{"id":277563,"date":"2025-11-11T11:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T11:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/277563\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T11:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T11:55:12","slug":"hollywood-legend-sally-kirkland-enters-hospice-amid-dementia-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/277563\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Legend Sally Kirkland Enters Hospice Amid Dementia Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sally Kirkland, 84, has entered hospice after being diagnosed with dementia in 2024. <\/p>\n

The actress entered hospice care at a hospital in Palm Springs, California, where her friend and previous student Coty Galloway is by her side, Michael Greene, Kirkland\u2019s representative, told TMZ<\/a>. Greene also revealed that the actress had been diagnosed with dementia last year. <\/p>\n

Greene did not immediately respond to the Beast\u2019s request for comment. <\/p>\n

\"sally\"Sally Kirkland attends the closing night gala of the 22nd Arpa International Film Festival at the American Legion Post 43 on November 10, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. John Wolfsohn\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

A GoFundMe<\/a> page that Galloway and Kirkland\u2019s other friends created explained that the actress had also been experiencing \u201clife-threatening infections\u201d and had been injured during a \u201cfall in the shower, when she was left unattended.\u201d A Nov. 7 update to the page confirmed that Sally had entered hospice and \u201cis resting comfortably.\u201d <\/p>\n

Before her medical challenges, Kirkland was best known for playing the titular role in the 1987 film Anna, for which she won a Golden Globe and received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, losing out to Cher for Moonstruck. <\/p>\n

Kirkland has been acting since the 1960s\u2014appearing in movies like JFK, The Sting, Bruce Almighty and Private Benjamin\u2014but has continued to land roles in projects releasing this year. Her IMDb<\/a> shows that the actress has five upcoming projects she\u2019s set to appear in, as well. <\/p>\n

\"'Sallywood'A movie poster for ‘Sallywood’, releasing on digital platforms Nov. 14. Buffalo 8 <\/p>\n

One of those projects is Sallywood, a film slated for release on digital platforms on Friday.<\/p>\n

The film follows Zack (played by Tyler Steelman), who, inspired by Kirkland\u2019s performance in Anna, decides to travel cross-country to pursue a Hollywood career. In the process, he meets his idol, Kirkland, playing herself, and gets hired as her assistant\u2014dedicating himself to getting her back on her feet and in her rightful place on the red carpet.<\/p>\n

The film, directed by Xaque Gruber and produced by Steven J. Wolfe, features Kirkland and Steelman as the leads, along with Keith Carradine, Jennifer Tilly and Tom Connolly in supporting roles. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sally Kirkland, 84, has entered hospice after being diagnosed with dementia in 2024. The actress entered hospice care…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,4082],"class_list":["post-277563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}