1. Theresa Saldana was an American actress, activist, and writer.
11 Facts About Theresa Saldana
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Theresa Saldana is known for her role as Rachel Scali, the wife of Police Commissioner Tony Scali, in the 1990s television series The Commish, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, in 1994.
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Theresa Saldana was known for raising public awareness of the crime of stalking after surviving a knife attack by an obsessed fan at her home in 1982.
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On March 15,1982, Theresa Saldana was stalked by Arthur Richard Jackson, a 46-year-old drifter from Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Jackson became obsessed with Theresa Saldana after seeing her in the 1980 films Defiance and Raging Bull.
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Theresa Saldana hired a private investigator who obtained the unlisted phone number of Saldana's mother.
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Theresa Saldana's attack was so fierce that the blade bent.
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Theresa Saldana relived the incident in the television film Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story and again in an episode of Hunter.
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Theresa Saldana was then extradited to the United Kingdom in 1996 to be tried for a 1966 robbery and murder.
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Jackson's method of finding and approaching Theresa Saldana inspired stalker Robert John Bardo to hire a private investigator to contact Rebecca Schaeffer, a young TV sitcom star whom he subsequently murdered, in West Hollywood, on July 18,1989.
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Theresa Saldana died on June 6,2016, at age 61, after being hospitalized with pneumonia at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.