Linda Hamilton: The History of the Actress

Linda Hamilton is one of the most famous Hollywood actresses. Glory to her brought first of all roles in the films "Terminator" and "Terminator 2: Judgment Day." She is also the ex-wife of film director James Cameron.

Uneasy relationship of the actress with her sister

Linda Hamilton was born almost at the same time with her twin sister Leslie. Linda was born just 6 minutes late. When the girls turned five years old, the family suffered a misfortune - their father died in a car crash. The mother of the girls married the second time for the Salisbury Police Director. But the death of his father was not for the little girl such a source of suffering as her own sister.

Linda Hamilton very much complexed about her resemblance to her. At 16, she did everything that only depended on her, just to be different from Leslie. Linda made herself short haircuts, gained about 50 kg of excess weight, tried to stick to a different from the sister way of life. While Leslie was active and energetic, Linda tried to be a recluse and an intellectual.

Mental illness

Many biographers believe that it was from adolescence that actress Linda Hamilton began to suffer from a mental disorder - manic-depressive psychosis. Up to thirty years she refused any therapy, but then she was forced to resort to drugs. Over time, however, the misunderstanding between the sisters began to subside, and Linda even managed to persuade James Cameron to give her sister a small role in the final episode of "The Terminator."

Childhood of Linda

In school years, Linda Hamilton did not dream of a star career. As an ordinary child, she wanted to become a firefighter or an archaeologist. For two years she studied piano. One summer, Linda devoted her work to the zoo.

When performances were staged at the school, she participated in them only for the reason that it seemed very amusing to the public to see in the performance two identical actors.

First success

In 1976, Linda Hamilton moved from Chesterton to New York. It happened after the girl graduated from college. There she starts attending the acting studio of Lee Strasberg. In 1979, Linda graduated from the studio and again moved - this time to California. Filming in the movie "Terminator" is an event after which Linda Hamilton became famous worldwide. The filmography of the following years includes many films:

• "She wrote a murder";
• "The beauty and the Beast";
• "Mister fate";
• "The silent fall";
• "Peak Dante" and others.

For the role in the movie "Terminator", the actress received a huge amount of film awards.

Attempts to arrange a personal life

In 1989, Linda buys a house in France, but she can not live peacefully: after the first miscarriage she becomes pregnant again. This time, she is safely born a child - the son of Dalton. In December, she will be divorced from the child's father - Bruce Abbott. However, Linda is not depressed and buys a house in Hawaii.

There she rests between filming new films. In May 1990, the actress receives an invitation to shoot the second part of the "Terminator" and begins to work hard on their physical data. For a successful role, she receives new awards. After two more miscarriages, the actress's daughter Josefina appears.

Marriage with James Cameron

In 1997, Linda Hamilton married Cameron. The marriage lasted only a year. Recently, Linda rarely appears in the interview. Now she lives with the children in Malibu and still devotes much time to work. In a few conversations with reporters, Linda talks about her past and how she manages to overcome her mental disorder.

The actress believes that marriage with James Cameron was profitable, primarily for the director himself. After all, he could at any time use it in his films, and also to attach Linda to the vacant roles in the film projects of friends. After the stunning success of the movie "Titanic" Linda Hamilton did not need a director. The parting happened in 1998. Since that time, the public was very little known about Linda's personal life.

Confessions of the actress

In her interview to the CNN, Linda confesses that she suffered from bouts of depression since childhood, and already in her youth she showed signs of alcoholism. She says that, as a teenager, she often mixed alcohol with drugs. However, the death of one of her friends stopped Linda in time, and she decided to undergo psychotherapy.

Many wonder how old Linda Hamilton is. Since the actress was born in 1956, she is now 60 years old. Now the most important thing for an actress is friends and children.