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

Transparent

An American Family

I Am Divine

Night Owl

Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss

Beautiful Darling

All Movies (45)

• Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders2026 · as Self (archive footage)
• Candy Darling2025 · as Self
• Beyond Queer: Voices from Bohemia2023
• Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies2019 · as Self (archive footage)
• Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story2015 · as Self
• I Am Divine2014 · as Self
• Lou Reed - Remembered2013
• Continental2013 · as Herself
• Dust2012 · as Rita
• She Gone Rogue2012
• Beautiful Darling2010 · as Self
• Heaven Wants Out2009 · as Evelyn Morton
• Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory2008
• Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis2007 · as Self
• Queer Realities and Cultural Amnesia2005
• Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis2004 · as Self
• Milwaukee, Minnesota2003 · as Transvestite
• The Cockettes2002 · as Self
• A Look on the Wild Side2002 · as Herself
• Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture2001 · as Self
• Twin Falls Idaho1999 · as Flamboyant at Party
• Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss1998 · as Holly
• Bubblegum1996
• Phantom Pain1996
• Beverly Hills Hustlers1996 · as Non-sexual role
• Scathed1995 · as Miss Antonia Curtis
• The Matinee Idol1995 · as Party Guest
• Night Owl1993 · as Barfly
• Resident Alien1990 · as Performer / Actor
• Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol1990 · as Self
• Nelson Sullivan1989
• The Sound Of Muzak1986 · as Maria
• Tally Brown, New York1979
• Take Off1978 · as Lounge Singer ("1940's")
• This Is America1977 · as Self (uncredited)
• Underground and Emigrants1976 · as Self
• Holly Woodlawn1973 · as Self
• Broken Goddess1973 · as Herself
• The Best of the New York Erotic Film Festival1972 · as Self
• Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers1972 · as Eve Harrington / Rhett Butler
• Andy Warhol1972 · as Self
• Women in Revolt1971 · as Holly
• Is There Sex After Death?1971 · as Herself
• Bad Marien's Last Year1971 · as Angel
• Trash1970 · as Holly Sandiago

All TV Shows (2)

• Transparent2014 · as Vivian
• An American Family1973 · as Self (uncredited)