florence
Brave New World
Linda
Double Jeopardy
Detective Phyllis Camden
Adam & Steve
Mary
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Cashier
Fatal Games
Diane Paine
White Hot
Harriet
Blume in Love
Party Guest (uncredited)
Cuck
Mother
Coffee Date
Mrs. Muller
Human Highway
Kathryn
Fingerprints
Mary
Off the Black
Marianne Reynolds
Holiday Boyfriend
Alice
The Haunting of Hell Hole Mine
Doctor Parker
Starry Night
Detective Brook Murphy
An Eye for an Eye
Rachel
Wish You Were Dead
Penelope Wilson
Bullseye!
Willie
Brand X
Patient / President's Wife
The Walk
Mrs. Kelley
Magic Max
Elaine Hart
Woods Witch
Charlotte
Death Scream
Mary
The Woman Who Loved Elvis
Sandee Sloop
Suburban Gothic
Virginia
Flush
Janet
Stars in Shorts
Madame Ulaila
Double Threat
Monica Martel
Circuit
Club Cashier
Slut
Grandma
Gnaw
Claudette Grim
Making a Killing
Dolores
Invincible
Dr. Quade
High Stakes
Melanie Rose
Anna
Anna
Hollywood Dreams
2007
Neo Ned
Shelly Nelson
Not Your Time
Madame Ulaila
Murder, Anyone?
Nancy
Skeletons in the Closet
Madam Futura
The Westing Game
Sydelle Pulaski
Tracks
Train Passenger
Heat Wave
Mrs. Canfield
Griffin and Phoenix
Jody
The Second Coming of Christ
Stella
Out of the Black
Elizabeth Malby
Crack in the Mirror
Bit Part (uncredited)
Double Deception
Anita Cortez
Forever
Angelica
Wilbur Falls
Roberta Devereaux
Richard III
Queen Margaret
Hey, Let's Twist!
Peppermint Club Dancer (uncredited)
In the Heat of Passion
Lee Adams
All I Want for Christmas
Gwen
Paint It Red
Adele
Paint It Black
Marion Easton
Boxer Shorts
2002
The Code of Cain
Elisabeth
Talking Walls
Hooker
Stranger Than Love
Laura Frossky
Awakened
Harriet Bendi
Cold Feet
Maureen
A Month of Sundays
Katherine St. Croix
The Georgia Peaches
Vivian Stark
What's Up, Scarlet?
Ruth Zabrinski
Guns & Lipstick
Danielle Roberts
The Wayshower
Jeena
The Noah
Friday-Anne
The Kansas City Massacre
Wilma Floyd
The Young Nurses
Woman at clinic
Flexing with Monty
Lillith
Urgency
Mediator
Jack the Reaper
Harold's Nana
Curse of the Sunset Starlet
Gigi
Los Angeles Overnight
Mrs. Chantilly
Candy Stripe Nurses
Wife in Clinic
Little Ghost
Mother Ghost
Going Home
Ann Graham
House Under Siege
Pat Mazur
Aftermath
Dr. Jane
Primary Motive
Helen Poulas
The Magic
Rose Buchanan
A Rose for Emily
Gossip
Lost Explorer
Annette
The Rose Technique
Helen
Another Woman's Husband
Roxie
Buddy Hutchins
Bertha
13 Most Beautiful Women
1964
Mollie & Friends
Elizabeth St. James
When It Rings
Lesley Judd
Grave Images
Caitlin
Tom in America
Betty
Picture Windows: Song of Songs
Blossom
The Final Code
Doctor Holly
Coming Apart
Joann
Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?
Della Bianco
Audit
Raissa
Night of the Wolf
Rose Handy
A Medicine for the Mind
Sandra
Get Married or Die
Margaret
Lights Out
Rose
Hope For The Holidays
Georgia Petros
Broken Roads
Mrs. Wallace
Here We Are
Sherri
Courts mais Gay : Tome 11
Rachel
Pipe Dreams
Two-Street Betty
Price for Freedom
Francine Wayne
Altered Perceptions
Theresa Morgan
Chandler Hall
Sally
The New Hands
May
Jump
Lou (uncredited)
Hit the Dutchman
Emma Flegenheimer
The Wishmakers
Mary
Resurrection Mary
Lois
Futz
Merry Lee
Sarah Q
Helena
Hometown U.S.A.
Gwen
Buddy Solitaire
Hanna
Eye of the Stranger
Lori
Stringer
Joan Pezanasky
Spiritual Warriors
Realtor
Archaeology of a Woman
Margaret
The Illegal
Don Tony's Girlfriend
Bloodlines
Joyce
The Woman in the Room
Mother
Extinction
Rose
The Visitor from Planet Omicron
Jen
TV Shows (29)
The Nanny
Tattoo Lady · 1 eps
Murder, She Wrote
Evelyn Colby · 1 eps
Hawaii Five-O
Betty Rowan · 1 eps
Falcon Crest
Ella · 2 eps
Strong Medicine
Stella Riggs, Peter's Mother · 1 eps
Charlie's Angels
Lonnie · 1 eps
Charlie's Angels
Laurie Archer · 1 eps
The Incredible Hulk
Margaret Hollinger · 1 eps
Starsky & Hutch
Greta Wren / Dora Pruitt · 1 eps
Felicity
Professor Annie Sherman · 4 eps
Three's Company
Sally · 1 eps
Lou Grant
1 eps
Baretta
1 eps
Kojak
Gloria · 1 eps
Kojak
Shirley · 1 eps
Kojak
Clara · 1 eps
The Rookies
1 eps
The Hunger
Mrs. Garington · 1 eps
Petrocelli
1 eps
Bronk
2 eps
Head Case
Dr. Goode's Mother · 1 eps
Roseanne
1 eps
Wanted
Sheila Beckwith · 1 eps
Supertrain
Katherine Sully · 1 eps
Captains and the Kings
Aggie · 8 eps
Jack's Place
1 eps
Women: Stories of Passion
Annie · 1 eps
Picture Windows
Blossom · 1 eps
Valley of the Dolls
Helen Lawson · 1 eps
Self / Appearances (10)
Blast 'Em
Self
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
Self
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Self
Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
Self
Hello Actors Studio
Self
Mystical Traveler: The Life and Times of Dr. John-Roger
Self
Fade In
Herself
SEGAL
Self
Sallywood
Self
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Self