Sally Kirkland, US actress who earned Oscar nomination in Anna, dies aged 84

Actress Sally Kirkland appears at the 75th annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles on March 23 2003 (Kim D Johnson/AP)

American actress Sally Kirkland, best known for sharing the screen with Paul Newman and Robert Redford in The Sting and her Oscar-nominated title role in the 1987 movie Anna, has died aged 84.

Her representative, Michael Greene, said Kirkland died on Tuesday morning at a Palm Springs hospice.