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).

Filmography

• 2024Aftermath — Dr. Jane
• 2024Skeletons in the Closet — Madam Futura
• 202380 for Brady — Ida
• 2023Altered Perceptions — Theresa Morgan
• 2023Bobcat Moretti — Helene Moretti
• 2023Here We Are — Sherri
• 2023Holiday Boyfriend — Alice
• 2023Lost Explorer — Annette
• 2023The Haunting of Hell Hole Mine — Doctor Parker
• 2023The New Hands — May
• 2023When It Rings — Lesley Judd
• 2023Woods Witch — Charlotte
• 2022Murder, Anyone? — Nancy
• 2022The Walk — Mrs. Kelley
• 2021Magic Max — Elaine Hart
• 2021The Final Code — Doctor Holly
• 2021The Magic — Rose Buchanan
• 2021The Woman in the Room — Mother
• 2020A Medicine for the Mind — Sandra
• 2020Hope For The Holidays — Georgia Petros
• 2020Invincible — Dr. Quade
• 2019Acceleration — Betty
• 2019Cuck — Mother
• 2018Get Married or Die — Margaret
• 2018Los Angeles Overnight — Mrs. Chantilly
• 2018Making a Killing — Dolores
• 2018Paint It Red — Adele
• 2018Sarah Q — Helena
• 2018The Second Coming of Christ — Stella
• 2017Extinction — Rose
• 2017Gnaw — Claudette Grim
• 2017Price for Freedom — Francine Wayne
• 2017The Most Hated Woman in America — Lena Christina
• 2016Buddy Solitaire — Hanna
• 2016Nerdland — Older Woman (voice)
• 2016Trash Fire — Florence
• 2015Buddy Hutchins — Bertha
• 2015Lights Out — Rose
• 2015The Code of Cain — Elisabeth
• 2014All I Want for Christmas — Gwen
• 2014Archaeology of a Woman — Margaret
• 2014Slut — Grandma
• 2014Suburban Gothic — Virginia
• 2014The Bride From Vegas
• 2014Tom in America — Betty
• 2013Awakened — Harriet Bendi
• 2013Curse of the Sunset Starlet — Gigi
• 2013Jack the Reaper — Harold's Nana
• 2013The Visitor from Planet Omicron — Jen, Associate Producer
• 2012Broken Roads — Mrs. Wallace
• 2012Stars in Shorts — Madame Ulaila
• 2011A Bag of Hammers — Older Jewish Lady
• 2011The Wayshower — Jeena
• 2011The Wishmakers — Mary
• 2010Flexing with Monty — Lillith
• 2010House Under Siege — Pat Mazur, Producer
• 2010Not Your Time — Madame Ulaila
• 2010Urgency — Mediator
• 2008Mollie & Friends — Elizabeth St. James, Producer
• 2008Spiritual Warriors — Realtor
• 2007Big Stan — Madame Foreman
• Head Case — Dr. Goode's Mother
• 2007Hollywood Dreams
• 2007Resurrection Mary — Lois
• 2007Richard III — Queen Margaret
• 2006A-list
• 2006Coffee Date — Mrs. Muller
• 2006Courts mais Gay : Tome 11 — Rachel
• 2006Factory Girl — Grandma Sedgwick (uncredited)
• 2006Fingerprints — Mary
• 2006Off the Black — Marianne Reynolds
• 2005Adam & Steve — Mary
• 2005Chandler Hall — Sally
• 2005Neo Ned — Shelly Nelson
• Wanted — Sheila Beckwith
• 2005What's Up, Scarlet? — Ruth Zabrinski
• 2004An Eye for an Eye — Rachel, Producer
• 2004Bloodlines — Joyce
• 2004Mango Kiss — Emilia
• 2003Bruce Almighty — Anita
• 2002Boxer Shorts
• 2002Night of the Wolf — Rose Handy
• 2002The Rose Technique — Helen
• 2002Wish You Were Dead — Penelope Wilson
• 2001A Month of Sundays — Katherine St. Croix
• 2001Audit — Raissa
• 2001Circuit — Club Cashier
• 2001Out of the Black — Elizabeth Malby
• 2001Thank You, Good Night — Doreen
• 2000Another Woman's Husband — Roxie
• Strong Medicine — Stella Riggs, Peter's Mother
• 2000The Boys Behind the Desk — Director
• 1999EDtv — Jeanette
• 1999Starry Night — Detective Brook Murphy
• 1998Brave New World — Linda
• Felicity — Professor Annie Sherman
• 1998Norma Jean, Jack, and Me — Marilyn Monroe
• 1998Paranoia — Dr. Kurtzwell
• 1998Wilbur Falls — Roberta Devereaux
• 1997Amnesia — Charlene Hunt, Associate Producer
• 1997Excess Baggage — Louise
• 1997Little Ghost — Mother Ghost
• The Hunger — Mrs. Garington
• 1997The Westing Game — Sydelle Pulaski
