Linda Hamilton Filmography

Thief [TV Series]

Actors: Andre Braugher

Synopsis:

After years of upholding law and order on the cop drama Homicide: Life on the Street, Andre Braugher crossed over to the criminal side as the title character in the FX network weekly Thief. Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, the series cast Braugher as Nick Atwater, who supplemented his Read More

The Kid & I

Actors: Tom Arnold, Eric Gores, Linda Hamilton, Henry Winkler

Synopsis: A washed-up actor finds an unlikely path back to the big screen in this offbeat family comedy. Bill Williams (Tom Arnold) is an actor whose career has gone into a severe tailspin ever since his brief fling with fame -- a supporting role in the Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle True Lies. Sinking into Read More

Smile

Actors: Mika Boorem, Luoyong Wang, Beau Bridges, Cheri Oteri, Linda Hamilton

Synopsis: Two girls born at the same time on different sides of the world are brought together by an act of mercy in this drama. Katie (Mika Boorem) is a high-school student who has grown up in a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles. While Katie has never had to want for material things, she feels a certain Read More

Missing in America

Actors: Danny Glover, Linda Hamilton, David Strathairn, Ron Perlman, Zoë Weizenbaum

Synopsis: A reclusive Vietnam veteran finds his quiet life thrown into chaos upon receiving an unexpected visitor in this tale of friendship and healing starring Danny Glover, Linda Hamilton, and Ron Perlman. Though 35 years have passed since Jake (Glover) returned to American soil after fighting in the Read More

Silent Night

Actors: Linda Hamilton, Matthew Harbour, Alain Goulem, Romano Orzari

Synopsis: World War II is fought on a small scale in this 2003 drama starring Linda Hamilton of The Terminator. Hamilton plays a single German mother hiding out with her young son in a rural cabin. On Christmas Eve, 1944, three American soldiers show up, seeking refuge from the battlefield. Just as a bond Read More

A Girl Thing

Actors: Stockard Channing, Elle MacPherson, Kate Capshaw

Synopsis: Stockard Channing stars in this made-for-cable comedy-drama as Dr. Beth Noonan, a female psychiatrist trying to hold her life together as she guides four of her patients through personal turmoil. Lauren Travis (Elle MacPherson), a respected lawyer, finds her sexual identity thrown into question Read More

Bailey's Mistake

Actors: Linda Hamilton, Kyle Secor, Jesse James, Paz de la Huerta, Joan Plowright

Synopsis: "Bailey's Mistake" is the apt cognomen for a dismal, virtually uninhabitable island off the coast of Maine. Upon finding that the island was secretly purchased by her late husband, impoverished widow Liz Donovan (Linda Hamilton) heads "down east" to discover just what it was about Bailey's Mistake Read More

Sex & Mrs. X

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Linda Hamilton, Paolo Seganti

Synopsis: A reporter learns some lessons about love from a woman who has made it her business in this made-for-TV comedy-drama. Joanna Scott (Linda Hamilton) is a woman who thought she had the perfect life -- a successful career as a journalist and a strong marriage with her husband, Dale (Stewart Bick) Read More

Skeletons in the Closet

Actors: Gordon Clapp, Schuyler Fisk, Treat Williams, Linda Hamilton, Jonathan Jackson

Synopsis: Single father Will Reed (Treat Williams) and his teenaged son Seth (Jonathan Jackson) have increasingly uncomfortable conflicts that go beyond the usual coming-of-age difficulties. Seth has grown reclusive and mysterious as his father does his best to communicate with him. Seth's binge drinking Read More

The Secret Life of Girls

Actors: Linda Hamilton, Eugene Levy, Majandra Delfino, Meagan Good, Aeryk Egan

Synopsis: Yet another teenager discovers how difficult growing up can be in this comedy-drama. It's 1973, and 15-year-old Natalie (Majandra Delfino), shy and bookish, is caught in the emotional crossfire at home when her hippie-ish mom, Ruby (Linda Hamilton), discovers that dad, Hugh (Eugene Levy), a Read More

