Linda Kozlowski: biography, films, personal life of actress

In this article, let's talk about the famous American actress Linda Kozlowski. Biography, successful roles, the personal life of the artist - all this will be discussed later in the material.

early years

Actress Linda Kozlowski was born on January 7, 1958 in the provincial American town of Fairfield, Connecticut. Since childhood, the girl has shown an interest in film art. Therefore, after reaching adulthood, I went to study the stage skills in the prestigious actor's school Juilliard. Here, our heroine studied opera, took part in theatrical productions. However, the end of the famous school did not bring the young actress any dividends.

Trying to find a job, Linda Kozlowski went to New York. Here she played in Broadway theatrical productions. Soon the actress became a real star of such popular performances as "The Death of a Salesman" and "How it all began." It was on the theatrical stage that the beginning actress was noticed by authoritative filmmakers.

Debut in the cinema

For the first time on wide screens, Linda Kozlowski got light in 1985. During this period, the young theater actress was offered the role of Miss Forsythe in the film adaptation of Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman. Here, the beginning actress was lucky enough to work on the same platform with Dustin Hoffman himself , who played an aging loser, intending to commit suicide in order to pay off family debts. It is noteworthy that on broad screens, Linda Kozlowski appeared in an image familiar to her from the Broadway production of the same name.

The starry hour of the actress

True success awaited Linda Kozlowski already a year after a fairly visible debut in the movie. In 1986, the beginning actress was offered the role of a journalist named Sue Charlton in the comic tape "Crocodile Dundee", the wonderful Australian director Peter Faiman. Participation in the project allowed the actress at the start of her career to ascend to the level of a real screen star. Acknowledgment of the high status of the actress was her nomination for the Golden Globe Award in 1987. Ahead of the actress was expected no less successful shooting in the continuation of the popular story of "Crocodile Dundee".

Other successful roles

Filming in the film "Crocodile Dundee" gave a great start to the development of the career of a young actress. Soon, promising roles fell on her one after another. In 1988, Linde got the image of one of the central heroines of the comedy film "Pass the bullets." Two years later, Kozlovski again played, now with her husband Paul Hogan, in a successful film directed by John Cornell "Almost an angel."

Extremely successful for the actress was and 1993. During this period, she received a place in the new project of the famous director Rodney Gibbons - a horror film called "Neighbor".

Then the actress was followed by the main role in the sensational crime drama "According to the law of the streets." Here, Linda played a female detective, who is investigating fraud with real estate. It is worth noting that for this work the actress received not the most positive reviews of critics. However, the rather cool perception of the film by a wide audience did not affect its high status as a Hollywood star.

Completion of career

In 2001, Linda Kozlowski took part in her latest film, Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles. In fact, being at the peak of her career, the actress dumbfounded the audience with a statement about stopping all kinds of filming. The reason was the disappointment of the famous actress because of the lack of perspective roles. In one of her interviews Linda noted that she does not intend to appear in second-rate films, in which she is offered to play in recent years. The actress declared contempt for her own person on the part of the filmmakers, referred to her venerable age and assured the audience that she would never appear again on the set.

Linda Kozlowski: movies

For her howling career in Hollywood cinema, the actress starred in the following films:

• "Death of a Salesman."
• "Pass the bullets."
• "Almost an angel."
• Crocodile Dundee.
• "Beloved son."
• "Neighbor".
• "Nurse".
• Crocodile Dundee-2.
• "Zorn."
• Shaughnessy.
• "According to the law of the streets."
• "Village of the Damned."
• "Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles."

Personal life

In 1990, Linda connected her life with a shooting partner and starring in the film "Crocodile Dundee" - Paul Hogan. Soon the first-born of the famous couple appeared, who was named Chance.

Prior to dating Kozlowski, the actor was married twice. To marry Linda, he had to take part in protracted litigation with his ex-wife. The process lasted 4 years, after which the actors still received the official right to marry.

In 2014, Kozlowski and Hogan decided to part. The initiator of the rupture of relations was the 56-year-old actress. As a reason, which was indicated in the court documents, it was stated that there were irreconcilable contradictions in the family life. The actress demanded from her husband the right to sole custody of his son, as well as payment of alimony. Ultimately, the court ordered Paul Hogan to share with his former wife his capital, which at the time was estimated at $ 20 million.