Biography
Linda Hamilton (born September 26, 1956) is an American actress, best known for role as Sarah Connor in The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day; and for her television work as Catherine Chandler in the television series Beauty and the Beast, for which she was nominated for two Golden Globes and an Emmy. She also had a recurring role in the comedy television series Weeds and Chuck.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Osiris
2025
as Anya
Special Forces commandos on a mission are abducted mid-operation by a mysterious spacecraft. Upon waking aboard, they find themselves prey to a relent...

Easy Does It
2020
as King George
When best friends, Jack and Scottie, get a once in a lifetime shot at hidden loot, they take off on a cross-country adventure turned crime spree. With...

Terminator: Dark Fate
2019
as Sarah Connor
Decades after Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to sav...

Goblin Boy News
2018
as Sarah Connor (archive footage)
A low budget news show is interrupted by the apocalypse.

Curvature
2017
as Florence
Helen tries to cope with the recent death of her husband, a scientist who killed himself right when he was on the verge of successfully completing the...

Shoot Me Nicely
2017
as Layla
When photographer Sean Wheeler inadvertently exposes a conservative talk show host's "little" secret, his already complicated life gets unhinged.

A Sunday Horse
2016
as Mrs. Walden
After a near-fatal accident, on a horse the experts thought was nothing special, a determined rider from the wrong side of the tracks defies all the o...

Bermuda Tentacles
2014
as Admiral Hansen
After Air Force One goes down during a storm over the Bermuda Triangle, the United States Navy is dispatched to find the escape pod holding the Presid...

Bad Behavior
2013
as Margaret
Trapped overnight by an unknown assailant, a babysitter struggles to stay safe. As the hours tick by, she realizes that the greatest threat might be f...

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between ma...

DC Showcase Original Shorts Collection
2010
as Madame Lorraine (segment "Jonah Hex") (voice)
An anthology of DC Showcase stories consisting of a new Superman/Shazam feature and extended versions of older shorts.

DC Showcase: Jonah Hex
2010
as Madame Lorraine (voice)
When a ruthless brothel madame murders Jonah Hex's current quarry, the disfigured bounty hunter plans to make her pay.

Refuge
2010
as Amelia Philips
Amelia is on the run in the family RV, with husband Jack's body in the back and hostage Darryl at the wheel. Romance blossoms as Jack decomposes.

Holy Water
2009
as Cory Williams
The village of Kilcoulins Leap was once a thriving spa town, and was home to a famous Holy Well, but now offers little by way of employment for its pe...

Terminator Salvation
2009
as Sarah Connor (voice) (uncredited)
All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But whe...

In Your Dreams
2009
as Georgie
Albert Ross was the most ambitious little boy in the world until an 11 year old girl broke his heart. Now he's grown up to be an embittered dentist, h...

A Call to Arms
2009
as Self (voice)
A documentary which traces the controversial Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program (AVIP) in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Broken
2007
as Karen
A waitress confronts all the wrong turns she has made in her short life and ultimately ends up facing the biggest wrong turn of all: her dangerous ex-...

Home by Christmas
2006
as Julie Bedford
Julia Bedford is a homemaker who's left with next to nothing after a divorce. When Julia finds herself homeless, she begins her comeback and discovers...

The Kid & I
2005
as Susan Mandeville
Aaron Roman is a teenager with cerebral palsy who dreams of starring in a big-time action movie. When his father grants Aaron his wish for his eightee...

Smile
2005
as Bridgette
Introduced to a volunteer opportunity with the Doctor's Gift Program, Katie (Mika Boorem) signs up for a trip to China, where she meets Lin (Yi Ding),...

Missing in America
2005
as Kate
A haunted Vietnam veteran, living in exile in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, is faced with a life-changing decision after he is visited by a fo...
Harvesting Horror: Children of the Corn
2004
as (archival footage)
This documentary is featured on the Divimax Special Edition DVD for Children of the Corn, released in 2004.

Silent Night
2002
as Elisabeth Vincken
Fact-based World War II story set on Christmas Eve, 1944, finds a German Mother and her son seeking refuge in a cabin on the war front. When she is in...

Skeletons in the Closet
2001
as Tina
A father suspects his son to be a murderer...or is he just paranoid and trying to cover up his own past which involves his wife being killed in a fire...

Other Voices: Creating 'The Terminator'
2001
as Self
Many cast and crew interviews cue us in on the making of the film The Terminator (1984). From James Cameron's first concept to casting to practical ef...

Bailey's Mistake
2001
as Liz Donovan
"Bailey's Mistake" is the name of a cold, dreary island that a bitter widow finds herself stuck on. Seems Liz Donovan got cut out of her husband's wil...

A Girl Thing
2001
as Rachel Logan
A Girl Thing is a mini-series that revolves around a New York city street, a coffee house and a shrinks office. Dr. Beth Noonan is the therapist to on...

Sex & Mrs. X
2000
as Joanna Scott
Joanna is a woman secure in the knowledge of who she is: a perfect wife, a successful magazine journalist and a woman who's just celebrated her 10th w...

The Secret Life of Girls
1999
as Ruby Sanford
15-year-old Natalie, confused to begin with, finds out about her father's affair with one of his students. Refusing to simply stand by and watch her f...
The Color of Courage
1999
as Anna Sipes
Based on the landmark civil rights case Sipes vs. McGhee, The Color of Courage chronicles the friendship between a white woman and a black woman whose...

Batman Beyond: The Movie
1999
as Dr. Stephanie Lake (voice)
Fuelled by remorse and vengeance, a high schooler named Terry McGinnis becomes the new Batman as he fights crime in the futuristic Neo-Gotham City.

