The famous and beautiful actress Linda Kozlowski made her breakthrough after 1986 film Crocodile Dundee, where she acted in the role of Sue Charlton.
Her life got changed after Crocodile Dundee. The actress starred in three Dundee movies, and then left the industry.
She was born in 1958, in Connecticut. She was raised in Fairfield, and graduated from Andrew Warde High School in 1976.
Since she was a small girl, Linda loved acting. She was accepted into Juilliard School’s drama division. After she graduated, Linda moved to New York to pursue a career as an actress.
She appeared some off-Broadway plays like “How It All Began,” and then also she appeared in TV and silver screen, like, “Death of a Salesman.”
After the movie, she had a great friendship with her co-star, Dustin Hoffman. “It was cold in New York,” the actress said. “And I didn’t see any other work in sight, and I was sort of miserable.”
With his wife, Dustin Hoffman helped Linda as they welcomed her into their Malibu beach home. After six weeks in there, Linda received her place in Crocodile Dundee.
“There was a feeling in that room that was so positive,” Linda said. “I never once thought, ‘Oh, my God, this might not work.’”
“Dustin asked me, ‘Who are these people? What are their names, and where are they staying?’,” she recalled. “And I told him. So just as they were calling me to say I had the part, they got a phone call: It was Dustin Hoffman. At first they thought it was a friend doing a bad impersonation.”
“Once they realized it was Hoffman, they were just beaming. It was a sign they’d made the right decision.”
William DeAcutis shared, “Dustin’s call was like the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, but Linda got the movie because they liked her.”
When Linda was in Australia for the movie, Crocodile Dundee, she was shocked. “It was 4 o’clock in the morning, freezing cold, with kangaroos and wild buffalo roaming around. I was in a daze,” Linda said.
After the movie, she became a huge name in Australia, while she was not in the states. “It was a bit like being Cinderella,” Linda Kozlowski shared. “In Australia, I’d be riding about in limos, whereas here I was still running around in my old Toyota trying to see casting directors.”
“But I’ll tell you where I was a big star,” Linda added. “In Fairfield, Conn., where I grew up. My parents, Stanley and Helen Kozlowski, still live there, and when the movie opened they saw it again and again.
“What’s funny is the local paper never referred to me as ‘Linda,’ always as ‘Stanley’s daughter.’ It was ‘Stanley’s daughter says this…’ and ‘Stanley’s daughter says that’…”
When the third Dundee movie was released, Linda was married with her co-star Paul Hogan.
They married in 1990, and as Los Angeles Times reported, Hogan gave her a mansion which worth $2 million.
Linda shared that all of the projects came after Dundee wanted her to act the same role as she did in Dundee.
“After Crocodile Dundee I turned down lots of stuff, most of it where I’d play the girlfriend of some funny man,” Linda said.
“I use them for kindling, to get the fire started,” she laughed.
“That’s about all they’re good for. I was getting very depressed, but finally something good did come along–‘Pass the Ammo.’ That’s been a long time coming out, but now there’s a release date.” she said.
After 23 years, they divorced in 2014. “I lived in Paul’s shadow for many, many years and it’s nice to feel my own light right now,” Linda said.
“Honestly, we just naturally grew apart. One of our problems was we really had nothing in common and, over time, that happens to a lot of people.”
“We were opposites and we were attracted to each other for a long time. Opposites in everything,” Hogan said on the other hand.
“From the food we ate, the music we liked, the entertainment we liked, the colors, the clothes, the places, everything, It worked anyway.”
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