Paul Hogan co-star Linda Kozlowski looks different at 68
Linda Kozlowski, 68, looks almost unrecognizable in new travel photos from a romantic getaway in Palma, Spain, with husband Moulay Hafid Babaa. The Crocodile Dundee star—once famous alongside Paul Hogan as blonde reporter Sue Charlton—now sports brunette hair and glowing skin after leaving Hollywood in 2001.
Fans who remember her as the polished New York journalist opposite Mick Dundee are doing a double take. The vacation snaps show a softer, brunette look that is a world away from the blonde image that defined her 1980s fame.
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Key Takeaways
- Linda Kozlowski, 68, was spotted looking strikingly different on a romantic trip to Palma, Spain, with husband Moulay Hafid Babaa.
- She starred opposite Paul Hogan as Sue Charlton in 1986’s Crocodile Dundee and its two sequels before retiring from acting in 2001.
- Kozlowski married Hogan in 1990; they share son Chance and divorced after more than two decades together.
- She met Moroccan tour guide Babaa in Marrakech in 2014, married him in 2017, and now splits time between California and Morocco.
- She has said she left Hollywood after growing disillusioned with low-quality roles and living in Hogan’s shadow.
Why does Linda Kozlowski look so different in the new photos?
According to HELLO! Magazine, Kozlowski looked almost unrecognizable while soaking up the Spanish sun in Palma with her husband. The biggest visual shift is her hair: the once-famous blonde now wears brunette locks, paired with glowing skin that reads more private traveler than red-carpet star.
In her Crocodile Dundee heyday, she was known for bright blonde hair and a high-gloss Hollywood smile. Decades later, the travel images show a calmer, low-key style that matches a life lived largely off-screen.
That contrast is exactly why the photos are circulating. Viewers are not reacting to a dramatic scandal so much as to how far her everyday look has moved from Sue Charlton’s 1986 screen image.
Who is Paul Hogan to Linda Kozlowski, and what happened after Crocodile Dundee?
Paul Hogan was Kozlowski’s co-star and, later, her husband. They met while making Crocodile Dundee, the 1986 adventure-comedy that made Hogan a global star as Mick Dundee and cast Kozlowski as reporter Sue Charlton.
Hogan co-wrote and starred in the film, earning a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy and an Oscar nomination for screenwriting. Kozlowski, a Juilliard graduate with Broadway credits, became a movie star through the franchise and returned as Sue in both sequels.
They married in 1990 and welcomed a son, Chance. HELLO! reports they parted ways for good in 2014 after roughly 24 years together. Kozlowski told the Sydney Morning Herald they “just naturally grew apart,” with “no bad blood.”
“One of our problems was we really had nothing in common and, over time, that happens to a lot of people,” she explained. Hogan later told The Daily Telegraph they were “opposites” who were attracted for a long time, calling most of the marriage “20 wonderful years.”
He also pushed back on the idea of a failed romance: “How can you ‘fail’ after a quarter of a century? Failed marriages are when two people stay together even though they have long ago lost interest.”
Where is Linda Kozlowski now, and why did she leave Hollywood?
Kozlowski stepped away from the spotlight in 2001 after growing disillusioned with the entertainment industry. She told Scripps Howard News Service that “straight-to-video schlocky films” were giving her an ulcer because she felt she was the only person on set who cared about the work.
“I’d say, ‘Well, this scene doesn’t make sense.’ [They would say,] ‘Aw, so what, just say the lines.’ [And] I thought, ‘This isn’t fun anymore. This is not why I studied, it’s not what I love,’” she recalled. Between that frustration and her biological clock, she decided to walk away.
She has said she does not want to return to the old grind of unwanted auditions, though she left the door slightly open if the right project appeared “out of the blue.”
After her split from Hogan, she found love again with Moulay Hafid Babaa, a Moroccan tour guide she met while visiting Marrakech in 2014. They married in 2017. She has said she feels like a new person with him and now divides her time between California and Morocco.
“Paul is very famous, and I lived for a long time in his shadow,” she told New Idea. “I feel good now to be out on my own and be doing my own things.” That independence is the deeper story behind the Palma getaway photos: not just a new hair color, but a long exit from fame into a quieter second act.
What does the Crocodile Dundee then-and-now fascination say about the cast?
Interest in Kozlowski’s updated look sits inside a wider nostalgia wave for the Dundee cast. The 1986 film became one of the decade’s biggest box-office surprises, and fans still track where its stars went next.
Hogan never fully matched Dundee’s cultural peak in later projects such as Lightning Jack and Almost an Angel. Kozlowski’s career slowed by the time of the final sequel, and she eventually left acting altogether.
Their on-screen chemistry became off-screen history, then a cordial co-parenting chapter after divorce. Seeing her in Spain with a new husband underlines how completely the Sue-and-Mick era has moved into memory—even as Paul Hogan’s name still anchors every then-and-now search.
The travel photos matter because they close a loop fans keep reopening: what happened to the woman who helped make an Australian bush comedy a worldwide hit? The answer, in 2026, is a brunette traveler on holiday with her husband—far from Hollywood, and finally living on her own terms.