Point Last Seen
1998
as Rachel Harrison
Fact-based story about a tracker who searches for a little girl who was lost in the desert, but suffers internally because her own children were kidna...

Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Couples
1998
as Marie Taquet
Two fact-based tales about citizens who risked everything, including their lives, to save Holocaust victims.

Getting Close to the Show
1998
as Self
Documentary on the making of 'Dante's Peak' (1997).

On the Line
1998
as Jean Martin
A female police detective tries to track down a gang of teenage bank robbers while dealing with sexual harassment on the job, and her troubled home li...

Robots Rising
1998
as Narrator
Comprehensive survey of robotics filmed in the leading labs of the world (primarily the United States and Japan) and featuring experts such as Rodney ...

Dante's Peak
1997
as Rachel Wando
Volcanologist Harry Dalton comes to the sleepy town of Dante's Peak to investigate the recent rumblings of the dormant volcano the burg is named for. ...

Shadow Conspiracy
1997
as Amanda Givens
Bobby Bishop is a special assistant to the President of the United States. Accidentally, he meets his friend professor Pochenko on the street. Pochenk...
T2 3-D: Battle Across Time
1996
as Sarah Connor
Three freedom fighters attack a large corporation to prevent a future apocalypse.

The Way to Dusty Death
1995
as Beth MacAlpine
The protagonist, Johnny Harlow, a world champion Formula 1 racing driver, who appears to have become an alcoholic after a devastating wreck kills his ...

Separate Lives
1995
as Lauren Porter / Lena
Tom Beckwith has just quit his job as a police officer in order to study psychology. But his professor, Lauren Porter, is more interested in his crimi...

A Mother's Prayer
1995
as Rosemary Holmstrom
Rosemary Holmstrom is struggling to bring up her son following the death of her husband. When she is diagnosed with AIDS, at first she refuses to beli...

Silent Fall
1994
as Karen Rainer
Having seen the double murder of his parents, autistic youth Tim Warden is sent to therapy with controversial therapist Dr. Jake Rainer. Jake tries to...

T2: More Than Meets the Eye
1993
as Self
A documentary about scenes that were deleted from the original theatrical release of Terminator 2.

The Making of 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day'
1991
as Self
Documentary of the making of the sequel to the popular Schwarzenegger film, The Terminator.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991
as Sarah Connor
Set ten years after the events of the original, James Cameron’s classic sci-fi action flick tells the story of a second attempt to get rid of rebellio...

Mr. Destiny
1990
as Ellen Burrows
Larry Burrows is unhappy and feels powerless over his life. He believes his entire life could have turned out differently had he not missed that shot ...

Go Toward the Light
1988
as Claire Madison
A young couple faces the realities of life with their child who is diagnosed with AIDS.

King Kong Lives
1986
as Amy Franklin
After falling from the Twin Towers, Kong lies in a coma for ten years. When his heart begins to fail, scientists engineer an artificial heart, and a g...
King Kong! The Living Legend
1986
as Self
Documentary special to promote the release of King Kong Lives, the grand opening of the King Kong attraction at Universal theme park, as well as a loo...

Black Moon Rising
1986
as Nina
An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.

Club Med
1986
as Kate
Various romantic entanglements occur among the week's visitors to a Club Med resort in Ixtapa, Mexico. The "chef du village" is shocked when a former ...

Secret Weapons
1985
as Elena Koslov
Soviet High School girls are sent to the U.S. where they are taught to become secret agents and use sex to find information.

The Making of the Terminator
1985
as Self
This documentary treats movie fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Terminator, the now-classic science fiction film about an ordinary...

The Terminator
1984
as Sarah Connor
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Con...

The Stone Boy
1984
as Eva Crescent Moon Lady
12-year-old Arnold Hillerman and his 17-year-old brother Eugene live with their family on a farm in Montana. In an accident, Eugene is killed by Arnol...

Children of the Corn
1984
as Vicky
A traveling couple end up in an abandoned Nebraska town inhabited by a cult of murderous children who worship a demon that lives in the local cornfiel...

Secrets of a Mother and Daughter
1983
as Susan Decker
A widowed mother, Ava Pryce (Katharine Ross) and daughter Susan Decker (Linda Hamilton) clash over the same man, a West Coast restaurant the owner nam...

Wishman
1983
as Mattie MacGregor
Wishman is a genetic experiment condemned to spend its life in the lab. Two employees decide it deserves freedom, so they escape with it.

Country Gold
1982
as Josie Greenwood
An aging country singer becomes irritated with the success of a popular young country singer. However, she is not yet ready to become yesterday's news...

Tag: The Assassination Game
1982
as Susan Swayze
Pretending to do research for his newspaper, college student Alex Marsh teams up with the somewhat older Susan Swayze, who he long admired from afar. ...

Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
1980
as Greta Rideout
Based on the well-publicized Oregon criminal case of the late 1970s, this film dramatizes the unique dispute in which Greta Rideout instigated the pro...

Reunion
1980
as Anne Samoorian
A married man, returning to his small town for a high school reunion, finds himself torn between his long-ago high school girlfriend and her 17-year-o...

Night-Flowers
1979
as Wafer
Two Vietnam vets, Tom and Nordi, live sad lives in a crumbling New Jersey city. Sharing a one room apartment, they talk about their inability to hold ...

Jack & Lou: A Gangster Love Story
N/A
as Louise Rolfe
In the 1970s, old gangster moll Lou Rolfe is confronted with her involvement in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre orchestrated in 1929 by her former hu...

Trust Me, I'm a Doctor
N/A
as Ellyn Garafalo
The life of Dr. Sandeep Kapoor was turned upside down when he's implicated in the wrongful death trial of one-time Playboy centerfold Anna Nicole Smit...