Linda Manz

Linda Manz

Born: August 20, 1961
Died: August 14, 2020
in New York, New York, U.S.A.
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.

Movies for Linda Manz...

Along for the Ride
Title: Along for the Ride
Character: Self
Released: November 3, 2016
Type: Movie
A documentary chronicling the filmmaking career of Dennis Hopper.
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Buddy Boy
Title: Buddy Boy
Character: (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 2000
Type: Movie
An introvert relieves the tedium of caring for his invalid mother by spying on his neighbor.
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Gummo
Title: Gummo
Character: Solomon's Mother
Released: October 17, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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The Game
Title: The Game
Character: Christine's Roomate Amy
Released: September 12, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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Mir reicht's - ich steig aus
Title: Mir reicht's - ich steig aus
Character: Linda
Released: January 28, 1983
Type: Movie
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Title: Faerie Tale Theatre
Character: Robber Girl
Released: September 11, 1982
Type: TV
A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.
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Out of the Blue
Title: Out of the Blue
Character: Cebe
Released: April 29, 1981
Type: Movie
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.
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Longshot
Title: Longshot
Character: Maxine Gripp
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
When one of the foosball team members is injured, a 14-year-old girl takes the champion's place.
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Orphan Train
Title: Orphan Train
Character: Sarah
Released: December 22, 1979
Type: Movie
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.
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Boardwalk
Title: Boardwalk
Character: Girl Satan
Released: November 14, 1979
Type: Movie
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.
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The Wanderers
Title: The Wanderers
Character: Peewee
Released: July 13, 1979
Type: Movie
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.’
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King of the Gypsies
Title: King of the Gypsies
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1978
Type: Movie
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.
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Days of Heaven
Title: Days of Heaven
Character: Linda
Released: September 13, 1978
Type: Movie
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.