Background and Age

Linda Carroll Hamilton was born in September 1956 She born in the state of Maryland and her mother was a descendant of the Mayflower pilgrims. Her father, Carroll Stanford Hamilton, was a physician and he died when she was only five. Her mother’s second husband was a police chief. She has a twin sister named Leslie Hamilton Gearren. She also grew up with a younger brother and an older sister.

She read books voraciously during her spare time. She decided to act when she was only 10 and she played a part in The Wind and Willows in the role of Badger. Linda went to Wicomico Junior High with her twin sister. She studied there for two years before she went to New York to study acting.

Career and Net Worth

Linda Hamilton's acting debut occurred on television when she got a major role, playing Lisa Rogers in the soap opera Secret of Midland Heights. She started to handle film roles with her first being TAG: The Assassination Game. Even though her acting teacher had told her that she would never earn a living as an actress, she was said to be one of the most promising actors when she started acting.

Linda became a star when she landed the role of Sarah Connor in the Terminator film franchise. Her identical twin played a role as her double in Terminator 2: Judgement. For this film, she won an MTV Movie Award for the Best Female Performance and for the Most Desirable Female. Even though Linda Carroll Hamilton says that she is a Democrat, she voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger who is a Republican and he was her co-star in the Terminator.

People Magazine chose her as a person among the 50 most beautiful people. She was also once a guest host of Saturday Night Live. She played a role in Beauty and the Beast where she was Catherine Chandler. She was nominated for Golden Globe twice and also for an Emmy. She had a recurring role playing Mary Elizabeth Bartowski in Chuck, an NBC production.

Linda Carroll Hamilton has a net worth of 70 million dollars.

Marriage, Husband, and Kids

Linda Carroll Hamilton has been divorced twice in her life. The first failed marriage was with Bruce Abbot which went on from 1982 to 1989. He walked away while she was still pregnant with her son, Dalton. When James Cameron got a divorce from Kathryn Bigelow, she moved in with him. They had a daughter together called Josephine who was born during the year 1993. They got married in 1997 but their marriage ended two years later in 1999. The settlement of the divorce was 50 million dollars.

While on Larry King Live, she said that she was suffering a bipolar disorder and this is why her first marriage was destroyed because she abused her husband physically and verbally.