On the Line

Actors: Linda Hamilton, Jeff Fahey, Coolio, Jay Acavone, Maria Del Mar

Synopsis: Detective Jean Martin (Linda Hamilton, in her first TV movie) isn't happy at the LAPD sex crimes unit and gets a transfer to robbery/homicide, where she's partnered with Dan Collins (Jeff Fahey) and Lt. Gil Suggs (Coolio). As a single mom, Martin tries to raise her young son (Tim Redwine) and Read More

Point Last Seen

Actors: Linda Hamilton, Mary Kay Place, Kevin Kilner

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this intense made-for-television drama chronicles the courage of a search-and-rescue team leader who masters her own fears and concerns to find a child lost in the desert. Her inner turmoil stems from the fact that her potentially dangerous ex-husband has abducted her own Read More

The Color of Courage

Actors: Linda Hamilton, Lynn Whitfield, Bruce Greenwood, Roger Guenveur Smith, David Andrews

Synopsis: Inspired by a true story (the events of which led to the Sipes vs. McGhee trial, in which the United States Supreme Court declared that covenants used to segregate neighborhoods were unconstitutional), The Color of Courage concerns Mac McGhee (Roger Guenveur Smith), his wife Minnie (Lynn Read More

Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Couples

Actors: Elizabeth Perkins, Martin Donovan, Sela Ward, Dana Delany, Alfred Molina, Al Waxman, Linda Hamilton, Jan Rubes

Synopsis: Two inspiring true tales comprise this feature. Both center on ordinary people who risked everything during WW II to save Jewish people from the Holocaust. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Frasier: Odd Man Out

Synopsis: Linda Hamilton of Terminator fame provides the voice of Laura, a mysterious woman who leaves a tantalyzing message on Frasier's answering service. Never mind that the message was posted accidentally: Frasier is lonely, vulnerable, and in desperate need of female companionship. Impulsively, he Read More

Dante's Peak

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton, Charles Hallahan, Grant Heslov, Elizabeth Hoffman

Synopsis: Old Smokey develops a bad temper in this volcanic disaster spectacle. Harry Dalton (Pierce Brosnan) is a volcano expert whose interest became more than academic after he lost the woman he loved in a volcanic emergency. When he is sent to investigate unusual seismic activity in the quiet Pacific Read More

Shadow Conspiracy

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Donald Sutherland, Theodore Bikel, Linda Hamilton

Synopsis: Presidential advisor Bobby Bishop (Charlie Sheen) is hunted by an unknown assailant in this political thriller. With the help of Chief-of-Staff Jake Conrad (Donald Sutherland) and the newspaper journalist Amanda (Linda Hamilton), he uncovers an assassination plot to kill the President and his Read More

Terminator 2: 3-D

Actors: Edward Furlong, Arnold Schwarzenegger

Synopsis: This 12-minute short featuring much of the cast and crew of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) cost $60 million to produce, making it the most expensive venture per minute in movie history. The film was the centerpiece of a multimedia attraction at the Universal Studios Florida theme park in Read More

A Mother's Prayer

Actors: Noah Fleiss, Linda Hamilton, RuPaul

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this emotional made-for-television drama is aimed at heightening public awareness of the tragedy for children with HIV-positive parents. Linda Hamilton was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance as widow Rosemary Holmstrom, a single mother who is battling the Read More

Separate Lives

Actors: James Belushi, Linda Hamilton, Vera Miles, Elisabeth Moss, Drew Snyder

Synopsis: This psychological thriller was cowritten by Steven Pressfield, who went on to become a successful novelist with The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) and historical fiction such as Gates of Fire and Tides of War. Linda Hamilton stars as Lauren Porter, a well-regarded professor of psychology who fears Read More

Silent Fall

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, John Lithgow, Linda Hamilton, J.T. Walsh, Ben Faulkner

