Hollywood icon Sally Kirkland is in hospice after battling devastating health issues.
Kirkland’s representative Michael Greene told TMZ 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.
‘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.
‘The combination of these injuries and infections have required extensive hospitalizations and rehab beyond the 100 days insurance will cover.’
The Oscar nominated actress is best known for her films The Sting and Anna.
Hollywood icon Sally Kirkland is in hospice after battling a health ordeal
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.
On small screen, she starred in the TV movies Heat Wave, Steel Magnolias, and was also a regular on Felicity.
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.
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 became the winner of two Golden Globes in her career
‘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.
