Comedy movies were extremely popular in the 1980s, and one of them shattered box office records in 1986. Crocodile Dundee was your favorite movie that year if you enjoyed action, crocodiles, and Australian accents. The film elevated Paul Hogan to the role of a starring man and gave up-and-coming actress Linda Kozlowski immediate recognition. It was based on Rod Ansell’s true story of survival in the Australian Northern Territory. Did Linda use her newly discovered fame to launch a successful acting career? Let’s explore what transpired after Kozlowski appeared in the world-beating movie.
Background info
Linda Kozlowski was born on January 7th, 1958 in Fairfield, Connecticut to Helen (Helena Parniawska) and Stanley (Stanislaw) Kozlowski. After graduating from high school at Andrew Warde High School, Linda continued her education at Julliard and earned a degree in drama there in 1981.
Linda’s acting career began off-Broadway in the How It All Began production that ran from 1981 to 1982. In 1984, she made the switch to regular Broadway and played Miss Forsythe in Death of a Salesman. Her first appearance on television was in a Nurse episode in 1982, but her film debut came in 1985 when she returned to the part of Miss Forsythe in the movie adaptation of Death of a Salesman.
Crocodile Dundee
When Linda played Sue Charlton in the humorous action-adventure movie Crocodile Dundee in 1985, she earned the role that would define her career. The story followed the title character, played by Paul Hogan, as he traveled with a reporter, played by Kozlowski, from Australia to New York. Kozlowski received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the film.
It was initially intended to be a low-budget movie that would appeal to both Australians and Americans, but it immediately became a smashing success at the box office, becoming Australia’s highest-grossing film of all time and its highest-grossing international release. It also claimed the title of second-highest grossing movie in the United States for 1986, falling just short of Top Gun.
What did she do after Crocodile Dundee?
What transpired for Linda next? A follow-up, of course. It’s hardly surprising that a sequel was released soon after the first due to its enormous popularity and favorable reviews. The leads from New York were brought back to Australia in Crocodile Dundee II in 1988, when Colombian drug lords had become a concern. The sequel had the biggest opening in the U.K. at the time even though it didn’t reach the same heights as the original one and ended up at number six on the list of highest-grossing movies in the U.S. Not bad all around.
Later, Linda appeared in the 1990 fantasy dramedy Almost an Angel with her then-husband Paul Hogan. She had a hectic schedule during the 1990s, making appearances in the criminal drama Backstreet Justice in 1993, the biographical drama Zorn in 1994, and the thriller The Neighbor in 1993.
In John Carpenter’s 1995 sci-fi horror movie Village of the Damned, Linda co-starred with Christopher Reeves and Kirstie Alley.
What is Linda Kozlowski doing now?
The third and last chapter of the film that first made Linda famous was where she made her last on-screen appearance. For the Los Angeles premiere of Crocodile Dundee in 2001, Linda and Paul returned. Unfortunately, the film was a failure, prompting both critics and viewers to question its purpose.
No matter how the public responded to the movie, it would be Linda’s final appearance on screen. Since then, Kozlowski hasn’t been in any movies; she cited the “schlocky films” she was getting cast in as a contributing factor. Fair enough, she wanted to raise her small boy as well.
What has she been doing in its place, then? Definitely nothing to do with acting. She doesn’t participate at conventions and has no cameo. You could check up her Instagram account to see what she’s up to, if you so desired. She continues to work; she and her partner manage Dream My Destiny, a company that assists in location scouting for filmmakers and offers excursions to common travelers.
Personal life
When Linda met her Crocodile Dundee co-star Paul Hogan, they fell in love on the set. While filming, the couple fell in love, which was somewhat scandalous because Paul was still married to his wife of more than 30 years at the time. They got married in 1990 after he got divorced from his first wife, and they lived in Australia before relocating to Los Angeles in the late 1990s. Chance, a son born in 1998, is the only child they have together. Paul and Linda’s divorce was finalized in July 2014 after Linda filed for divorce in October 2013.
Not long after the divorce, she started dating Moroccan tour guide Moulay Hafid Baba. The couple got to know one another through a common producer acquaintance who hired Baba to investigate locations for a project. Kozlowski divides her time between Los Angeles, where she travels to see her son, and Marrakesh (primarily in Morocco). Despite the absence of any official confirmation, there are rumors that the couple wed in 2017.
Her time as Sue Charlton was more than enough to provide her fame and wealth to last a lifetime, despite the fact that she has no plans to go back to Hollywood or act in any more movies. While she loves the following phase of her life, her fans can always go back and rewatch the franchise.
