Linda Hamilton

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Biography

Recent Role:
Mary Bartowski on Chuck
Gender:
Female
Born:
9-26-1956
Birthplace:
Salisbury, Maryland, USA
Birth Name:
Linda Carroll Hamilton
AKA:
Linda Carroll Hamilton
Linda was born in Salisbury, Maryland in 1956. Her father was a doctor, and he was killed in a car accident. She has an identical twin sister Leslie Hamilton Gearren, and another sister Laura and a brother, John.

After attending Wicomico High School, Linda studied for two years at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, before moving on to acting studies in New York. Here, she attended acting workshops given by Lee Strasberg. She started working in TV, with a role in Beauty and the Beast, but she became internationally famous for her performance as Sarah Connor in

More Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day.

Linda was married to Bruce Abbott from December 19, 1982 to 1989; they have one son, Dalton Bruce (b. October 4, 1989). Her second husband was the director James Cameron from July 26, 1997 to 1999; they have one daughter, Josephine Archer (b. February 15, 1993).

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    Linda Hamilton is filming a new movie calle "Refuge" It's an independent film written and directed by Mark Medoff (a sucessful playwrite, who wrote Children of a Lesser God). There's a nice little website for the film, with blog entries by the director and some of the actors as filmingMore progresses. From the comments posted on the blog, it looks like everyone involved is doing good work and having a great time. Looks like it could turn out to be an excellent film. The movie website is www.refugethemovie.com

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    10 Perfect
    A very versatile actress who can play any role given her in a very believable manner. hide show

    She was totally believable in Terminator as the waitress who didn't really understand how she was chosen to be the mother of the man who would save the world. Then in Terminator Two she had totally accepted her role and rose to the challenge of keeping hinm safe. In Beauty and the Beast, my favorite role of hers even after more than 20 years. Her role as Catherine Chandler is still bringing more and more fans to the show. My very favorite actress. I have all three seasons of Beauty and the Beast on DVD and I watch the episodes continually with the exception of season three. Once Miss Hamilton left the show, the romance was gone and so were most of the fans.

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    Fabulous actress across multiple genres... Beauty and the Beast, Terminator, and Mr. Destiny may be some of the more know roles but there are many more that reflect her range. hide show

    Fabulous actress across multiple genres... Beauty and the Beast, Terminator, Mr. Destiny, and Dante's Peak may be some of the more know roles but there are many more that reflect her range. Add to these Black Moon Rising, Silent Fall, Separate Lives, Shadow Conspiracy, Skeletons in the Closet, Whollt Moses, Jonah, Smile, Missing in America, The Kid and I, Broken, In Your Dreams, The Line, and the upcoming Waters rising. There's also talks that she may do voice over work in the upcoming Terminator Salvation along with original Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger - really looking forward to that come this May.

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    The roles and performances those I have appreciated the most from her were first of all in "beauty and the beast",of course.And also my second favorite performance from her was in the movie Mr Destiny.In that movie she was really terrific and very funny. hide show

    She played in a few movies and tv series but the roles those have made her known the most were certainly Catherine Chandler in the Tv serie "Beauty and the Beast"(1987-89) and Sarah O'Connor in the movies Terminator I (1984)and Terminator II(1991).She played also in some movies like Club Med(1986) and Mr.Destiny(1990).She is really a very talented artist who can play different types of character so we can really say she is a very versatile artist.Many things have been said and written about her personnal life but I really don't care about them.All that matters to me is what Hamilton has performed on the screen.And her acting performances have always been at least very good and even sometimes really great.

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    I really only know Linda Hamilton from her role in the "Terminator" movies. In those movies, she played the really cool, tough-nosed female who never took no for an answer.

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    I really only know Linda Hamilton from her role in the "Terminator" movies. In those movies, she played the really cool, tough-nosed female who never took no for an answer.

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