Linda Carroll Hamilton (born September 26, 1956) is an American movie actress.

Linda's first big break was in 1984, when she played the part of Sarah Connor in James Cameron's The Terminator. From 1987 to 1989 she came to fame as Catherine Chandler in TV's Beauty and the Beast. The show earned her nominations for an Emmy, Golden Globe, and People's Choice Award; she received a Saturn and a Romy Award.

Linda's real dad suffered from bipolar disorder, and though Linda was diagnosed early, too, she refused any drug therapy. All her life she has suffered from manic-depressive illness, a condition that propelled her to brilliance in the manic state and to depths of despair in the melancholic one. By the end of her 30s she gave in and since 1996 she is on anti-depressants to control her illness.

"Then at a certain point it became exhausting, and I said, 'I need help.' I believe a brief stint of Prozac saved my life. I'd gotten into such a place of mortal anxiety, but now I'm fine."


May 2003 she described her being like this: "Life has worn me down to a very real shape," she said. "I'm a fully realized person, one that is truly in the world with talents and flaws."

She's been great in everyting I've seen her in!


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