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HARLEY JANE KOZAK
as "Gillian Apple"

Harley Jane Kozak was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to Joseph and Dorothy Kozak, an attorney and a music teacher. When Harley' s father passed away a year later, her mother packed up Harley, her four older brothers and three older sisters and moved to North Dakota and then on to Lincoln, Nebraska, where she would teach at the University for the next 20 years.

Harley first appeared on-stage at age five in a college opera production of "Dido and Aeneas," and broke gender barriers in the fourth grade by playing the title character in "Benjamin Franklin." By the fifth grade, she discovered the value of nepotism in show business when she became a recurring character on the educational television show, "Music With Mrs. Kozak."

As a junior in high school, she was tap dancing in the Nebraska Repertory Theater. The following summer she supported herself full-time with a $55-a-week paycheck from "The Legend of Daniel Boone," playing Indian maiden number 2.

At age 19, having done more than 30 plays, Harley ended up on New York' s Lower East Side. She was accepted into the professional acting training program at NYU' s School of the Arts (now known as Tisch School of the Arts). Completing the program three years later, Harley was cast in the feature film, "The House on Sorority Row," and said good-bye to a decade of waitressing.

She moved to southern California after appearing on the soap opera, "Texas." Subsequently, she spent two years on "Guiding Light" and one year on "Santa Barbara" (where she met her end being crushed to death by a giant neon letter "C").

Harley' s numerous feature film credits include "Parenthood," "Arachnophobia" and "The Favor." Among her television appearances in primetime series are "Knightwatch" and "Harts of the West," as well as ABC' s "Bringing Up Jack" and "Charlie Grace." Television movie credits include "So Proudly We Hail," "Unforgivable," "The Android Affair," "A Friend' s Betrayal," ABC' s "The Amy Fisher Story" and a lead in the "Titanic" miniseries.

Harley lives in Los Angeles with her cats, April and Eddie. When not acting, she dedicates her life to friendship, novel writing, her enormous extended family, volunteer work, aerobic activity, political activism and her fiance, Gregory.