Sally Kirkland
Acting

Sally Kirkland

Born 31 October 1941 · New York City, New York, USA · Died 11 November 2025

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
The Sting
JFK
The Nanny
Big Stan
The Player
EDtv
The Way We Were
The Incredible Hulk
Revenge
Murder, She Wrote
Private Benjamin
Aftermath
Skeletons in the Closet
80 for Brady
The New Hands
Here We Are
Woods Witch
When It Rings
Altered Perceptions
Holiday Boyfriend
Bobcat Moretti
Lost Explorer
The Haunting of Hell Hole Mine
The Walk
Murder, Anyone?
The Magic
The Final Code
The Woman in the Room
Magic Max
Hope For The Holidays
Invincible
A Medicine for the Mind
Cuck
Acceleration
The Second Coming of Christ
Los Angeles Overnight
Making a Killing
Paint It Red
Get Married or Die
Sarah Q
Extinction
The Most Hated Woman in America
Gnaw
Price for Freedom
Nerdland
Trash Fire
Buddy Solitaire
Lights Out
Buddy Hutchins
The Code of Cain
All I Want for Christmas
Tom in America
Suburban Gothic
Archaeology of a Woman
Slut
Jack the Reaper
Awakened
Curse of the Sunset Starlet
The Visitor from Planet Omicron
Broken Roads
Stars in Shorts
The Wayshower
A Bag of Hammers
The Wishmakers
House Under Siege
Not Your Time
Flexing with Monty
Urgency
Spiritual Warriors
Mollie & Friends
Big Stan
Resurrection Mary
Richard III
Hollywood Dreams
Fingerprints
Coffee Date
Courts mais Gay : Tome 11
Off the Black
Adam & Steve
Neo Ned
Chandler Hall
What's Up, Scarlet?
An Eye for an Eye
Mango Kiss
Bloodlines
Bruce Almighty
Wish You Were Dead
The Rose Technique
Night of the Wolf
Boxer Shorts
Audit
Out of the Black
A Month of Sundays
Circuit
Another Woman's Husband
EDtv
Starry Night
Wilbur Falls
Brave New World
Little Ghost
Amnesia
The Westing Game
Excess Baggage
Guns & Lipstick
Picture Windows: Song of Songs
Gunmen
Stranger Than Love
Cheatin' Hearts
Eye of the Stranger
The Woman Who Loved Elvis
Double Deception
The Player
In the Heat of Passion
Hit the Dutchman
Double Threat
Primary Motive
Forever
Stringer
Double Jeopardy
JFK
The Haunted
Grave Images
Revenge
Two Evil Eyes
Bullseye!
Paint It Black
Heat Wave
Cold Feet
White Hot
Best of the Best
High Stakes
Anna
Talking Walls
Fatal Games
A Rose for Emily
Love Letters
Human Highway
Double Exposure
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
The Georgia Peaches
Private Benjamin
The Illegal
Hometown U.S.A.
Flush
Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?
Griffin and Phoenix
Pipe Dreams
A Star Is Born
Tracks
Breakheart Pass
Bite the Bullet
Crazy Mama
The Noah
The Kansas City Massacre
Death Scream
Big Bad Mama
Candy Stripe Nurses
The Way We Were
The Sting
The Young Nurses
Cinderella Liberty
Going Home
Brand X
Coming Apart
Futz
Blue
Sally Kirkland · Midrow