Linda Hamilton
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| Shaggy, edgy leading lady who has created a niche for herself in Hollywood movies, playing characters that endure in spite of un- usual hardships-most notably Arnold Schwarzenegger, whom she battled in The Terminator. Hamilton began her career as a child actress, working in local Maryland productions before moving on to the Strasberg Institute in New York, where she studied with director Nicholas Ray. After an appearance on the soap opera "Search for Tomorrow," Hamilton con cluded that Hollywood was where she needed to be to further her career. She landed movie-of-the-week roles in such fare as Secrets of a Mother and Daughter (1983) and Club Med (1986) before earning a starring part in a modestly budgeted sci-fi actioner called The Terminator in 1984. That picture's surprise success landed Hamilton in other films of the scifi/horror genre, including Children of the Corn (1984), Black Moon Rising and King Kong Lives (both 1986), and on the popular TV series "Beauty and the Beast" (1987-90) which was her best-known work prior to release of the 1991 Terminator sequel, Terminator 2: Judgment Day In 1994 she costarred in Silent Fall. |