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Sally Kirkland, a one-time mannequin who grew to become an everyday on stage, movie and TV, finest recognized for sharing the screen with Paul Newman and Robert Redford in “The Sting” and her Oscar-nominated title position in the 1987 film “Anna,” has died. She was 84.
Her consultant, Michael Greene, mentioned Kirkland died Tuesday morning at a Palm Springs hospice.
Friends established a GoFundMe account this fall for her medical care. They mentioned she had fractured 4 bones in her neck, proper wrist and left hip. While recovering, she additionally developed infections, requiring hospitalization and rehab.
Kirkland acted in such movies as “The Way We Were” with Barbra Streisand, “Revenge” with Kevin Costner, “Cold Feet” with Keith Carradine and Tom Waits, Ron Howard’s “EDtv,” Oliver Stone’s “JFK,” “Heatwave” with Cicely Tyson, “High Stakes” with Kathy Bates, “Bruce Almighty” with Jim Carrey and the 1991 TV film “The Haunted,” a couple of household coping with paranormal exercise. She had a cameo in Mel Brooks’ “Blazing Saddles.”
Her greatest position was in 1987’s “Anna” as a fading Czech film star remaking her life in the United States and mentoring to a youthful actor, Paulina Porizkova. Kirkland gained a Golden Globe and earned an Oscar nomination together with Cher in “Moonstruck,” Glenn Close in “Fatal Attraction, Holly Hunter in ”Broadcast News” and Meryl Streep in “Ironweed.”
Kirkland’s small-screen performing credit embrace stints on “Criminal Minds,” “Roseanne,” “Head Case” and she was a collection common on the TV exhibits “Valley of the Dolls” and “Charlie’s Angels.”
Born in New York City, Kirkland’s mom was a style editor at Vogue and Life journal who inspired her daughter to start out modeling at age 5. Kirkland graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and studied with Philip Burton, Richard Burton’s mentor, and Lee Strasberg, the grasp of the Method faculty of performing. An early breakout was showing in Andy Warhol’s “13 Most Beautiful Women” in 1964. She appeared bare as a kidnapped rape sufferer in Terrence McNally’s off-Broadway “Sweet Eros.”
Some of her early roles have been Shakespeare, together with the lovesick Helena in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” for New York Shakespeare Festival producer Joseph Papp and Miranda in an off-Broadway manufacturing of “The Tempest.”
“I don’t think any actor can really call him or herself an actor unless he or she puts in time with Shakespeare,” she informed the Los Angeles Times in 1991. “It shows up, it always shows up in the work, at some point, whether it’s just not being able to have breath control, or not being able to appreciate language as poetry and music, or not having the power that Shakespeare automatically instills you with when you take on one of his characters.”
Kirkland was a member of a number of New Age teams, taught Insight Transformational Seminars and was a longtime member of the affiliated Church of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, whose followers consider in soul transcendence.
She reached a profession nadir whereas driving nude on a pig in the 1969 movie “Futz,” which a Guardian reviewer dubbed the worst movie he had ever seen. “It was about a man who fell in love with a pig, and even by the dismal standards of the era, it was dismal,” he wrote.
Kirkland was additionally recognized for disrobing for thus many different roles and social causes that Time journal dubbed her “the latter-day Isadora Duncan of nudothespianism.”
Kirkland volunteered for individuals with AIDS, most cancers and coronary heart illness, fed homeless individuals through the American Red Cross, participated in telethons for hospices and was an advocate for prisoners, particularly younger individuals.