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Harley Jane Kozak (born January 28, 1957) is an American actress and author. Kozak was born Susan Jane Kozak in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Dorothy (née Taraldsen), a university music teacher, and Joseph Aloysius Kozak, an attorney. She has seven siblings: brothers John, Joseph, Peter and Andrew and sisters Dorothy, Mary and Ann. Harley is the youngest of them. Their father died when Harley was a year old. She was raised in Nebraska and attended New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 1980. In her early 20s she changed... MORE

Harley Jane Kozak (born January 28, 1957) is an American actress and author. Kozak was born Susan Jane Kozak in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Dorothy (née Taraldsen), a university music teacher, and Joseph Aloysius Kozak, an attorney. She has seven siblings: brothers John, Joseph, Peter and Andrew and sisters Dorothy, Mary and Ann. Harley is the youngest of them. Their father died when Harley was a year old. She was raised in Nebraska and attended New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 1980. In her early 20s she changed her name from Susan to Harley after the motorcycle. Kozak starred in movies such asThe Favor, Parenthood, Arachnophobia, All I Want for Christmas and the soap operas Texas (first as a day player in October 1981, and from November 1981 to December 1982 as Brette Wheeler), Guiding Light (from 1983 to 1985 and a one day voice over in February 1990, as both Annabelle Sims Reardon and Annabelle's deceased mother, in 1983 flashbacks, Annie Sims) and Santa Barbara (from 1985 to 1986 and again in 1989, as former nun, Mary Duvall McCormick). In Santa Barbara her character died in an accident where a giant LESS