Marilyn Burns

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1949-07-05 (65 years old)

Deathday

2014-08-05

Place of Birth

Erie, Pennsylvania, USA

Marilyn Burns

Biography

Marilyn Burns was born Mary Lynn Ann Burns on May 7, 1949 in Erie, Pennsylvania, and raised in Houston, Texas. She attended the University of Texas at Austin where she graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Drama. Marilyn was one of the original scream queens, remembered primarily for her role in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). She played Sally Hardesty, a teenager who travels with her brother and some friends to the cemetery where her grandfather was buried to investigate reports of grave vandalism, and then encounters an insane, murderous family, including the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface. Her follow-up appearance was in Eaten Alive (...

Acting

1976

1974

Lovin' Molly

as Sarah / Molly (uncredited)

1976

Helter Skelter

as Linda Kasabian

2017

1985

Future-Kill

as Dorothy Grim

2013

Texas Chainsaw 3D

as Verna Carson

2013

1975

The Great Waldo Pepper

as Spectator (uncredited)

2014

Sacrament

as Beulah Standifer

1981

Kiss Daddy Goodbye

as Nora Dennis

1970

Brewster McCloud

as Tour Guide (uncredited)

Production

1974

Lovin' Molly

as Stand In

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