1. Linda Manz made her feature film debut at age 15 in Terrence Malick's period drama Days of Heaven, playing an adolescent girl growing up in rural Texas in 1916.
18 Facts About Linda Manz
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Linda Manz followed this with a supporting role in The Wanderers.
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Linda Manz stepped away from her acting profession in the mid-1980s and relocated to Southern California, where she lived outside the public eye and focused on raising her three children.
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Linda Manz returned to acting in 1997 with small roles in Harmony Korine's film Gummo and David Fincher's thriller The Game.
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Linda Manz developed a strong cult following that began in the 1990s.
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Linda Ann Manz was born in New York City to Sophie E Manz, and never knew her father.
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Linda Manz frequently ran away from home and attended several schools.
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Linda Manz told People magazine in 1979: "For a long time, I was always asking people to adopt me".
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Linda Manz was initially indifferent to acting but, as she later explained in 2011, it was her mother, a cleaner at the World Trade Center, who encouraged her to seek a career as an actress.
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Linda Manz's mother insisted that Manz attend a performing arts academy that taught acting and dancing.
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Linda Manz plays a streetwise orphan who joins her older brother and his lover when they flee Chicago in 1916, and find work, then refuge, with a wealthy Texas farmer.
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Linda Manz's part was initially smaller, but Malick was so impressed by her that he made a last-minute decision to have her improvise an unscripted narration.
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Linda Manz appeared alongside Ken Wahl, Karen Allen and Erland Van Lidth de Jeude in the 1979 teenage-gang drama The Wanderers, directed by Philip Kaufman, Her next role was in the short-lived CBS series Dorothy.
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Linda Manz received notice as the lead in Dennis Hopper's influential cult film Out of the Blue.
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In 1985, Linda Manz appeared in a small role as a robber in "The Snow Queen", an episode of Faerie Tale Theatre.
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Linda Manz followed this with the small role of the roommate of Deborah Kara Unger's character Christine in David Fincher's thriller film The Game, the last time she appeared on the screen.
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In 1985 Manz married Bobbie L Guthrie, a camera operator in the film industry.
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Linda Manz died in Palmdale, California on August 14,2020, aged 58, of complications from pneumonia and lung cancer.