![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: October 31, 1944 in New York City, NY Biography:A former member of "Andy Warhol"'s Factory and an active member in 1960s New York avant-garde theater, actress "Sally Kirkland" is best remembered in film for playing a famous Czech actress who is forced to lead a degrading life of anonymity in New York in "Anna" (1987). The daughter of a fashion editor of Life magazine and a wealthy scrap iron vendor, the tall, slender "Kirkland" started out as a Vogue model and then studied at the Actor's Studio with "Lee Strassberg" and "Uta Hagen". She launched her acting career off-Broadway, but didn't make much impact until she appeared nude and tied to a chair for 45 minutes in the drama Sweet Eros. By 1964, "Kirkland" was deeply involved in the Big Apple's avant-garde movement and was also an active drug user until an attempted suicide frightened her into cleaning up her life through yoga and painting. As an actress, she next involved herself with Warhol's... Full Biography
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