Harley Jane Kozak
Harley Jane Kozak (
January 28 1957) is an American
actress and
author. Kozak was born Susan Jane Kozak in
Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania. Kozak starred in movies such as
Parenthood,
When Harry Met Sally...,
Arachnophobia and the
soap operas
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
1987 and again in
1989, as former nun, Mary Duvall McCormick). She lives in
Topanga Canyon,
California.
Kozak has written two novels:
Dating Dead Men (2004) and
Dating Is Murder : A Novel (2005), both of which feature
greeting card designer and amateur
sleuth Wollie Shelley, a woman with very eccentric friends and family. Both are published by
Doubleday, a division of
Random House.
Dating Dead Men obtained an
Agatha Award for best first novel in 2004.
Kozak was originally chosen to play Karen Sammler in the TV show
Once and Again. She filmed the pilot, but after that she had to withdraw due to personal reasons. The role went to
Susanna Thompson.
*ISBN 0385510187 "Dating Dead Men"
*ISBN 0385510349 "Dating Is Murder : A Novel"
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