Legendary actress, Sally Kirkland, dies at 84 #death #hollywood #actress #sally #dementia #rip

She starred in hit movies such as Bruce Almighty, The Haunted and The Sting. Michael Greene, her representative, revealed she took her final breath at 1:50pm PT this morning, as per TMZ. She died days after entering hospice care and had battled ill health in recent years. This year, she fractured bones in her neck, right wrist, and left hip. And, she had battled two separate life-threatening infections. Kirkland was left bruised and injured following a fall while she was in the shower unattended, according to a GoFundMe post from October. Her acting career spanned more than 60 years. She won the Best Actress Golden Globe Award and Best Actress Independent Spirit Award in 1988 for her role in Anna. Kirkland was nominated for the Best Actress in a Leading Role gong in the 1988 Oscars. She starred as Anita in the movie Bruce Almighty, which was released in 2003. Kirkland, from New York City, also played Crystal in The Sting – a movie which also featured Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Robert Shaw. The actress also made cameo appearances in shows such as Kojak, Starsky and Hutch, and Charlie’s Angels during the 1970s and 1980s. She appeared in one episode of General Hospital in 1982. Alongside her role in Anna, she appeared in movies such as Cold Feet, Talking Walls, White Hot, and High Stakes. Kirkland played Helen Lawson in Valley of the Dolls in 1994, appearing in 65 episodes. And, she appeared in a 1995 episode of Murder, She Wrote. Kirkland starred as Tracey Simpson in 31 episodes of the series Days of Our Lives in 1999. One of her final roles was in the movie Sallywood, where she played herself. She won a best acting gong at the 2024 Santa Clarita International Film Festival. Away from the big screen, Kirkland was named one of Andy Warhol’s 13 Most Beautiful Women in 1964. She made history in 1968 by becoming the first woman to appear fully naked in the off-Broadway production, Sweet Eros. #neverforget #history #taphophile #forgotten #gravesite #cemetery #grave #cemeterylovers #cemeteryexploration #death #abandonedcemetery #art #atrest #cemeterylovers #death #deathcertificate #deathnote #dead #explore #emotional #england #forgotten #foryou #funeral #gravesite #gravestone #grave #history #highgatecemetery #headstone #information #kids #laidtorest #lifeanddeath #love #like #memorial #macabre #mortal #neverforget #nationalcemetery #nature #oldgraveyard #oneday #peaceful #pleasehelp #postmortem #post_mortem #rip #remember #resting #reels #service #sacrifice #someone #someoneyoulove #taphophile #viralvideo #widow #victorian #education #educate #historic #historical #dead #death #died #funeral #burial #famous #celebrity #hearse #flowers #mourning #opencasket #casket #coffin