Sally Kirkland

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Sally Kirkland

at the 79th Annual Academy Awards Children Uniting Nations/Billboard afterparty
Born October 31, 1941 (1941-10-31) (age 66)
New York City, New York, U.S.

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

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[edit] Biography

[edit] 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.[1] Her father, Frederic McMichael Kirkland, worked in the scrap metal business.[2] Kirkland was a student of Lee Strasberg and a member of the Andy Warhol coterie.

[edit] 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.

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 The Simple Life 5: Goes to Camp in 2007.

[edit] 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.[3] In January 2006, on the deathbed of her godmother, Shelley Winters, she performed a spiritual marriage as a last wish of Winters.

[edit] Filmography

Awards
Preceded by
Marlee Matlin
for Children of a Lesser God		 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
1988
for Anna		 Succeeded by
Jodie Foster, Sigourney Weaver, and Shirley MacLaine
tied for The Accused, Gorillas in the Mist, and Madame Sousatzka

[edit] References

  1. ^ Straight to the Heart of Hollywood Moxie: A Candid Interview with Sally Kirkland Moxie Magazine. 2000.
  2. ^ Sally Kirkland Biography (1941-)
  3. ^ Gandhi Grandson to Lead Peace Parade in Hollywood

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