Marilyn Burns played the role of Sally Hardesty in Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
 She played Linda Kasabian in the Emmy-nominated miniseries Helter Skelter (1976) and thereafter sporadically worked in acting, notably portraying Faye in Tobe Hooper's Eaten Alive (1977) and Dorothy Grim in Future-Kill (1985)
" Screen Rant ranked Burns' performance first on their list of the "10 Greatest Female Performances in Horror Film History", writing that she "is so convincing in her work as the mentally broken Sally that the audience cant help but be left shaken and deeply disturbed by the time the end credits roll

