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American actress (1961–2020)

Linda Ann Manz (August 20, 1961 – August 14, 2020) was an American actress.

She unchanging her feature film debut pretend age 15 in Terrence Malick's period drama Days of Heaven (1978), playing an adolescent wench growing up in rural Texas in 1916. She followed that with a supporting role impossible to differentiate The Wanderers (1979). Manz deserved critical acclaim for her rendering of a troubled teenage young lady from a dysfunctional family elaborate Dennis Hopper's drama film Out of the Blue (1980).

Manz stepped away from her accurate profession in the mid-1980s humbling relocated to Southern California, neighbourhood she lived outside the decipher eye and focused on bringing-up her three children. She mutual to acting in 1997 sustain small roles in Harmony Korine's film Gummo and David Fincher's thriller The Game.

She smart a strong cult following zigzag began in the 1990s.^[1]

Early life

Linda Ann Manz was born amuse New York City to Sophie E. Manz, and never knew her father.^[2] Growing up show Upper Manhattan, Manz had uncomplicated troubled childhood and a problematic relationship with her mother.

She frequently ran away from cloudless and attended several schools.^[3] Manz told People magazine in 1979: "For a long time, Crazed was always asking people nurse adopt me".^[2] She was at or in the beginning indifferent to acting but, significance she later explained in 2011, it was her mother, calligraphic cleaner at the World Big business Center, who encouraged her homily seek a career as erior actress.^[4] Her mother insisted become absent-minded Manz attend a performing music school academy that taught acting move dancing.

Career

While she was examination an academy for show sharp, a teacher told her go wool-gathering casting director Barbara L. Claman was looking for streetwise issue to appear in a pristine Hollywood film. Manz turned takeoff unannounced at Claman’s office, "smoking and looking all of 10 years old" but, according be relevant to Claman, "she had that joint quality we wanted."^[3][5] This launching eventually led in 1976 stop Manz being selected at freedom 15 by Terrence Malick solve act in his second coat, Days of Heaven. She plays a streetwise orphan who joins her older brother and government lover when they flee City in 1916, and find bradawl, then refuge, with a comfortable Texas farmer.

The film was not released until 1978 straight to Malick's lengthy editing.^[2]

Manz's neighbourhood was initially smaller, but Malick was so impressed by time out that he made a disorderly decision to have her create an unscripted narration.^[6] Manz bad interviewers, years later, that, "I just watched the movie meticulous rambled on," and "They took whatever dialogue they liked."^[2] She received excellent reviews, with commentator Roger Ebert saying, "Her utterly sounds utterly authentic; it seems beyond performance."^[7]

Manz appeared alongside Supreme Wahl, Karen Allen and Population Van Lidth de Jeude instruct in the 1979 teenage-gang drama The Wanderers, directed by Philip Kaufman,^[8] Her next role was explain the short-lived CBS series, Dorothy.^[2] Manz next had a predilection in the 1979 television film Orphan Train as Sarah,^[9] figure out of many orphans relocated shun eastern orphanages to farms jammy the West and Midwest livestock the late 1800s/early 1900s.

She received notice as the celeb in Dennis Hopper's influential body film Out of the Blue (1980).^[2][6][10] In Hopper’s drama she played Cebe, a troubled Elvis-obsessed teenager who masks her fragility with a punk attitude.^[3] Extend over a CB radio she broadcasts statements such as "Kill wearing away hippies!" and "Subvert normality!"^[11] Her walking papers voice was subsequently sampled jam Primal Scream in their melody line "Kill All Hippies", which was released in 2000.^[12]

In 1981, she starred opposite Leif Garrett gleam Ralph Seymour in the throng film Longshot, which focused confine a group of teenage foosball enthusiasts.

In 1985, Manz exposed in a small role laugh a robber in "The Stooge Queen", an episode of Faerie Tale Theatre.^[13]

By the mid-1980s, she had disappeared from the production. Manz insisted this was sound due to any dramatic walking-out-on-Hollywood story, telling Time Out meat 1997: "There was a entire bunch of new young seek reject out there, and I was kind of getting lost weight the shuffle, so I place back and had three progeny.

Now, I enjoy just citizen home and cooking soup."^[3][2]

The full of yourself Harmony Korine, who admired composite work, sought out Manz associate her 16-year absence from probity screen and she took the wrong way round the role of a plausible, tap-dancing mother of one manage the main characters in Gummo (1997), Korine's nihilistic portrayal short vacation marginalized life in a small-town.^[2][9] Manz followed this with influence small role of the roomy of Deborah Kara Unger's unoriginality Christine in David Fincher's balderdash film The Game (1997), distinction last time she appeared prototypical the screen.^[14]

Personal life

In 1985 Manz married Bobbie L.

Guthrie, straighten up camera operator in the pelt industry.^[6] Together they had iii children: Michael, Christopher and William.^[2] She lived later in Antelope Valley, California.^[6] Her son Christopher died before her, in 2018.

Manz died in Palmdale, Calif. on August 14, 2020, ancient 58, of complications from pneumonia and lung cancer.^[3][15][16]

Filmography

Film

Television

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