Sally Kellerman arrived quite young on the late 1950s film and TV scene with a fresh and distinctively weird, misfit presence. It is this same uniqueness that continues to makes her such an attractively offbeat performer today. The willowy, swan-necked, flaxen-haired actress shot to film comedy fame after toiling nearly a decade and a half in the business, and is still most brazenly remembered for her career-maker -- the irreverent hit _MASH . She has three adopted children.
Harrison Ford built her a deck when he supported himself as a carpenter.
Supplements her ongoing film career with stints as a nightclub singer, television and radio narrator and voice-overs.
Member of Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
Adopted her niece Claire in 1976. Claires mother (Sallys sister) moved to France and her father died two days after his consent to adopt. Sally is also the adoptive mother of two twins, Jack and Hannah Krane (born 1989) with second husband Jonathan D. Krane.
Resided at the Plaza Hotel in New York City during the filming of Last of the Red Hot Lovers .
Donfeld designed her Academy Award dress the year she was nominated for MASH .
In 1973, declined former editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine Grace Mirabella s offer of a 10 page spread.
Turned down roles in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice , The Poseidon Adventure , and Robert Altman s Nashville .
The late Jennifer Jones was her mentor and close confidante. They took group therapy together. Among them were Robert Loggia , Blake Edwards , Dudley Moore , and Jonathan D. Krane whom eventually, she would marry.
Luana Anders , Anjanette Comer , Lisabeth Hush and Joanne Linville were among some of her bridesmaids in 1970 - Kellermans first marriage.
Friend of John Travolta and Kelly Preston.
(April 2013) Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival presented her with a Lifetime Achievement Award at Cinema Paradiso-Fort Lauderdale.
(February 2009) Released her first album since "Roll with the Feelin", entitled "Sally", a jazz and blues album.
(June 2012) Atlanta, Georgia: Attended a special screening of MASH . Gave three performances at Jerry Farbers Side Door.
(April 2013) Released her autobiography, "Read My Lips: Stories of a Hollywood Life".
While in high school, she and Yvette Mimieux sang with the all-male quartet The Four Preps.
She and Luana Anders were best friends in high school.
I hope to have some more cracks at some wonderful roles before I go to,the Great Beyond.
And still looking. Nothing. On page forty, maybe I found a single line.
Sissy played my topless housekeeper and was a sheer delight. Memories,of her Texas draw still bring a smile to my face.
I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead. .
