Sally Kirkland
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| Sally Kirkland, Jr. | |
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| Born | October 31, 1944 New York City |
Sally Kirkland Jr. (born October 31, 1944) is an American actress. Born in New York City, she is the goddaughter of the late actress Shelley Winters. She was named for fashion editor Sally Kirkland, her mother, who was a fashion editor at Vogue and LIFE magazines.[1]
Kirkland was a student of Lee Strasberg and a member of the Andy Warhol coterie. She 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.
After several small roles in such films as The Sting, The Way We Were, A Star Is Born JFK and Private Benjamin, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1987 for Anna and won the Golden Globe that year for Best Actress.
Kirkland has had a highly successful and varied career, having appeared in nearly 150 films. She has also had frequent television roles, including Valley of the Dolls and the soap opera Days of Our Lives. She played Ed's mother in Edtv and acted in the romantic comedy The Last Guy on Earth, (2006) and with Nick Nolte in "Off The Black," and several other films, including Adam and Steve (2006) and Coffee Date (2007).
She 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. [2] In January 2006, on the deathbed of her Godmother, Shelley Winters, she performed a spiritual marriage as a last wish of Winters.
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| 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 |
