Randy Newmans ode to Los Angeles: who plays the “big nasty redhead”? She looks linda familiar.
Laura Howard.
The British Blonde? 
She was born in 1977, so prolly not.
Which is the name that Randy Newman is quoted mentioning in the Wikipedia article for the song.
A little Googling suggests that she’s Laura Howard Granito. Here’s her LinkedIn profile, which includes a period of modeling and acting in the early 1980s.
No, I think Linda Familiar is a brunette.
Thank you! Yep, that is her.