Linda Hamilton

Linda Carroll Hamilton (born September 26, 1956, Salisbury, Maryland) is a Golden Globe Award-nominated American actress.

Family and youth

Her full name is Linda Carroll Hamilton. His mother is Barbara K. Holt and his father is doctor Carroll Stanford Hamilton. He lost his father in a traffic accident when he was five years old. He has a twin named Leslie Hamilton Gearren and two siblings named Ford Hamilton and Laura Hamilton.

Hamilton started his acting career in children's theater groups. He was educated at Wicomico Middle School and Wicomico High School. During his university education, he studied at Washington College and later moved to New York and attended various acting courses.

Career

After studying at Washington College for 2 years, Linda Hamilton went to New York and studied acting with Lee Strasberg. He attracted attention with his role in the TV series Secrets of Midland Heights in 1980. He got his first leading role in the movie with the movie TAG: The Assassination Game in 1982.

In 1984, he starred in the Terminator movie directed by James Cameron and accompanied Arnold Schwarzenegger and Michael Biehn.

In 1986, he starred in the movie Black Moon Rising alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Vaughn and Keenan Wynn.

She played the character of Catherine Chandler in the television series Beauty and the Beast, which aired between 1987 and 1989; The character of Vincent in the series was played by Ron Perlman.

In 1997, he starred in the movie Dante Volcano with Pierce Brosnan. In 2015, he starred in the movie A Sunday Horse alongside Nikki Reed and William Shatner.

personal life

Hamilton's marriages include:

1. Bruce Abbott: She married film actor Bruce Abbott on December 19, 1982; The couple divorced on December 28, 1989. He has a son named Dalton Abbott from this marriage (b. October 4, 1989).
2. James Cameron: She married director and screenwriter James Cameron on July 26, 1997; The couple divorced on December 16, 1999. From this marriage he has a daughter named Josephine Archer Cameron (b. February 15, 1993).

Awards

• Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
  • 1992 – Won Saturn Award Best Actress for Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
• Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
  • 1998 – Won Blockbuster Entertainment Award Favorite Actress—Action/Adventure for Dante's Peak (1997)
• CableACE Awards
  • 1995 – Won CableACE Actress in a Movie or Miniseries for A Mother's Prayer (1995) (TV)
• DVD Exclusive Awards
  • 2001 – Won Video Premiere Award Best Supporting Actress for: Skeletons in the Closet (2001)
• MTV Movie Awards
  • 1992 – Won MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
  • 1992 – Won MTV Movie Award Most Desirable Female

Filmography

• 1979 — Night-Flowers — Wafer
• 1982 — Tag: The Assassination Game — Susan Swayze
• 1984 — The Terminator — Sarah Connor
• 1984 — Children of the Corn — Vicky
• 1984 — The Stone Boy — Eva Crescent Moon Lady on Bus
• 1986 — King Kong Lives — Dr. Amy Franklin
• 1986 — Black Moon Rising — Nina
• 1987 — Beauty and the Beast — Catherine Chandler — TV series (1987-1989)
• 1990 — Mr. Destiny—Ellen Jane
• 1991 — Terminator 2: Judgment Day — Sarah Connor
• 1994 — Silent Fall — Karen Rainer
• 1995 — Separate Lives — Lauren Porter/Lena
• 1996 — T2 3-D: Battle Across Time — Sarah Connor — At Universal Studios, Orlando
• 1997 — Dante's Peak — Mayor Rachel Wando
• 1997 — Shadow Conspiracy — Amanda Givens
• 1998 — On the Line — Det. Jean Martin — TV movie
• 1998 — Point Last Seen — Rachel Harrison — TV movie
• 1999 — The Secret Life of Girls — Ruby Sanford
• 2000 — Skeletons in the Closet — Tina Conway
• 2000 — Sex & Mrs. X — Joanna Scott — TV movie
• 2002 — Silent Night — Elisabeth Vincken
• 2003 — Wholey Moses — Valerie — Short film
• 2004 — Jonah — June — Short film
• 2005 — Smile — Bridget
• 2005 — Missing in America — Kate
• 2005 — The Kid & I — Susan Mandeville
• 2006 — Thief — Roselyn Moore — TV series (guest star in 2 episodes)
• 2006 — Home by Christmas — Julie Bedford — TV movie
• 2007 — Broken — Karen
• 2009 — Waters Rising — Cory — in progress
• 2010 — Chuck — Mary Elizabeth Bartowski (Frost) — TV series
• 2019 — Terminator: Dark Fate — Sarah Connor

Linda Hamilton was born on September 26, 1956 in Salisbury, Maryland, USA.

Productions in which he took part

He took part in a total of 104 productions; 12 of the most well-known are listed.

• The Late Late Show with James Corden (2015)
• The View (1997)
• Saturday Night Live (1975) — Self - Host
• The Graham Norton Show (2007)
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) — Self - Guest
• Stranger Things (2016) — Dr. Kay
• Frasier (1993) — Claire (voice)
• Murder, She Wrote (1984) — Carol McDermott
• Late Night with David Letterman (1982)
• Weeds (2005) — Linda
• Chuck (2007) — Mary Elizabeth Bartowski
• Hill Street Blues (1981)

Production and imprint information was taken from TMDB.