Paul Hogan

Paul Hogan

Paul Hogan, AM is an Australian actor, comedian, writer and television presenter. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and won the Golden Globe Award for his performance as outback adventurer Michael ‘Crocodile’ Dundee in Crocodile Dundee. He married American actress Linda Kozlowski, after meeting her on the set of Crocodiles Dundee, and they have two children. He currently lives in Sydney with his wife and two children, who live in Sydney and Melbourne.

About Paul Hogan in brief

Summary Paul HoganPaul Hogan, AM is an Australian actor, comedian, writer and television presenter. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and won the Golden Globe Award for his performance as outback adventurer Michael ‘Crocodile’ Dundee in Crocodile Dundee. He married American actress Linda Kozlowski, after meeting her on the set of Crocodiles Dundee, and they have two children. At the start of his career, Paul Hogan claimed he was born in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, to appear more interesting. He moved to Granville in Western Sydney at a young age and worked as a rigger on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Hogan’s first public appearance was on Australian television, the Nine Network’s amateur talent program New Faces in 1971. He followed this with his own comedy sketch program The Paul Hogan Show, which he produced and wrote, and in which he played characters with Cornell and Delvene Delaney. In the early 1980s, Hogan filmed a series of television ads promoting the Australian tourism industry, which aired in the United States. In 1985, Hogan appeared as an Australian World War I ‘digger’ named Pat Cleary in the mini-series Anzacs. He also co-hosted the Goldie Hawn Awards with Chevy Chase and Chevy Chase in 1987.

He won the BAFTAs in 1987, and was also nominated for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy at the Academy Awards in 1987 and Best Actor at the Golden Globes in 1988. His breakout role was that of Mick in the film Crocodil Dundee which was a massive critical and commercial success in many countries, and won him the Best Actor Award for the film. He has also appeared in a number of television shows, including The X-Files, The Simpsons and The Simpsons Movie. He is also the host of the Australian version of The Voice, which airs on ABC1 on Sundays at 8.30pm. He currently lives in Sydney with his wife and two children, who live in Sydney and Melbourne, and has a son and a daughter, who lives in Melbourne. He lives in a suburb of Sydney called Waverly, NSW, with his husband and two daughters. He and his wife have three children, a daughter and a son-in-law, both of whom live in New Zealand. Hogan is married to American actress and former Miss Universe contestant, Linda Kozlowsk, who is also a former Miss Australia and Miss Universe. He had two children with actress and TV presenter, Melissa Bowerman, who died in a car crash in 2010. He now has a daughter with his second wife, Kathleen.