Personal Info
Birth date
1961-08-20 (63 Years)
Day of death
2020-08-14
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
New York, New York, U.S.A.
Also known as
-Linda Manz
Biography
Linda Manz made her feature film debut at age 15 in Terrence Malick's period drama Days of Heaven (1978), playing an adolescent girl growing up in rural Texas in 1916. She followed this with a supporting role in The Wanderers (1979). Manz earned critical acclaim for her portrayal of a troubled teenage girl from a dysfunctional family in Dennis Hopper's drama film Out of the Blue (1980). 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. She returned to acting in 1997 with small roles in Harmony Korine's film Gummo and David Fincher's thriller The Game. She developed a strong cult following than began in the 1990s.
Filmography
Faerie Tale Theatre
8.1
Overview:
A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.The Game
7.565
Overview:
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.Gummo
6.6
Overview:
Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.The Wanderers
7
Overview:
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’Days of Heaven
7.5
Overview:
In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.King of the Gypsies
5.6
Overview:
Zharko, leader of the Romanis in NYC, passes his position of leadership on to his unwilling grandson, Dave, leading to infighting between Dave and his father.Out of the Blue
6.913
Overview:
A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.Orphan Train
5.8
Overview:
A dedicated social worker organizes a train trip for a group of slum orphans in 1894, taking them from New York City to the Midwest in search of new families and new lives.Buddy Boy
4.75
Overview:
An introvert relieves the tedium of caring for his invalid mother by spying on his neighbor.Mir reicht's - ich steig aus
NYR
Overview:
The intelligent Linda, daughter of Joseph and Jane, takes a critical view of her parents' marriage. Her father's dominant behavior and her mother's indifference become so unbearable to her that she decides to run away. She manages to persuade Jane to accompany her.Boardwalk
6.2
Overview:
In this drama, David Rosen and his wife Becky have lived in the same Coney Island neighborhood for nearly all their married life. But the area is not what it used to be, and a gang leader named Strut has decided to make Coney Island his new turf. Strut begins shaking down the merchants in the area, demanding payment for "protection" and using violence to deal with anyone who gets in his way. David refuses to give Strut protection money for the restaurant he owns, and as a result his diner is soon firebombed, while many of his neighbors are attacked and his synagogue is desecrated.Acting
2016Along for the Ride as Self
2000Buddy Boy as (uncredited)
1997Gummo as Solomon's Mother
1997The Game as Christine's Roomate Amy
1983Mir reicht's - ich steig aus as Linda
1982Faerie Tale Theatre (1 Episode) as Robber Girl
1981Out of the Blue as Cebe
1981Longshot as Maxine Gripp
1979Orphan Train as Sarah
1979Boardwalk as Girl Satan
1979The Wanderers as Peewee
1978King of the Gypsies as (uncredited)
1978Days of Heaven as Linda