Holly Woodlawn

1946 - 2015 (age 69) • Acting

Born: 10/26/1946 in Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico

Died: 12/6/2015 (age 69)

Known for: Acting

Holly Woodlawn

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".

Known For

Transparent

64%

Vivian

2014

Trash

57%

Holly Sandiago

1970

Beautiful Darling

63%

Self

2010

Night Owl

40%

Barfly

1993

Women in Revolt

52%

Holly

1971

Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers

70%

Eve Harrington / Rhett Butler

1972

An American Family

54%

Self (uncredited)

1973

Is There Sex After Death?

38%

Herself

1971

Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders

Self (archive footage)

2026

Candy Darling

Self

2025

Beyond Queer: Voices from Bohemia

2023

Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies

Self (archive footage)

2019

Andy Warhol, Fluorescent

50%

(archive footage)

2016

Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story

57%

Self

2015

Transparent

64%

Vivian

2014

I Am Divine

73%

Self

2014

Lou Reed - Remembered

65%

2013

Continental

20%

Herself

2013

Dust

Rita

2012

She Gone Rogue

2012

Beautiful Darling

63%

Self

2010

Heaven Wants Out

Evelyn Morton

2009

Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory

29%

2008

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

67%

Self

2007

Queer Realities and Cultural Amnesia

2005

Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis

41%

Self

2004

Milwaukee, Minnesota

48%

Transvestite

2003

The Cockettes

69%

Self

2002

A Look on the Wild Side

Herself

2002

Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture

80%

Self

2001

Twin Falls Idaho

69%

Flamboyant at Party

1999

Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss

59%

Holly

1998

Bubblegum

1996

Phantom Pain

33%

1996

Beverly Hills Hustlers

70%

Non-sexual role

1996

Scathed

65%

Miss Antonia Curtis

1995