Early life

Kirkland was born in New York City, New York. She was named after her mother, Sally Kirkland (born Sarah Phinney), who was a fashion editor at Vogue and LIFE magazines, and was raised in Oklahoma. Her father, Frederic McMichael Kirkland, worked in the scrap metal business.

Career

Kirkland began acting Off-Broadway in 1962. Then in 1969, she gave a performance in the underground film Coming Apart. In the 1970s, she had small roles in popular films such as The Sting, The Way We Were, A Star Is Born and Private Benjamin. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1987 for Anna, and she won a Golden Globe and an Independent Spirit Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture. Kirkland currently (as of 2010) hosts a show on the syndicated HealthyLife Radio Network.

Kirkland has had frequent television roles, including The Simple Life 5: Goes to Camp, Three's Company, The Incredible Hulk, Murder, She Wrote, High Tide, and the soap operas Valley of the Dolls and Days of Our Lives. Films in which she has appeared include EDtv, JFK, Adam and Steve and Coffee Date.

Sally was featured in a spread by Contrast Magazine in their premiere issue alongside Perez Hilton.

Affiliations

Kirkland is also a health activist including advocating for women harmed by breast implants. She founded the Kirkland Institute for Implant Survival Syndrome in August 1998.

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

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1960	Crack in the Mirror	Bit part (uncredited)
1961	Hey, Let's Twist	Dancer
1964	The 13 Most Beautiful Women	Beautiful Woman
1968	Witness	Miss Presson
	Blue	Sarah Lambert
1969	Coming Apart	Joann
	Futz	Merry Lee
1970	Brand X	Patient/President's Wife
1971	Jump	Lou
	Going Home	Ann
1973	The Young Nurses	Woman at Clinic
	The Way We Were	Pony Dunbar
	Cinderella Liberty	Fleet Chick
	The Sting	Crystal
1974	Blazing Saddles	Cashier	(uncredited)
	Candy Stripe Nurses	Wife in Clinic
	Big Bad Mama	Barney's Woman
1975	The Noah	Friday-Anne (voice)
	Bite the Bullet	Honey
	Crazy Mama	Ella Mae
	Breakheart Pass	Jane-Marie
1976	Tracks	Train Passenger
	Pipe Dreams	Two Street Betty
	A Star Is Born	Photographer
1977	Flush	Janet
1979	Hometown USA	Gwen
	The Illegal One	Don Tony's Girlfriend
1980	Private Benjamin	Helga
1981	The Incredible Shrinking Woman	Store Cashier
1982	Neil Young: Human Highway	Katherine
1983	Double Exposure	Hooker
1984	Fatal Games	Diane Paine
	Love Letters	Sally
1987	Talking Walls	Hooker
	Anna	Anna	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress
1988	White Hot	Harriet
1989	Best of the Best	Wade
	Cold Feet	Maureen
	High Stakes	Melanie Rose
	Paint It Black	Marion Easton
1990	Revenge	Rock Star
	Bullseye!	Willie
1991	In the Heat of Passion	Lee Adams
	JFK	Rose Cheramie
	The Haunted	Janet Smurl
1992	Primary Motive	Helen Poulas
	Stringer	Joan
	Hit the Dutchman	Emma Flegenheimer
	Forever	Angelica
	Roseanne	Barbara Healy	TV, appeared in 2 episodes; second was in 1993
	Double Jeopardy	Detective Phyllis Camden
1993	Eye of the Stranger	Lori
	Double Threat	Monica Martel
	The Black Cat	Eleonora
	Paper Hearts	Jenny
1994	Gunmen	Bennett
1995	Picture Windows	Blossom	TV
	Guns and Lipstick	Danielle Roberts
1996	Amnesia	Charlene Hunt
1997	Little Ghost	Mother Ghost
	Get a Clue	Sydelle Pulaski	TV
	Excess Baggage	Louise
1998	Wilbur Falls	Roberta Devereaux
	Paranoia	Dr. Kurtzwell
	The Island	Marilyn Monroe
	Brave New World	Linda	TV Movie
1999	EDtv	Jeanette
	Twinkle Toes
	Starry Night	Detective Brook Murphy
2000	The Boys Behind the Desk
2001	A Month of Sundays	Katherine St. Croix
	Out of the Black	Elizabeth Malby
	Audit	Raissa
	Thank You, Good Night	Doreen
2002	Wish You Were Dead	Penelope Wilson
	The Rose Technique	Helen
	Mothers and Daughters	Nana
2003	Bruce Almighty	Anita
2004	Bloodlines	Joyce
	An Eye for an Eye	Rachel
	Mango Kiss	Emilia
2005	Chandler Hall	Sally
	What's Up, Scarlet?	Ruth Zabrinski
	Encore	Iris
	Adam & Steve	Mary
	Neo Ned	Shelly
2006	Factory Girl	Grandma Sedgwick	(uncredited)
	Coffee Date	Mrs. Muller
	Off the Black	Marianne Reynolds
	A-List	Olga
	Hollywood Dreams	Minister at Wedding
2007	Spiritual Warriors	Realtor
	Big Stan	Madame Foreman
	Resurrection Mary	Lois
	Blind Spot	Penelope Denmore
2008	Fingerprints	Mary
	Oak Hill	Elizabeth St. James
	Richard III	Queen Margaret
	The Ear of the Beholder	Marlena
	Bald	Elise
2009	Redemption	Mrs. Allport
	Fast Track	Mediator
	Under the Knife	Pat Mazur
2010	One by One: Death's Door	Harold's Nana
	Flexing with Monty	Lilith
	Alice Stands Up	Alice
2012	Archaeology of a Woman	Margaret
2013	Tom in America	Betty
	Awakened	Harriet
2014	Suburban Gothic	Virginia

[ Source: Wikipedia ]