Lindsay Jean Wagner (born June 22, 1949) is an Emmy Award winning actress.




[edit] Early life
Wagner was born in Los Angeles, California. When she was seven years old, her parents divorced and her mother moved with her to the northeast Los Angeles neighborhood of Eagle Rock, near Pasadena. Wagner might have been able to begin her acting career as a teenager. She was offered a lead role in a TV series at age 13, but was advised by family friend James Best to wait until she was older.

Another move with her mother and stepfather (Ted Ball) brought her to Portland, Oregon where she attended David Douglas High School and appeared in a number of school plays. She studied at the University of Oregon, overcoming dyslexia to become a successful student.


[edit] Career
She worked as a model in Los Angeles and gained some television experience by appearing as a hostess in Playboy After Dark. However, it wasn't until she contacted a friend at Universal Studios and was cast for a small part in Marcus Welby, M.D. that her acting career took off. Her appearances helped her win roles in the films Two People and as the girlfriend of a Harvard Law School student in The Paper Chase.

Wagner then played Jaime Sommers, a former tennis pro who was the childhood sweetheart of The Six Million Dollar Man. Jaime was critically injured in a skydiving accident, and at the urging of Steve Austin, was equipped with bionic limbs. But Jaime's body rejected the bionics, and she died.

This was intended to be Wagner's last role under her Universal contract, but public response was so overwhelming that Jaime was brought back to life with her own spin-off series, The Bionic Woman. This role earned her an Emmy Award in 1977. Lik