Sally Kirkland
172 movies · 26 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 31, 1941
- Died
- Nov 11, 2025 (age 84)
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- سالی کرکلند
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).
Profiles IMDb
Known for
Sally Kirkland: movies and TV shows
Acting (198)
- 2024 Aftermath
as Dr. Jane
- 2024 Skeletons in the Closet
as Madam Futura
- 2023 Woods Witch
as Charlotte
- 2023 Holiday Boyfriend
as Alice
- 2023 Lost Explorer
as Annette
- 2023 When It Rings
as Lesley Judd
- 2023 Altered Perceptions
as Theresa Morgan
- 2023 Here We Are
as Sherri
- 2023 Bobcat Moretti
as Helene Moretti
- 2023 The Haunting of Hell Hole Mine
as Doctor Parker
- 2023 The New Hands
as May
- 2023 80 for Brady
as Ida
- 2022 Murder, Anyone?
as Nancy
- 2022 The Walk
as Mrs. Kelley
- 2021 The Magic
as Rose Buchanan
- 2021 The Final Code
as Doctor Holly
- 2021 The Woman in the Room
as Mother
- 2021 Magic Max
as Elaine Hart
- 2020 Hope For The Holidays
as Georgia Petros
- 2020 A Medicine for the Mind
as Sandra
- 2020 Invincible
as Dr. Quade
- 2019 Acceleration
as Betty
- 2019 Cuck
as Mother
- 2018 Sarah Q
as Helena
- 2018 Making a Killing
as Dolores
- 2018 Paint It Red
as Adele
- 2018 Los Angeles Overnight
as Mrs. Chantilly
- 2018 The Second Coming of Christ
as Stella
- 2018 Get Married or Die
as Margaret
- 2017 Gnaw
as Claudette Grim
- 2017 Price for Freedom
as Francine Wayne
- 2017 The Most Hated Woman in America
as Lena Christina
- 2017 Extinction
as Rose
- 2016 Nerdland
as Older Woman (voice)
- 2016 Trash Fire
as Florence
- 2016 Buddy Solitaire
as Hanna
- 2015 Lights Out
as Rose
- 2015 The Code of Cain
as Elisabeth
- 2015 Buddy Hutchins
as Bertha
- 2014 All I Want for Christmas
as Gwen
- 2014 Slut
as Grandma
- 2014 Archaeology of a Woman
as Margaret
- 2014 Suburban Gothic
as Virginia
- 2014 Tom in America
as Betty
- 2014
- 2013 Jack the Reaper
as Harold's Nana
- 2013 Awakened
as Harriet Bendi
- 2013 Curse of the Sunset Starlet
as Gigi
- 2013
- 2012 Broken Roads
as Mrs. Wallace
- 2012 Stars in Shorts
as Madame Ulaila
- 2011 The Wishmakers
as Mary
- 2011 The Wayshower
as Jeena
- 2011 A Bag of Hammers
as Older Jewish Lady
- 2010 Not Your Time
as Madame Ulaila
- 2010 House Under Siege
as Pat Mazur
- 2010 Flexing with Monty
as Lillith
- 2010 Urgency
as Mediator
- 2008 Spiritual Warriors
as Realtor
- 2008 Mollie & Friends
as Elizabeth St. James
- 2007 Big Stan
as Madame Foreman
- 2007 Resurrection Mary
as Lois
- 2007 Richard III
as Queen Margaret
- 2007
- 2007
- 2006 Factory Girl
as Grandma Sedgwick (uncredited)
- 2006 Off the Black
as Marianne Reynolds
- 2006 Coffee Date
as Mrs. Muller
- 2006 Fingerprints
as Mary
- 2006
- 2006 Courts mais Gay : Tome 11
as Rachel
- 2005 Chandler Hall
as Sally
- 2005
- 2005 What's Up, Scarlet?
