American actress Sally Kirklandnominated for an Oscar award for her leading role in the comedy-drama Anna (Yurek Bogayevicz, 1987), died early this morning on November 11 at the age of 84 in California due to the illnesses that afflicted her in recent times, reported her representative Michael Greene.
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Kirkland, born in New York in 1941, began her career as an actress in venues known as theaters. Off-Broadway in 1963. A year later, he was already part of ‘The Factory’ of Andy Warhol; It was then that she appeared completely naked and tied to a chair for 45 minutes in the Warholian drama The 13 most beautiful women.
Perhaps as a cause or consequence, in that same 1964 she was a devotee of the avant-garde movement before being pushed to the edge by her drug use that saw her on the verge of death.
Sally Kirkland, a tireless star
Between 1970 and 1980, the daughter of the editor of Life y Variety of the same name, appeared in films such as Going Home, Cinderella Liberty, The Sting, The Way We Are, Big Bad Mama, Bullet Cock, Crazy Mama, A Star is Born, Hometown U.S.A., Human Highway, Love Letters, Anna, Paint It Black y High Stakes.
Despite not winning the Best Actress category at the Oscars, she was awarded the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Dramatic Film and a Independent Spirit Award for Best Leading Actress for Yurek Bogayevicz’s film.
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By 1990, after triumphing in In the Heat of Passion y Double Threatfound a new space to shine on television. That decade he participated in productions such as Valley of the Dolls, Steel Magnolias, The Haunted, Roseanne, The Nanny y Days of Our Lives.
Throughout her career she was recognized at the California Independent Film Festival, the La Femme International Film Festival, the Studio City Film Festival, the Madrid International LGBT Film Festival and the Long Island International Film Festival.