Legendary actress Sally Kirkland, 84, enters hospice

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Hollywood icon Sally Kirkland is in hospice after battling devastating health issues. 

Michael Greene, a representative for Kirkland, told TMZ that the 84-year-old actress is currently receiving hospice care at a hospital in Palm Springs. She was diagnosed with dementia last year.

A GoFundMe page details that the actress has been battling serious health issues. After breaking several bones this year, she developed two life-threatening infections and is now receiving care at a hospice, where she is reported to be comfortable.

According to a GoFundMe page created to help with her medical bills, Sally broke four bones – in her neck, right wrist, and left hip – last year. During her recovery, she also battled two serious, life-threatening infections.

Because of these injuries and infections, the patient needed a lot of hospital care and rehabilitation – more than what their insurance covers in the first 100 days.

The Oscar nominated actress is best known for her films The Sting and Anna. 

Kirkland began her impressive acting career in the 1960s, with her earliest credited role appearing in the 1960 film, Crack In The Mirror.

Over the next few years, she guest-starred on many popular television shows, such as Hawaii Five-O, Three’s Company, and Charlie’s Angels.

In 1987, Kirkland revitalized her career by appearing alongside Paulina Porizkova in the drama Anna, a performance that earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

She appeared in several TV movies, including Heat Wave and Steel Magnolias, and also had a recurring role on the show Felicity.

She recently appeared in the film 80 For Brady, alongside Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Rita Moreno, and Lily Tomlin, playing a devoted fan of Tom Brady.

Kirkland got her start as a model.

In a 2016 conversation with Jeff Cramer, she recalled that her mother worked at Vogue for many years, starting as an assistant editor and later becoming the fashion editor around 1947 or 1948. Her mother was a pioneer, being the first to feature multiple models on a single page.

She pioneered Italian fashion in this country after the war. Growing up, I was fortunate enough to be photographed by renowned photographers like Irving Penn for Vogue, and later by Richard Avedon.

I ended up doing a lot of modeling as a kid, mostly because my mom pushed me into it. I was actually very shy, but she kept putting me in front of the camera and into those kinds of social situations.

But that changed when she met her idol.

She explained that she was fascinated by Marilyn Monroe, and when she was eighteen, she met Shelley Winters, who became a mentor and almost like a mother to her.

She had previously lived with Marilyn and, according to Shelley, gave me a pair of Marilyn’s shoes. They were open-toed, backless, and Shelley called them ‘F Me Shoes.’ I ended up wearing them all the time, she said.

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2025-11-10 02:18