Linda Kozlowski – Bio, Net Worth, Family Life and Other Interesting Facts • Wikiace

Linda Kozlowski is an American film and television actress who is best known for playing the role of Sue Charlton in the film series Crocodile Dundee. She has also earned a nomination for the Golden Globe Awards. Kozlowski is an alumnus of the prestigious Julliard School in New York City where she studied Drama. She also learned opera singing while at Julliard, graduating in 1981. In a modest career spanning well over three decades, critics are of the opinion that an actress of her talent should have graced the big screen a lot more.

Linda Kozlowski’s Bio

Linda Kozlowski was born on January 7, 1958, in Fairfield, Connecticut. Her parents, Stanley and Helen Kozlowski are of Polish descent. Kozlowski was raised in Fairfield, Connecticut and attended Andrew Warde High School, Fairfield. She graduated from high school in 1976.

Kozlowski’s debut on the acting scene was on How It All Began, an off-Broadway production that ran between 1981 and 1982. In 1984, she played Miss Forsythe on the Broadway show, Death of a Salesman. She later played the same role in the movie version of Death of a Salesman the following year.

She became a movie star as a result of her leading female role in the Crocodile Dundee in 1986 opposite co-star Paul Hogan. In Crocodile Dundee, she played the role of Sue Charlton, a New York newspaper reporter who travels to Australia to meet Mick Dundee, a legendary bushman and winds up greatly fascinated by him that she brings him back to New York with her.

She also starred in the 1988 sequel Crocodile Dundee II and the 2001 sequel Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles. In 1988, she starred in Pass the Ammo with Annie Potts, Bill, and Tim Curry as co-stars.

Kozlowski has appeared in a few other films besides Crocodile Dundee, these include Almost an Angel in 1990, The Neighbor alongside Rod Steiger in 1994, Backstreet Justice alongside Paul Sorvino in 1994 as well as Village of the Damned in which played the role of a widow Jill McGowan. The Village of the Damned was released in 1995. Kozlowski’s role as Sue Charlton in the widely acclaimed Crocodile Dundee II earned her a Golden Globe Awards nomination in 1988.

Kozlowski has stopped acting and has not been in any movie since after Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles in 2001. She attributed this to being dissatisfied with the type of roles she had been getting, this informed her decision to drop her acting career altogether.

Net Worth

Linda Kozlowski has a net worth of 10 million dollars. She received a $6.25 million divorce settlement. Among other properties, she owns a $2 million home on the Venice beachfront, Los Angeles, California

Family Life

A real-life romance ensued between Kozlowski and Crocodile Dundee co-star Paul Hogan from the on-screen romance of their characters. Paul Hogan is an Australian actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in 1986 for his role as Michael Dundee in Crocodile Dundee.

He was also an Academy Awards nominee for Best Original Screenplay the same year for the same role. Their love affair blossomed into marriage after Paul Hogan divorced his wife, Noelene Edwards for the second time in 1990. Kozlowski had also married before. Kozlowski had a son with Hogan – Chance Hogan – in 1998.

She filed for divorce from Paul Hogan in 2013. A few years after this, she mentioned that she and Hogan had grown apart in the years leading to the divorce and hardly shared any interests together. She also stated that she had been in Hogan’s shadow for far too long and wanted a different life.

Kozlowski is currently in a relationship with a Moroccan tour guide, Moulay Hafid Baba with whom she co-founded and operates a packaged tours business called Dream My Destiny in Morocco. She maintains that her divorce to Paul Hogan was amicable and they continue to have a friendly relationship.

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