Trivia

Her identical twin sister Leslie Hamilton Gearren was Linda's double in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). Leslie is seen when Sarah is remembering playing with John at the park and when the T-1000 is impersonating her.

Sprained her ankle prior to filming The Terminator (1984) and it never quite healed right on account of all the running she had to do in the film. While filming Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), she suffered permanent hearing damage in one ear while she fired a gun inside an elevator without using her earplugs.

She divorced second husband James Cameron after discovering he was having an affair with actress Suzy Amis during the making of the movie Titanic (1997). Her divorce from him was the second-most expensive divorce next to that of Steven Spielberg and Amy Irving. Hamilton stood to take half of Cameron's earnings - close to $50 million.

Has appeared on television and revealed that she suffered from bipolar disorder. She said that her condition had destroyed her marriage to her first husband Bruce Abbott, abusing him verbally and physically, and that it also had ruined her marriage to second husband James Cameron. Linda said that it was her love for her two children that finally forced her to seek treatment, and she began taking medication. That was 10 years ago, and Linda says that she will always be grateful that she chose treatment and regrets the pain that her illness caused those she loves.

No longer receives residuals for Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), due to Carolco, the film's studio, filing for bankruptcy. In a 2020 interview with WGN Radio, she claimed her friends pay her $1 every time they tell her they've seen the film on TV.

James Cameron offered her the role of Molly Brown in Titanic (1997) (ultimately played by Kathy Bates), but she declined.

While Hamilton was attending Washington College, the acting professor told her that she had no hope of earning a living as an actress.

After her role in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), she learned that she made such an impression as the pumped and ferociously tough Sarah Connor that she was typecast into being offered only roles for similarly tough characters.

She is the daughter of Barbara Kyle (Holt) and Carroll Stanford Hamilton, a physician. Her father died in an automobile accident when she was five.

She turned down a chance to reprise the role of Sarah Connor in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003).

Is a registered Democrat, but admitted to voting for Republican candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 2003 California gubernatorial election.

Talked about 20 years of treatment for bipolar disorder on the October 14, 2005 show of Larry King Live (1985).

In the original screenplay of The Terminator (1984), the character she played, Sarah Connor, was 19 years old. It was decision of James Cameron to make the character somewhat older to fit into Hamilton's age. In real life, Linda was 27 when filming started and turned 28 before the film was released.

At one stage in her life, she was addicted to cocaine.

Has a daughter with James Cameron: Josephine Cameron (born February 15, 1993).

Good friends with Beauty and the Beast (1987) co-star Ron Perlman. They reunited in the theater play "Love Letters" (1990), and in the post-Vietnam war drama Missing in America (2005).

Has an identical-twin sister (Leslie Hamilton Gearren deceased 8/22/20), an older sister (Laura Hamilton) and a younger brother (Ford Hamilton).

A former manager of hers embezzled $100,000 of her money.

Auditioned for the role of Captain Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager (1995), which went to Kate Mulgrew.

She reprised her Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) character, Sarah Connor, for the theme-park attraction T2 3-D: Battle Across Time (1996), a short film shot in a new 3-D process that makes the film appear to jump out at you.

Is perhaps best known for her roles as Sarah Connor in The Terminator (1984), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019), and as Catherine Chandler in Beauty and the Beast (1987).

She appeared with then-husband Bruce Abbott in two episodes of Beauty and the Beast (1987).

She read for the role of Joanne Galloway in A Few Good Men (1992), which went to Demi Moore instead.

Has a son with Bruce Abbott: Dalton Abbott (born October 4, 1989).

Attended Wicomico Junior High School in Salisbury, Maryland, with her identical-twin sister, Leslie Hamilton Gearren.

Was considered for the role of Captain Katherine Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager (1995).

She was considered for the role of Dr. Chase Meridian in Batman Forever (1995), which went to Nicole Kidman.

Her maternal grandfather, Richard Huckstep Holt, was born in Sombrerete, Zacatecas, Mexico, to American parents.

She was a method acting student at the Lee Strasberg Institute.

She has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Terminator (1984) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).

She was awarded the Best Featured Actress in a Comedy Award for Shoot Me Nicely (2016) at the 2016 Williamsburg Independent Film Festival.

Has worked with both actors who were the main heroes of the Predator movies: Arnold Schwarzenegger in three Terminator movies (The Terminator (1984), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)), and Danny Glover in Missing in America (2005).

Ex-sister-in-law of Mike Cameron and John David Cameron.