In October 1970, she received word from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that George Cukor, supported by others, was petitioning the Academy to nominate her for Best Actress for her work in Trash, but nothing came of this. Woodlawn was paid $25 per day during filming, spending the last day's on heroin.

Woodlawn ad libbed many of the lines herself, preferring creativity to strict adherence to the script. The pair contrasted the other with violent episodes of over-dose matched by improvisation and sulky rejection. In Trash, Joe Dallesandro plays a heroin addict on a quest to score who, ambivalent about his sexuality, has a transgender girlfriend played by Woodlawn. In October, she originally was given a bit role in Trash, but so impressed director and screenwriter Paul Morrissey that he re-wrote it to give her a much larger role.

Through him she met Jackie Curtis, who cast Woodlawn in her play Heaven Grand in Amber Orbit in the autumn of 1969. Woodlawn met Andy Warhol at the Factory, at a screening of Flesh (1968). She recalled in her memoir, A Low Life in High Heels:Īt the age of 16, when most kids were cramming for trigonometry exams, I was turning tricks, living off the streets and wondering when my next meal was coming.īy 1969, she had considered sex reassignment surgery, but decided against it. had to hitchhike the rest of the way' to New York City. made it all the way to Georgia, where the money ran out and. She recollected that 'I hocked some jewelry and. In 1962, at the age of fifteen, Woodlawn ran away from home, leaving Florida heading north. After changing her name she began to falsely tell people she was the heiress to Woodlawn Cemetery. She adopted the name Holly from the heroine of Breakfast at Tiffany's, and in 1969 added the surname from a sign she saw on an episode of I Love Lucy. Army, and Aminta Rodriguez, a native Puerto Rican, and grew up in Miami Beach, where she came out at a young age.

Woodlawn was born in Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, to a German-American father who was a soldier in the U.S.

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