Synopsis: This by-the-numbers psychodrama about a child psychologist trying to discern the truth behind a pair of murders stars Richard Dreyfuss as Dr. Jake Rainer, a child psychologist living in an upscale community. Rainer retired when a patient committed suicide, but the local sheriff (J.T. Walsh) calls Read More

Indian Summer

Actors: Alan Arkin, Elizabeth Perkins, Matt Craven, Diane Lane, Kimberly Payne Williams, Bill Paxton, Vincent Spano

Synopsis: Mike Binder wrote and directed this reunion story in The Big Chill vein about of group of ex-campers, now in their twenties, who return to their old summer camp to get together again. Alan Arkin plays Uncle Lou, the old camp counselor and resident sage at Canadian summer camp Tamakwa. Leading a Read More

Frasier: The Good Son

Synopsis: In this first episode of the long-running sitcom Frasier, former Bostonite (and Cheers regular) Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) arrives in Seattle to accept a job as a radio psychiatrist on station KACL. Advised by his brother, Niles (David Hyde Pierce), that their ex-policeman father Martin (John Mahoney Read More

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick, Earl Boen

Synopsis: A sequel to the low-budget sci-fi action thriller that made him and star Arnold Schwarzenegger A-list Hollywood names, writer/director James Cameron upped the ante with this follow-up by employing a more sweeping storyline and cutting-edge special effects. Linda Hamilton returns as Sarah Connor Read More

Saturday Night Live: Linda Hamilton

Actors: Linda Hamilton, Mariah Carey

Synopsis: This 1991 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Linda Hamilton and features musical guest Mariah Carey. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Mr. Destiny

Actors: James Belushi, Michael Caine, Linda Hamilton, Jon Lovitz, Hart Bochner

Synopsis: Businessman Larry Burrows (James Belushi) has a wife who ignores him, a screwball friend who won't leave him alone, and a car that continually breaks down. All that and more is enough to give him a mid-life crisis. After his car stalls once more, he enters a bar looking for help and encounters a Read More

Beauty and the Beast: Season 03

Beauty and the Beast: Above, Below and Beyond

Synopsis: From the popular '80s television series comes this episode about the man/beast Vincent, who has fallen in love with Catherine, a young attorney, and desires that she stay with him in his underground home, although he knows she belongs to the city above. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Beauty and the Beast: Though Lovers Be Lost, Part 1

Synopsis: This episode from the television fantasy series of the '80s deals with the kidnapping of the beauty Catherine by a malevolent crime boss and how her beloved beastial Vincent comes to her rescue. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Beauty and the Beast: Ashes, Ashes

Beauty and the Beast: The Alchemist

Go Toward the Light

Actors: Linda Hamilton, Richard Thomas, Piper Laurie, Ned Beatty, Joshua Harris

Synopsis: Based on the autobiographical book by Chris Oyler, the made-for-TV Go Toward the Light is a sometimes wrenching, ofttimes inspirational AIDS drama. Claire and Greg Madison (Linda Hamilton and Richard Thomas) discover to their horror that their hemophiliac son Ben (Joshua Harris) has contracted the Read More

Beauty and the Beast: Remember Love

Beauty and the Beast: Season 02

Beauty and the Beast: Season 01

Beauty and the Beast: Song of Orpheus

Beauty and the Beast: Once Upon a Time in the City of New York

Synopsis: This made-for-television movie was the pilot for the series Beauty and the Beast. An attorney (Linda Hamilton) in New York City has her life saved by a huge, deformed but gentle man-beast named Vincent (Ron Perlman). Vincent, not wishing to live among "normal" people, lives in the underground Read More

Beauty and the Beast: Nor Iron Bars a Cage

Beauty and the Beast: Siege

Beauty and the Beast: No Way Down

Beauty and the Beast: The Beast Within

Beauty and the Beast: Masques

King Kong Lives

Actors: Peter Anthony Elliott, Brian Kerwin, George Yiasumi, Linda Hamilton, John Ashton, Peter Michael Goetz, Frank Maraden

