Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1949-07-05 (65 years old)
Deathday
2014-08-05
Place of Birth
Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
Also known As
Mary Lynn Ann Burns
Sally H.
Sally
Sally H
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 (...
1976
as Faye
1974
as Sally
1974
as Sarah / Molly (uncredited)
1995
as Patient on Gurney
1976
as Linda Kasabian
2000
as Self
1983
as Carmen
2017
as Mrs. Hill
1985
as Dorothy Grim
2013
as Verna Carson
2013
as Ruth
2000
1975
as Spectator (uncredited)
2014
as Beulah Standifer
1981
as Nora Dennis
1970
as Tour Guide (uncredited)
1974
as Stand In
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