"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."
"I think I'm more European in personality, she once said in an interview. My 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."
"At the Oscars, there were all these movie stars emerging from their limos, and then there was me, she said. I felt like Cinderella."
Sally Kirkland began her career as a model before studying acting alongside Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. She acted off-Broadway in the early 1960s and became part of Andy Warhol's The Factory, appearing in The 13 Most Beautiful Women (1964). She starred in 1960s films including Blue and Coming Apart and performed unclothed on stage in Terrence McNally's Sweet Eros. Her later screen work included The Way We Were, A Star Is Born, The Sting, Private Benjamin, Bruce Almighty and an Oscar-nominated, Golden Globe-winning lead in Anna. She entered hospice after a period of ill health that included life-threatening infections, multiple falls and a dementia diagnosis, and a GoFundMe had been created to assist her.
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