Linda Carroll Hamilton was born on September 26,1956 and is an American actress.
28 Facts About Linda Hamilton
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Linda Hamilton played Sarah Connor in the Terminator film series and Catherine Chandler in the television series Beauty and the Beast, for which she was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy Award.
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Linda Hamilton had a recurring role as Mary Elizabeth Bartowski in NBC's Chuck.
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Linda Hamilton's father died when she was five, and her mother later married a police chief.
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Linda Hamilton had an identical twin sister, Leslie Linda Hamilton Freas, one older sister and one younger brother.
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Linda Hamilton has said that she was raised in a very "boring" family, and "voraciously read books" during her spare time.
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Linda Hamilton went to Wicomico Junior High and Wicomico High School in Salisbury, with Leslie, her twin.
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Linda Hamilton studied for two years at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, before moving on to acting studies in New York City.
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Linda Hamilton has said that her acting professor at Washington College told her she had no hope of earning a living as an actress.
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Linda Hamilton starred in the CBS made-for-TV film Country Gold alongside Loni Anderson and Earl Holliman.
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Linda Hamilton co-starred with Peter Horton as the adult leads in Children of the Corn, based on the horror short story by Stephen King.
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Linda Hamilton then returned to television as a guest star in the mystery series Murder, Linda Hamilton Wrote, receiving favorable reviews.
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Linda Hamilton next starred opposite Ron Perlman in the television series Beauty and the Beast.
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Linda Hamilton left the series in 1989 and it ended in 1990.
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Linda Hamilton returned to the big screen with Jim Belushi in Mr Destiny and reprised her role as Sarah Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the sequel to The Terminator.
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Linda Hamilton underwent intense physical training to emphasize the character's transformation from the first film.
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Linda Hamilton received MTV Movie Awards for her role in the film for Best Female Performance and Most Desirable Female.
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Linda Hamilton reprised the character for the theme park attraction T2 3-D.
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Linda Hamilton returned to television in A Mother's Prayer playing a mother who lost her husband and is diagnosed with AIDS.
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That same year, Linda Hamilton filmed two motion pictures that were released one week apart in 1997: Shadow Conspiracy with Charlie Sheen and Dante's Peak with Pierce Brosnan.
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Linda Hamilton received a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for female performance in Dante's Peak.
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Linda Hamilton has since appeared on the television series Frasier and According to Jim and has done more TV movies, including On the Line, Robots Rising, Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Couples, Point Last Seen and The Color of Courage.
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Linda Hamilton appeared as a guest star in the Showtime cable television series Weeds as the marijuana supplier for the series' main character.
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Linda Hamilton subsequently appeared in a recurring role on the Syfy series Defiance, beginning in that show's second season.
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Linda Hamilton's first marriage, from 1982 to 1989, was to Bruce Abbott, who left her when she was pregnant with their son, born in 1989.
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Linda Hamilton stated it was because of the way she treated him during their marriage and made a public apology to him in 2004.
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Linda Hamilton has described herself politically as a Democrat, but she voted for Republican candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger, her Terminator co-star, in the 2003 California gubernatorial election after his campaign convinced her he was suitable for the job.
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Linda Hamilton discussed how she eventually received therapy and medication to manage the condition.