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November 13, 2025

The prolific actor, best known for 'Anna,' notched about 270 credits in her career.

- By CHRISTIE D’ZURILLA AND DAWN BURKES

Oscar-nominated stage and screen star

ROB GAUTHIER Los Angeles Times

A LONG RESUME Among Sally Kirkland's many other credits were the 1991 film "JFK" and TV's "Roseanne."

Sally Kirkland, a prolific Golden Globe-winning performer on stage and screen who was also nominated for an Academy Award, has died. She was 84.

The actor died early Tuesday morning in Palm Springs, her manager confirmed to the Associated Press, after being placed in hospice care last week with a diagnosis of dementia.

Kirkland's honors came from the 1987 film "Anna," in which she co-starred with Paulina Porizkova. The movie, which also won her an Independent Spirit Award for lead actress, was one of hundreds of Kirkland's credits that included 1991's "JFK," 2003's "Bruce Almighty," "80 for Brady" in 2023 and the television series "Charlie's Angels." Born Oct. 3, 1941, in New York City, Kirkland was encouraged by her mother to start modeling when she was 5. She graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and studied with Philip Burton, Richard Burton's mentor. Kirkland got into Lee Strasberg's Method acting class at the Actors Studio by the time she was 18 and started her career working in off-Broadway theater. She would study with Strasberg for 20 years and later taught Shakespeare for him.

Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman and AI Pacino were among her fellow students.

At one point, Strasberg had her work a scene from "Richard III" for months, playing Lady Anne opposite classmate Rip Torn as the title character.

"I spit on Rip, but he didn't know I was actually going to do it, and he picked me up by the back of my neck, by my clothes, and had me suspended in midair, and everyone in the studio stood up like 'Ah!

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