Holly Woodlawn

Acting

October 26, 1946

— December 6, 2015

Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico

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".

Movies

Popularity

IMDb

Known For (30 movies)

Milwaukee, Minnesota

Transvestite

2003

The Cockettes

Self

2002

Nelson Sullivan

Unknown role

1989

Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss

Holly

1998

Andy Warhol

Self

1972

Women in Revolt

Holly

1971

This Is America

Self (uncredited)

1977

Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies

Self (archive footage)

2019

Tally Brown, New York

Unknown role

1979

Night Owl

Barfly

1993

The Best of the New York Erotic Film Festival

Self

1972

I Am Divine

Self

2014

Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers

Eve Harrington / Rhett Butler

1972

Trash

Holly Sandiago

1970

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

Self

2007

Holly Woodlawn

Self

1973

Twin Falls Idaho

Flamboyant at Party

1999

Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story

Self

2015

Bubblegum

Unknown role

1996

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

Unknown role

2008

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

Self

1990

Underground and Emigrants

Self

1976

Beautiful Darling

Self

2010

Resident Alien

Performer / Actor

1990

Queer Realities and Cultural Amnesia

Unknown role

2005

Broken Goddess

Herself

1973

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

Self

2004

The Sound Of Muzak

Maria

1986

Beyond Queer: Voices from Bohemia

Unknown role

2023

Candy Darling

Self

2025