• Women: Stories of Passion — Annie
• 1995Guns & Lipstick — Danielle Roberts
• Picture Windows — Blossom
• 1994Picture Windows: Song of Songs — Blossom
• Valley of the Dolls — Helen Lawson
• 1993Cheatin' Hearts — Jenny, Executive Producer
• 1993Double Deception — Anita Cortez
• 1993Eye of the Stranger — Lori
• 1993Gunmen — Bennett
• 1993Stranger Than Love — Laura Frossky, Executive Producer
• The Nanny — Tattoo Lady
• 1993The Woman Who Loved Elvis — Sandee Sloop
• 1992Double Jeopardy — Detective Phyllis Camden
• 1992Double Threat — Monica Martel
• 1992Forever — Angelica
• 1992Hit the Dutchman — Emma Flegenheimer
• 1992In the Heat of Passion — Lee Adams
• Jack's Place
• 1992Primary Motive — Helen Poulas
• 1992Stringer — Joan Pezanasky
• 1992The Bulkin Trail — Selma Bulkin
• 1992The Player — Sally Kirkland
• 1991Grave Images — Caitlin
• 1991JFK — Rose Cheramie
• 1991The Haunted — Janet Smurl
• 1990Bullseye! — Willie
• 1990Heat Wave — Mrs. Canfield
• 1990Largo Desolato — Suzana
• 1990Paint It Black — Marion Easton
• 1990Revenge — Rock Star
• 1990Two Evil Eyes — Eleonora
• 1989Best of the Best — Catherine Wade
• 1989Cold Feet — Maureen
• 1989High Stakes — Melanie Rose
• 1989White Hot — Harriet
• Roseanne
• 1987Anna — Anna
• 1987Talking Walls — Hooker
• 1984Fatal Games — Diane Paine
• Murder, She Wrote — Evelyn Colby
• 1983A Rose for Emily — Gossip
• 1983Love Letters — Hippie
• 1982Double Exposure — Hooker
• 1982Human Highway — Kathryn
• Falcon Crest — Ella
• 1981The Incredible Shrinking Woman — Cashier
• 1980Private Benjamin — Helga
• 1980The Georgia Peaches — Vivian Stark
• 1979Hometown U.S.A. — Gwen
• Supertrain — Katherine Sully
• 1979The Illegal — Don Tony's Girlfriend
• 1977Flush — Janet
• Lou Grant
• 1977Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? — Della Bianco
• The Incredible Hulk — Margaret Hollinger
• Three's Company — Sally
• 1976A Star Is Born — Photographer
• Captains and the Kings — Aggie
• Charlie's Angels — Lonnie, Laurie Archer
• 1976Griffin and Phoenix — Jody
• 1976Pipe Dreams — Two-Street Betty
• 1976Tracks — Train Passenger
• Baretta
• 1975Bite the Bullet — Honey
• 1975Breakheart Pass — Jane-Marie
• Bronk
• 1975Crazy Mama — Ella Mae
• 1975Death Scream — Mary
• Starsky & Hutch — Greta Wren / Dora Pruitt
• 1975The Kansas City Massacre — Wilma Floyd
• 1975The Noah — Friday-Anne
• 1974Big Bad Mama — Barney's Woman
• 1974Blazing Saddles — Cashier (uncredited)
• 1974Candy Stripe Nurses — Wife in Clinic
• Petrocelli
• 1973Blume in Love — Party Guest (uncredited)
• 1973Cinderella Liberty — Fleet Chick
• Kojak — Gloria, Shirley, Clara
• 1973The Sting — Crystal
• 1973The Way We Were — Pony Dunbar
• 1973The Young Nurses — Woman at clinic
• The Rookies
• 1971Going Home — Ann Graham
• 1971Jump — Lou (uncredited)
• 1970Brand X — Patient / President's Wife
• 1969Coming Apart — Joann
• 1969Futz — Merry Lee
• Hawaii Five-O — Betty Rowan
• 1968Blue — Sarah Lambert
• 1966Satisfaction — The Nun
• 1965Dirt
• 196413 Most Beautiful Women
• 1961Hey, Let's Twist! — Peppermint Club Dancer (uncredited)
• 1960Crack in the Mirror — Bit Part (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (12)

• 2025SEGAL — Self
• 2024Sallywood — Self
• 2018Feminists: What Were They Thinking? — Self
• 2014Mystical Traveler: The Life and Times of Dr. John-Roger — Self
• 1998Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs — Self
• 1992Blast 'Em — Self
• 1990Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol — Self
• 1988Hello Actors Studio — Self
• 1977Making It In Hollywood — Self
• 1973Fade In — Herself
• 1965Andy Warhol Screen Tests — Self
• 1964SCREEN TEST [ST181]: SALLY KIRKLAND — self