| Linda Kozlowski | |
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Linda Kozlowski in January 1987. |
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| Born | January 7, 1958 Fairfield, Connecticut, U.S. |
| 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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Kozlowski was born in Fairfield, Connecticut to a Polish family. She trained at the Juilliard School as an opera singer, and soon after graduating she debuted in the 1981-1982 off-Broadway production, How It All Began.
From there, she played "Miss Forsythe" on Broadway in Death of a Salesman in 1984 and took the same role in the film version of 1985.
Her biggest 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. 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, which was the least successful of the trilogy.
Kozlowski married Hogan on May 5, 1990,[1] following his divorce from his wife Noelene, to whom he had been married for 32 years (1958–90). They have one child, a boy named Chance. Kozlowski had been married once prior to Hogan.[1]
She has largely left the acting business due to 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."[2]