Hollywood icon Sally Kirkland is in hospice after battling devastating health issues this past year.
Kirkland’s representative Michael Greene told the Daily Mail the actress, 84, is now in a hospice at a Palm Springs hospital after becoming afflicted with dementia this last year.
A GoFundMe set up for Kirkland reveals the actress faced ‘two separate life-threatening infections’ after fracturing multiple bones this past year and is now ‘resting comfortable’ at the hospice.
Greene said he is now travelling from JFK to see Kirkland and that she ‘will not go until I’m holding her hand.’ Cody Galloway, her dear friend and former student, is currently with Kirkland.
‘This past year Sally fractured her four bones in her neck, right wrist, and her left hip,’ the GoFundMe, which is seeking to raise money for Kirkland’s medical expenses, states.
‘While recovering she developed two separate life-threatening infections.’
Hollywood icon Sally Kirkland is in hospice after battling a health ordeal; pictured 1988
Kirkland’s representative Michael Greene told Daily Mail the actress, 84, is now in a hospice at a Palm Springs hospital after becoming afflicted with dementia this last year
‘The combination of these injuries and infections have required extensive hospitalizations and rehab beyond the 100 days insurance will cover.’
The legendary actress is best known for her films The Sting and Anna, the ladder of which earned her an Oscar nomination and Golden Globe win.
Kirkland’s illustrious acting career goes back to the 1960s, with IMDb listing her first-ever role in the 1960 movie Crack In The Mirror.
In the years to follow, she made appearances in a slew of classic TV shows including Hawaii Five-O, Three’s Company, and Charlie’s Angels.
Kirkland had a comeback when she co-starred with model Paulina Porizkova in the drama Anna in 1987, landing her a Best Actress Oscar nomination and Golden Globe win.
Other notable big screen roles was the part of Anita Mann in Bruce Almighty and a starring role in the Kevin Costner led film JFK.
Kirkland also starred in the 2014 short Tom in America.
More recently she was apart of the star-studded cast for 80 For Brady, the film starring Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Rita Morena, and Lily Tomlin as massive Tom Brady fans.
On the small screen, she starred in the TV movies Heat Wave, Steel Magnolias, and was also a regular on Felicity.
She’s also worked with Hollywood heavyweights Paul Newman and Robert Redford in The Sting.
Kirkland became the winner of two Golden Globes in her career; pictured 1988
She also has served as the inspiration for others.
A 2024 film Sallywood follows an aspiring writer and Kirkland fan who attempts to revive her career after a chance meeting with the actress.
Not only that, but she rubbed elbows with influential types as well; she was a member of Andy Warhol’s factory.
Kirkland got her start as a model.
She told Jeff Cramer in 2016: ‘My mother was the assistant editor of Vogue for many years and then she was fashion editor of Vogue I think from ’47, ’48 and she was the first person to put multiple models on one page.
Kirkland’s illustrious acting career goes back to the 1960s, with IMDb listing her first-ever role in the 1960 movie Crack In The Mirror
‘She was also the first person to bring Italian fashions to this country post-war. So I was brought up as a child being photographed by Irving Penn for Vogue and eventually Richard Avedon as well.
‘I had this whole socialite modeling career with my mother not because I really wanted to, because I was painfully shy, but she just kept putting me in these situations where I was in front of the camera.’
But that changed when she met her idol.
‘I was obsessed with Marilyn Monroe and also at 18 I had met Shelley Winters who took me under her wing, adopted me,’ she said.
‘She had lived with Marilyn. So she gave me Marilyn’s shoes that were open toe, open back and they were called F*** Me Shoes according to Shelley. I wore them everywhere,’ she added.
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