Holly Woodlawn
Birthdate
October 26, 1946 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico
Date of Death
December 6, 2015
Known For
Acting
Details
Birthdate
October 26, 1946 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico
Date of Death
December 6, 2015
Known For
Acting
Biography
Holly Woodlawn was a transgender Puerto Rican actress and Warhol superstar who appeared in his movies Trash and Women in Revolt. She was probably best known as the Holly in Lou Reed's hit pop song "Walk on the Wild Side".
Holly Woodlawn's LGBTQ+ Titles
Beautiful Darling
Self
I Am Divine
Self
Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss
Holly
Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story
Self
Acting (39)
2023
Beyond Queer: Voices from Bohemia
2020
Disclosure as Holly Sandiago (archive footage)
2019
Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies as Self (archive footage)
2015
2014
Transparent as Vivian (2 episodes)
2013
Continental as Herself
2013
I Am Divine as Self
2012
Dust as Rita
2012
She Gone Rogue
2010
Beautiful Darling as Self
2009
Heaven Wants Out as Evelyn Morton
2008
Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
2007
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis as Herself
2005
Queer Realities and Cultural Amnesia
2004
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis as Self
2002
The Cockettes as Self
2002
A Look on the Wild Side as Herself
2001
Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture as Herself
1999
Twin Falls Idaho as Flamboyant at Party
1998
Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss as Holly
1996
Bubblegum
1996
Phantom Pain
1995
Scathed as Miss Antonia Curtis
1993
Night Owl as Barfly
1990
Resident Alien as Performer / Actor
1990
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol as Self
1989
Nelson Sullivan
1986
The Sound Of Muzak as Maria
1979
Tally Brown, New York
1977
This Is America as Self (uncredited)
1976
Underground and Emigrants as Self
1973
Broken Goddess as Herself
1972
The Best of the New York Erotic Film Festival as Self
1972
Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers as Eve Harrington / Rhett Butler
1972
Andy Warhol as Self
1971
Women in Revolt as Holly
1971
Is There Sex After Death? as Herself
1971
Bad Marien's Last Year as Angel
1970
Trash as Holly Sandiago