![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: September 26, 1957 in Salisbury, MD Biography:The stepdaughter of the fire chief of Salisbury, MD, "Linda Hamilton" began her acting career with local children's theater groups. After college training and dramatic lessons conducted by former director "Nicholas Ray", "Hamilton" was cast in a handful of inexpensive film programs. She briefly costarred in the prime-time TV soap opera "Secrets of Midland Heights" (1980) which led to an equally short stint on the weekly series "King's Crossing" (1982). "Hamilton"'s stock in the film industry rose substantially when she was cast as Sarah Connor, the target for the homicidal intentions of futuristic android "Arnold Schwarzenegger" in "The Terminator" (1984). No shivering ingenue, the agile and athletic "Hamilton" proved a formidable foe for the forces of evil in both "The Terminator" and its sequel, "Terminator 2: Judgment Day", where at times she came off tougher than the "kinder, gentler" Arnold. From... Full Biography
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