Lindsay Wagner

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Lindsay Wagner (2016)

Lindsay Jean Wagner (born June 22, 1949 in Los Angeles , California ) is an Emmy- winning American film and television actress. In her 50-year career, she has appeared in over 50 television films.

Life

When Wagner was seven, her parents separated and she and her mother moved to northeast Los Angeles, to Eagle Rock near Pasadena . As a 13-year-old teenager , she was offered the lead role in a television series , but on the advice of a family friend, she refused to accept the offer because she was supposed to wait until she was older.

Another move with her mother and stepfather, Ted Ball, took her to Portland , Oregon , where she appeared in several theatrical productions at her high school . After graduating from school , she studied at the University of Oregon, where she treated the severe dyslexia that she had struggled with since childhood. During her studies she worked as a model in Los Angeles and gained some experience in television through her appearance in the US series Playboy after Dark .

It was a while before Wagner contacted a friend at Universal Studios and shortly afterwards a small role on the series Dr. med. Marcus Welby got. Her appearances earned her more significant roles in 1972 in the films Two People On The Move and The Trials Time .

Then Wagner played the role of Jaime Sommers , former tennis pro and childhood sweetheart of the six million dollar man . Jaime is critically injured in a parachute jump and, at the insistence of her friend Steve Austin , is restored with bionic body parts. But Jaime's body rejects the new parts and after a long internal struggle the young woman dies on the operating table. That should have been Wagner's last role on Universal , but the public response to her appearance as Jaime Sommers was so overwhelming that Jaime was brought back to life and got her own spin-off series: The Seven Million Dollar Woman . This role, which was to become Wagner's most famous ever, earned her an Emmy in 1976 for best actress in a series. Like Steve Austin , Jaime became an agent of a fictional American government organization, the OSI. After the series ended, three more television films were made about Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers. In the last of the films, the bionic couple gets married.

In August 2019, Wagner was awarded for her life's work at the Cineways Film Festival in Wolfsburg.

In addition to acting, Wagner is involved in several organizations for charitable projects, among other things, supports a project to promote children with dyslexia and is chairman of an association to protect young people from sexual abuse.

Wagner has had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame since 1984 .

Private

Wagner was married four times. From 1971 to 1973 she was the wife of music producer Allan Rider . From 1976 to 1979 she was married to actor and author Michael Brandon . In 1981 she married Henry Kingi , a stunt performer on the set of the seven million dollar woman . With Kingi, Wagner had two sons: Dorian (* 1982) and Alex (* 1986). Four years after the birth of their second son, Wagner married the television producer Lawrence Mortorff . The couple separated a few years later.

Others

Wagner wanted to fly from Chicago to Los Angeles on American Airlines Flight 191 on May 25, 1979 , but did not feel well that day and canceled the trip. The machine crashed shortly after the start. All 271 passengers on board and two residents of a trailer park were killed.

Filmography (selection)

Movies
  • 1973: Two People on the Road (Two People)
  • 1973: Time of Trials (The Paper Chase)
  • 1979: The two worlds of Jenny Logan (The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan)
  • 1981: Nighthawks (Nighthawks)
  • 1981: Satisfaction (High Risk)
  • 1983: A Woman Screams for Life (I Want to Live)
  • 1985: This Child Is Mine
  • 1985: Where were you then, Claire? (The Other Lover)
  • 1986: Child's Cry
  • 1987: The Heartbreakers from the Last Bank (Student Exchange)
  • 1987: The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
  • 1987: Stranger in My Bed
  • 1988: Burned Out (Police Story: Burnout)
  • 1988: The Supreme Commandment (Evil in Clear River)
  • 1988: Driven hunt in Bitter Creek (Nightmare at Bitter Creek)
  • 1989: From the Dead of Night
  • 1991: Ricochet - The Impact (Ricochet)
  • 1992: Heaven Knows No Tears (A Message from Holly)
  • 1993: Crashed in the Jungle (Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7)
  • 1995: Sold and Humiliated (Fighting for My Daughter)
  • 1996: I want my kids back (A Mother's Instinct)
  • 1997: Their Second Chance
  • 1998: The Orion Star's Voyage of Terror
  • 2006: Fighting Cancer (Four Extraordinary Women)
TV Shows
Video games

Web links

Commons : Lindsay Wagner  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch?explore=title_type&role=nm0905993&ref_=filmo_ref_typ&sort=num_votes,desc&mode=detail&page=1&title_type=tvMovie
  2. ↑ Cineways - Lindsay Wagner receives award for lifetime achievement , wolfsburger-nachrichten.de
  3. ↑ http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/lindsay-wagner/
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Lindsay
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ball, Lindsay Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION american actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California