{"id":135611,"date":"2025-11-12T10:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135611\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T10:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:56:08","slug":"oscar-nominated-actor-dies-aged-84-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135611\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar-nominated actor dies aged 84 \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sally Kirkland, the Oscar<\/a>-nominated actor and one-time member of Andy Warhol\u2019s<\/a> The Factory, has died at 84.<\/p>\n

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 \u201clife-threatening infections\u201d and a number of falls. She had also been diagnosed with dementia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kirkland had started her career as a model before studying acting with classmates including Dustin Hoffman, Robert de Niro<\/a> and Al Pacino<\/a>. After acting off-Broadway in the early 1960s, she also became part of Andy Warhol\u2019s The Factory and the artist put her in 1964 drama The 13 Most Beautiful Women where she appeared nude and tied to a chair.<\/p>\n

Kirkland went on to star in the western Blue with Terence Stamp and underground sexually explicit thriller Coming Apart in the 1960s while also appearing on stage in Terrence McNally\u2019s Sweet Eros as a kidnapped woman where she spent the entirety of the production without any clothes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019m more European in personality,\u201d Kirkland once said in an interview. \u201cMy attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression. I suppose if I wanted to be the girl next door, I could have been. I think America is confused by someone who appears to be sexual and spiritual at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 1970s saw her take on small roles in The Way We Were, A Star is Born and The Sting on the big screen while she also appeared on the small screen in Starsky & Hutch, Charlie\u2019s Angels and Kojak.<\/p>\n

After the 1980s saw her feature alongside Goldie Hawn in Private Benjamin, she received an Oscar nomination for her fact-based comedy drama Anna after a grassroots campaign. She also won a Golden Globe for the role. \u201cAt the Oscars, there were all these movie stars emerging from their limos, and then there was me,\u201d she said. \u201cI felt like Cinderella.\u201d<\/p>\n

She played a stripper in 1989\u2019s High Stakes and had cosmetic surgery for the film which she later regretted as she \u201calmost died from them\u201d. She later removed them and founded the Kirkland Institute for Implant Survival Syndrome.<\/p>\n

\"MichaelMichael Douglas and Sally Kirkland appear with their awards for best actor for Wall Street and best actress for Anna at the 45th Annual Golden Globe Awards. Photograph: Reed Saxon\/AP <\/p>\n

The 1990s saw her play herself in Robert Altman\u2019s The Player and she also appear in JFK, Excess Baggage and EdTV while later credits included Bruce Almighty, Factory Girl and 80 for Brady. Television roles also included Felicity, Roseanne and Murder, She Wrote.<\/p>\n

Kirkland also worked as a teacher of acting, with students including Sandra Bullock, Barbra Streisand and Liza Minnelli.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy life is not about acting,\u201d Kirkland once said. \u201cIt\u2019s about expressing my vision of life. No matter what, everyone deserves a fair shot.\u201d – Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sally Kirkland, the Oscar-nominated actor and one-time member of Andy Warhol\u2019s The Factory, has died at 84. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,78154],"class_list":["post-135611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sally-kirkland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}