as Ruth Zabrinski
- 2005 Adam & Steve
as Mary
- 2005 Neo Ned
as Shelly Nelson
- 2004 Bloodlines
as Joyce
- 2004 An Eye for an Eye
as Rachel
- 2004 Mango Kiss
as Emilia
- 2003 Bruce Almighty
as Anita
- 2002
- 2002 Wish You Were Dead
as Penelope Wilson
- 2002 Night of the Wolf
as Rose Handy
- 2002 The Rose Technique
as Helen
- 2001 Circuit
as Club Cashier
- 2001 A Month of Sundays
as Katherine St. Croix
- 2001 Out of the Black
as Elizabeth Malby
- 2001 Audit
as Raissa
- 2001 Thank You, Good Night
as Doreen
- 2000
- 2000 Another Woman's Husband
as Roxie
- 2000
- 1999 EDtv
as Jeanette
- 1999 Starry Night
as Detective Brook Murphy
- 1998
- 1998 Wilbur Falls
as Roberta Devereaux
- 1998 Paranoia
as Dr. Kurtzwell
- 1998 Brave New World
as Linda
- 1998 Norma Jean, Jack, and Me
as Marilyn Monroe
- 1997 Little Ghost
as Mother Ghost
- 1997 The Westing Game
as Sydelle Pulaski
- 1997 Excess Baggage
as Louise
- 1997
- 1997 Amnesia
as Charlene Hunt
- 1996
- 1995
- 1995 Guns & Lipstick
as Danielle Roberts
- 1994 Picture Windows: Song of Songs
as Blossom
- 1994
- 1993
- 1993 Cheatin' Hearts
as Jenny
- 1993 Double Deception
as Anita Cortez
- 1993 Gunmen
as Bennett
- 1993 Eye of the Stranger
as Lori
- 1993 The Woman Who Loved Elvis
as Sandee Sloop
- 1993 Stranger Than Love
as Laura Frossky
- 1992 Double Threat
as Monica Martel
- 1992 Double Jeopardy
as Detective Phyllis Camden
- 1992 Primary Motive
as Helen Poulas
- 1992 Hit the Dutchman
as Emma Flegenheimer
- 1992
- 1992 The Player
as Sally Kirkland
- 1992 In the Heat of Passion
as Lee Adams
- 1992 The Bulkin Trail
as Selma Bulkin
- 1992 Forever
as Angelica
- 1992 Stringer
as Joan Pezanasky
- 1991 JFK
as Rose Cheramie
- 1991 The Haunted
as Janet Smurl
- 1991 Grave Images
as Caitlin
- 1990 Bullseye!
as Willie
- 1990 Heat Wave
as Mrs. Canfield
- 1990 Largo Desolato
as Suzana
- 1990 Paint It Black
as Marion Easton
- 1990 Revenge
as Rock Star
- 1990 Two Evil Eyes
as Eleonora
- 1989 Best of the Best
as Catherine Wade
- 1989 High Stakes
as Melanie Rose
- 1989 Cold Feet
as Maureen
- 1989 White Hot
as Harriet
- 1988
- 1987 Anna
as Anna
- 1987 Talking Walls
as Hooker
- 1984
- 1984 Fatal Games
as Diane Paine
- 1983 A Rose for Emily
as Gossip
- 1983 Love Letters
as Hippie
- 1982 Human Highway
as Kathryn
- 1982 Double Exposure
as Hooker
- 1981
- 1981 The Incredible Shrinking Woman
as Cashier
- 1980 The Georgia Peaches
as Vivian Stark
- 1980 Private Benjamin
as Helga
- 1979 The Illegal
as Don Tony's Girlfriend
- 1979
- 1979 Hometown U.S.A.
as Gwen
- 1977 Flush
as Janet
- 1977
- 1977
- 1977
- 1977 Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?
as Della Bianco
- 1976 A Star Is Born
as Photographer
- 1976 Tracks
as Train Passenger
- 1976 Pipe Dreams
as Two-Street Betty
- 1976
- 1976
- 1976 Griffin and Phoenix
as Jody
- 1975 Breakheart Pass
as Jane-Marie
- 1975 Bite the Bullet
as Honey
- 1975 Death Scream
as Mary
- 1975 The Kansas City Massacre
as Wilma Floyd
- 1975
- 1975 Crazy Mama
as Ella Mae
- 1975
- 1975 The Noah
as Friday-Anne
- 1975
- 1974 Big Bad Mama
as Barney's Woman
- 1974
- 1974 Candy Stripe Nurses
as Wife in Clinic
- 1974 Blazing Saddles
as Cashier (uncredited)
- 1973 The Sting
as Crystal
- 1973 Cinderella Liberty
as Fleet Chick
- 1973
- 1973 The Way We Were
as Pony Dunbar
- 1973 Blume in Love
as Party Guest (uncredited)
- 1973 The Young Nurses
as Woman at clinic
- 1972
- 1971 Going Home
as Ann Graham
- 1971 Jump
as Lou (uncredited)
- 1970 Brand X
as Patient / President's Wife
- 1969 Futz
as Merry Lee
- 1969 Coming Apart
as Joann
- 1969
- 1968 Blue
as Sarah Lambert
- 1966 Satisfaction
as The Nun
- 1965
- 1964
- 1961 Hey, Let's Twist!
as Peppermint Club Dancer (uncredited)
- 1960 Crack in the Mirror
as Bit Part (uncredited)
Behind the camera (8)
- 2013 The Visitor from Planet Omicron
Associate Producer
- 2010 House Under Siege
Producer
- 2008 Mollie & Friends
Producer
- 2004 An Eye for an Eye
Producer
- 2000 The Boys Behind the Desk
Director
- 1997 Amnesia
Associate Producer
- 1993 Cheatin' Hearts
Executive Producer
- 1993 Stranger Than Love
Executive Producer
Talk shows and appearances (12)
- 2025
- 2024
- 2018
- 2014
- 1998
- 1992
- 1990
- 1988
- 1977
- 1973
- 1965
- 1964