18 Facts About Sally Kirkland

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Sally Kirkland was born on October 31,1941 and is an American film, television and stage actress and producer.

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Sally Kirkland earned a second Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for The Haunted.

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Sally Kirkland is known for her roles in Cold Feet, Best of the Best, JFK and Bruce Almighty.

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Sally Kirkland started out as a Vogue model and then studied at the Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg and Uta Hagen.

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Sally Kirkland joined Andy Warhol's The Factory and appeared nude and tied to a chair for 45 minutes in the 1964 drama film The 13 Most Beautiful Women.

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Sally Kirkland spent the 1970s and most of the 1980s playing secondary roles in film include Going Home, The Young Nurses, The Way We Were, The Sting, Big Bad Mama, Crazy Mama, A Star Is Born and Private Benjamin.

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Sally Kirkland played a leading role in the 1984 horror film Fatal Games.

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In 1987, Sally Kirkland received positive reviews from critics and Academy Award for Best Actress nomination for playing title role in the independent drama film Anna.

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Sally Kirkland's performance received widespread critical praise, in a performance that the Washington Post deemed "superb" and the Los Angeles Times rated her as one of the best actresses of the decade.

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Sally Kirkland later acted in second-grade films include Cold Feet, Paint It Black and Two Evil Eyes.

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Sally Kirkland starred in the erotic thrillers In the Heat of Passion and Double Threat in 1992, which found success in home video releases.

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Sally Kirkland found better success on television, playing leading roles in a number of made-for-television movies, and starring in the syndicated soap opera Valley of the Dolls in 1994.

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Sally Kirkland guest-starred in Roseanne, Murder, Sally Kirkland Wrote and The Nanny.

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Sally Kirkland hosted a weekly program on the syndicated HealthyLife Radio Network.

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Sally Kirkland is a health activist including advocating for women harmed by breast implants.

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Sally Kirkland founded the Kirkland Institute for Implant Survival Syndrome in August 1998.

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Sally Kirkland is an ordained minister in the church of Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness.

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Sally Kirkland is a gallery-shown painter and a noted acting teacher whose students have included Sandra Bullock, Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, Dwight Yoakam, and Roseanne Barr, among others.