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