Celebrity Biographies
Linda Manz
She made few films, but of recognized quality, which is why she became a popular face of the ‘indie’ scene at the end of the 70s. The actress Linda Manz died on August 14, 2020, at only 58 years of age, as a result of the lung cancer combined with pneumonia, in New York, his hometown.
Born on August 20, 1961, Linda Manz ‘s childhood was marked by the absence of her father, who left home when she was two years old. She debuted at the age of fifteen in Terrence Malick ‘s Days of Heaven , where she gave life to one of the protagonists, and narrator, young Linda, who is on the run from the police with her brother, Bill ( Richard Gere) , and his girlfriend, Abby. ( Brooke Adams ), after he has killed his foreman following an argument.
After this brilliant debut, Linda ManzShe played secondary roles in Boardwalk and in The Wanderers (the Bronx gangs) , both from 1979. Dennis Hopper offered her the leading role in the film directed by him Fallen from Heaven (1980), where she was the daughter of a convict and a drug addict, in a small town. In the 1980s, her career languished. In 1983 she starred in The Wayward Daughter, a film shot in West Germany, and in 1985 she appeared in The Snow Queen, an episode of the Fairy Tales series. After marrying Bobby Guthrie, cameraman, she retired from acting and had three children. Despite everything, she returned promptly for small roles in David Fincher ‘s The Game ., and Gummo , by Harmony Korine .