Linda Hamilton

Linda Hamilton

Linda Carroll Hamilton is an American actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Sarah Connor in the Terminator film series and Catherine Chandler in the television series Beauty and the Beast. She also starred as Vicky Baxter in the horror film Children of the Corn, Doctor Amy Franklin in the monster film King Kong Lives, and Mayor Rachel Wando in the disaster thriller film Dante’s Peak.

About Linda Hamilton in brief

Summary Linda HamiltonLinda Carroll Hamilton is an American actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Sarah Connor in the Terminator film series and Catherine Chandler in the television series Beauty and the Beast. She also starred as Vicky Baxter in the horror film Children of the Corn, Doctor Amy Franklin in the monster film King Kong Lives, and Mayor Rachel Wando in the disaster thriller film Dante’s Peak. Hamilton had a recurring role as Mary Elizabeth Bartowski on NBC’s Chuck. Hamilton’s father, Carroll Stanford Hamilton, a physician, died when she was five, and her mother later married a police chief. Hamilton has said that she was raised in a very ‘boring’ family, and \”voraciously read books\” during her spare time.

She studied for two years at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, before moving on to acting studies in New York City. Her big-screen debut was in the thriller TAG: The Assassination Game and as a result, she was listed as one of twelve \”Promising New Actors of 1982\” in John Willis’ Screen World, Vol. 34. Hamilton returned to the big screen with Michael Caine in Mr. Destiny and with Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the sequel to The Terminator. In 2009, she returned as Sarah Connor for the theme park attraction T2 3-D. In 2010, she joined the cast of Chuck in the recurring role of MaryElizabeth Bartowski, a CIA agent and long-missing mother.