Holly Woodlawn
Acting • Born 1946-10-26 – Died 2015-12-06
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".
Filmography
45 credits
Resident Alien
Movie • 1990
Performer / Actor
Night Owl
Movie • 1993
Barfly
This Is America
Movie • 1977
Self (uncredited)
Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss
Movie • 1998
Holly
Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story
Movie • 2015
Self
Queer Realities and Cultural Amnesia
Movie • 2005
Scathed
Movie • 1995
Miss Antonia Curtis
Trash
Movie • 1970
Holly Sandiago
The Best of the New York Erotic Film Festival
Movie • 1972
Self
Beverly Hills Hustlers
Movie • 1996
Non-sexual role
Women in Revolt
Movie • 1971
Holly
Take Off
Movie • 1978
Lounge Singer ("1940's")
Is There Sex After Death?
Movie • 1971
Herself
I Am Divine
Movie • 2014
Self
Beyond Queer: Voices from Bohemia
Movie • 2023
Andy Warhol
Movie • 1972
Self
Bad Marien's Last Year
Movie • 1971
Angel
Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers
Movie • 1972
Eve Harrington / Rhett Butler
Heaven Wants Out
Movie • 2009
Evelyn Morton
The Sound Of Muzak
Movie • 1986
Maria
Phantom Pain
Movie • 1996
Tally Brown, New York
Movie • 1979
Underground and Emigrants
Movie • 1976
Self
Nelson Sullivan
Movie • 1989
She Gone Rogue
Movie • 2012
Dust
Movie • 2012
Rita
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Movie • 2007
Self
Beautiful Darling
Movie • 2010
Self
A Look on the Wild Side
Movie • 2002
Herself
Broken Goddess
Movie • 1973
Herself
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Movie • 2004
Self
Bubblegum
Movie • 1996
Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
Movie • 2001
Self
Continental
Movie • 2013
Herself
The Cockettes
Movie • 2002
Self
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Movie • 1990
Self
Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
Movie • 2008
Twin Falls Idaho
Movie • 1999
Flamboyant at Party
The Matinee Idol
Movie • 1995
Party Guest
Holly Woodlawn
Movie • 1973
Self
Milwaukee, Minnesota
Movie • 2003
Transvestite
Candy Darling
Movie • 2025
Self
Transparent
TV • 2014
Vivian
An American Family
TV • 1973
Self (uncredited)