Synopsis: Pandering über-producer Dino De Laurentiis followed his unnecessary 1976 remake of King Kong with this even more pointless sequel ten years later. Though the colossal ape Kong took a half-gainer off the World Trade Center for Jessica Lange at the previous film's climax, we are told at the sequel's Read More

Black Moon Rising

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton, Robert Vaughn, Richard Jaeckel, Lee Ving

Synopsis: A John Carpenter story served as the launching pad for Black Moon Rising. Veteran thief Quint (Tommy Lee Jones) is hired by the FBI to steal some politically volatile computer tapes. The owners of the tapes are displeased, and begin chasing Quint all over the countryside. Just when he's about to Read More

Club Med

Actors: Jack Scalia, Linda Hamilton, Patrick Macnee, Jeff Kaake

Synopsis: This romantic made-for-TV movie chronicles episodes from the varied lives of visitors to the popular Mexican seaside resort. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Menace Anyone?

Synopsis: In Boston, Jessica agrees to serve as honorary chairperson at a charity tennis tournament where her former student Carol (Linda Hamilton) is one of the players. It so happens that Carol is the girlfriend of a much-hated tennis star, who ends up being blown to bits by a bomb planted in Carol's car. Read More

Secret Weapons

Synopsis: In this exploitation film, the KGB trains a sexy young spy-trainee to become an "all-American" temptress capable of seducing the secrets out of many US officials and businessmen. She will then use the resulting information to blackmail these men into serving her government. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

The Making of "The Terminator" & "Missing in Action 2"

The Terminator

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield, Lance Henriksen

Synopsis: Endlessly imitated, The Terminator made the reputation of cowriter/director James Cameron -- who would go on to make 1997's titanic Titanic -- and solidified the stardom of Arnold Schwarzenegger. The movie begins in a post-apocalyptic 2029, when Los Angeles has been largely reduced to rubble and Read More

Children of the Corn

Actors: Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, R.G. Armstrong, John Franklin, Courtney Gains

Synopsis: Narrator Job (Robby Kiger) relates the tale of Gatlin, NE, where one day the children, led by a boy preacher named Isaac (John Franklin), rose up and slaughtered all the grown-ups. A few years later, Job and his sister, Sarah (Ammemarie McEvoy), help their friend, Joseph (Jonas Marlowe), try to Read More

The Stone Boy

Actors: Robert Duvall, Jason Presson, Frederic Forrest, Glenn Close, Wilford Brimley

Synopsis: In this tightly-wound, perceptive film, a young farm boy kills his older brother when a shotgun accidentally goes off then retreats into a shell of silence as his family seems to react against him. Arnold (Jason Presson) and his brother get up at the crack of dawn to go duck hunting, but their Read More

Secrets of a Mother and Daughter

Synopsis: In this drama, a mother and daughter become rivals for a single man's affections. The mother is a widowed movie star and the daughter is recently divorced. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

T.A.G.: The Assassination Game

Actors: Robert Carradine, Linda Hamilton, Bruce Abbott, Kristine de Bell, Frazer Smith

Synopsis: Students at a college with obviously low graduation requirements spend their time and energy playing a game that involves mock assassinations with rubber-tipped darts fired from plastic guns. If you are shot, you are assassinated and out of the game and whoever remains alone at the end wins. When Read More

Country Gold

Synopsis: In this musical drama a famed country singer and her newest competitor, a rising star, compete to become female vocalist of the year. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case

Actors: Linda Hamilton, Mickey Rourke, Rip Torn, Eugene Roche, Conchata Ferrell

Synopsis: The landmark 1978 courtroom prosecution which determined that a married man can by law be brought up on charges of raping his wife, was meticulously--and tastefully--detailed in this made-for-TV movie. Linda Hamilton stars as Oregon housewife Greta Rideout, who after years of abuse at the hands Read More

Reunion

Synopsis: In this drama, a married man attends his high school reunion and finds himself falling for his ex-sweetheart's daughter. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More