The actor has over 250 screen credits, including Anna, The Way We Were and JFK, and collaborated with Andy Warhol
Sally Kirkland, the Oscar-nominated actor and one-time member of Andy Warhol’s the Factory, has died at 84.
The star of films including Anna, JFK and Bruce Almighty had entered hospice care two days before her death after a period of ill health. Last year, a GoFundMe page had been set up to help her in the wake of “life-threatening infections” and a number of falls. She had also been diagnosed with dementia.
Kirkland had started her career as a model before studying acting with classmates including Dustin Hoffman, Robert de Niro and Al Pacino. After acting off-Broadway in the early 1960s, she also became part of Andy Warhol’s The Factory and the artist put her in 1964 drama The 13 Most Beautiful Women where she appeared nude and tied to a chair.
She went on to star in the western Blue with Terence Stamp and underground sexually explicit thriller Coming Apart in the 60s while also appearing on stage in Terrence McNally’s Sweet Eros as a kidnapped woman where she spent the entirety of the production without any clothes.
