Sally Kirkland

Infobox actor

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caption = at the 79th Annual Academy Awards Children Uniting Nations/Billboard afterparty
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birthdate = birth date and age|1941|10|31
birthplace = New York City, New York, U.S.
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academyawards = Nominated: Best Actress
1987 "Anna"
goldenglobeawards = Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
1988 "Anna"

Sally Kirkland (born October 31, 1941) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress.

Biography

Early life

Kirkland was born in New York City and was the goddaughter of Shelley Winters. She was named after her mother, fashion editor Sally Kirkland, who was a fashion editor at "Vogue" and "LIFE" magazines. [ [http://www.moxiemag.com/moxie/articles/identity/sally.html Straight to the Heart of Hollywood Moxie: A Candid Interview with Sally Kirkland] Moxie Magazine. 2000.] Her father, Frederic McMichael Kirkland, worked in the scrap metal business. [ [http://www.filmreference.com/film/67/Sally-Kirkland.html Sally Kirkland Biography (1941-) ] ] Kirkland was a student of Lee Strasberg and a member of the Andy Warhol coterie.

Career

Kirkland began acting Off-Broadway in 1962, and has been said to have been the first actress to appear nude in legitimate theater, in a 1968 production of "Sweet Eros". In the 1970s, she had small roles in popular films such as "The Sting", "The Way We Were", "A Star Is Born" and "Private Benjamin". She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1987 for "Anna", for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama. She lost the Oscar that year to Cher in "Moonstruck".

Kirkland has also had frequent television roles, including "Valley of the Dolls" and the soap opera "Days of Our Lives".

Her film roles also include playing the mother in "EDtv", Oliver Stone's "JFK", the romantic comedy "The Last Guy on Earth", the Nick Nolte drama "Off The Black", "Adam and Steve" and "Coffee Date".

Kirkland also appeared on in 2007.

Personal life

Kirkland is a minister in the Church of The Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, an artist, and teaches yoga and meditation and drama. She 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. In October, 2006, Kirkland joined Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, in marching for Peace in Los Angeles. [ [http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=15492 Gandhi Grandson to Lead Peace Parade in Hollywood] ] In January 2006, on the deathbed of her godmother, Shelley Winters, she performed a spiritual marriage as a last wish of Winters.

Filmography

*"Crack in the Mirror" (1960)
*"Hey, Let's Twist" (1961)
*"The 13 Most Beautiful Women" (1964)
*"Blue" (1968)
*"Coming Apart" (1969)
*"Futz!" (1969)
*"Brand X" (1970)
*"Jump" (1971)
*"Going Home" (1971)
*"The Young Nurses" (1973)
*"The Way We Were" (1973)
*"Cinderella Liberty" (1973)
*"The Sting" (1973)
*"Blazing Saddles" (1974)
*"Candy Stripe Nurses" (1974)
*"Big Bad Mama" (1974)
*"The Noah" (1975)
*"Bite the Bullet" (1975)
*"Crazy Mama" (1975)
*"Breakheart Pass" (1975)
*"Tracks" (1976)
*"Pipe Dreams" (1976)
*"A Star Is Born" (1976)
*"Flush" (1977)
*"Hometown USA" (1979)
*"The Illegal One" (1979)
*"Private Benjamin" (1980)
*"The Incredible Shrinking Woman" (1981)
*"" (1982)
*"Double Exposure" (1983)
*"Fatal Games" (1984)
*"Love Letters" (1984)
*"Talking Walls" (1987)
*"Anna" (1987)
*"Best of The Best" (1989)
*"Revenge" (1990)
*"In the Heat of Passion" (1991)
*"Forever (1992)
*"Gunmen" (1993)
*"EdTV (1994)

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title=Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
before=Marlee Matlin
for "Children of a Lesser God"
years=1988
for "Anna"
after=Jodie Foster, Sigourney Weaver, and Shirley MacLaine
tied for "The Accused, Gorillas in the Mist, "and" Madame Sousatzka"

References

External links

* [http://www.sallykirkland.com/ Sally Kirkland Official Homepage]
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