Sally Kirkland, Best Actress Oscar Nominee, Golden Globe winner, Independent Spirit Award winner, LA Film Critics Circle Award winner, and veteran of over 200 movies. Feisty, hard-working, famously liberal, with the trademark blonde hair, actress Sally Kirkland has certainly made an indelible mark on Hollywood history. Born in New York City, her mother was the fashion editor at Vogue and LIFE magazine. Sally began her career on the off-Broadway circuit and trained under
Lee Strasberg. Sally Kirkland is a movie, television, and theater veteran since the 1960s and is probably best known for the drama movie
Anna (1987), for which she garnered the Best Actress Oscar nomination and won the Best Actress Golden Globe, the Independent Spirit Award, and the LA Film Critic's Circle Award.
Sally's first director was
Andy Warhol in
The 13 Most Beautiful Women (1964). Her 220 movies also include
Coming Apart (1969),
The Sting (1973),
The Way We Were (1973),
Cold Feet (1989),
Best of the Best (1989),
Revenge (1990),
JFK (1991),
Edtv (1999),
Bruce Almighty (2003),
Coffee Date (2006) and
Archaeology of a Woman (2012). In the past couple of years, she has starred in
Buddy Solitaire (2016),
Apartment 212 (2017), and
The Most Hated Woman in America (2017) co-starring with
Melissa Leo and
Peter Fonda. And coming out soon, she has starred in
Sarah Q (2018),
Cuck (2019),
Invincible (2020) and
Hope for the Holidays (2020). She was nominated for Best Actress in a television movie by the Hollywood Foreign Press for
The Haunted (1991). Her television credits include: guest starring on
Criminal Minds (2005), and recurring roles on
Head Case (2007) and
The Simple Life (2003). She guest starred on
Resurrection Blvd. (2000) and in the television movie
Another Woman's Husband (2000).
Sally had a recurring role on
Felicity (1998) and starred in the NBC movie
Brave New World (1998). She also starred in the television episode
Song of Songs (1994), and was a series regular on the television series
Valley of the Dolls (1994). She also co-starred in the television movie
The Woman Who Loved Elvis (1993). She had a recurring role as Barbara Healy in the original
Roseanne (1988) series. She starred in the television movie
Heat Wave (1990), and recurred as Tracy on
Days of Our Lives (1965). Sally is also an exhibited painter, poet, renowned acting coach and ordained minister.