| Linda Kozlowski | |
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 Linda Kozlowski, January 1987 |
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| Born | January 7, 1958 Fairfield, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Education | Juilliard School (1981) |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1981–2001 |
| Spouse | Paul Hogan (1990–present) |
Linda Kozlowski (born January 7, 1958) is an American actress. She has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
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Early life and education [link]
Kozlowski was born and raised in Fairfield, Connecticut to a Polish American family.[citation needed] She is 1976 graduate of Fairfield's Andrew Warde High School.[1] Kozlowski graduated from the Juilliard School's drama division in 1981,[2] where one of her classmates was Val Kilmer.[3]
Career [link]
Kozlowski debuted in the 1981–1982 off-Broadway production, How It All Began. She played "Miss Forsythe" on Broadway in Death of a Salesman and in 1984 took the same role in the film version of 1985.
Her big break came in 1986 when she was cast as the female lead opposite Paul Hogan in the Australian film Crocodile Dundee, in which their on-screen chemistry spilled over into a real relationship. They had initially met in Litomyšl, Czech Republic while wine-tasting. Two years later, she revisited her starring role with Hogan in Crocodile Dundee II. Also in 1988 she starred with Bill Paxton, Tim Curry and Annie Potts in Pass the Ammo.
Since that time, she has appeared in Almost an Angel in 1990, Backstreet Justice (with Paul Sorvino) and The Neighbour (with Rod Steiger) in 1994, and Village of the Damned in 1995. In 2001, she starred again with Hogan in Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, the least successful of the trilogy.
Personal life [link]
Kozlowski married Hogan on May 5, 1990,[4] following his divorce from his wife Noelene, to whom he had been married for 32 years (1958–1990). Linda and Paul have one child, a boy named Chance. Kozlowski had been married once, prior to her marriage to Hogan.[4]
She has largely left the acting business because of dissatisfaction with the roles she was getting, stating "These straight-to-video, schlocky films I was getting were giving me an ulcer, basically because I was the only one on the set that cared about anything... Between that and my biological clock, I decided to give it all away."[5]
References [link]
- ^ "Happy Birthday, Linda Kozlowski, AWHS Class of 1976". AndrewWarde.com. January 6, 2008. https://www.andrewwarde.com/2008/01/happy-birthday-linda-kozlowski.html.
- ^ Bernstein, Fred (November 10, 1986). "Buoyed by Crocodile Dundee, Linda Kozlowski Is Floating Her Stock on the Movie Market". People. https://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20094967,00.html. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
- ^ "Time Capsule". Juilliard Journal. Juilliard School. April 2010. https://www.juilliard.edu/journal/2009-2010/1004/articles/time-capsule.php. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
- ^ a b "Paul Hogan weds co-star Kozlowski". Milwaukee Journal. May 6, 1990. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SWoaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FCwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5629,4363797. Retrieved November 20, 2010.
- ^ Lee, Luaine (April 21, 2001). "Linda Kozlowski: Giving up acting was no big deal". Spartanburg Herald-Journal. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kboeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=A9AEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5236,8556208. Retrieved November 20, 2010.
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