ACTOR
Lindsay Wagner
- Known for
- Nighthawks (1981), Ricochet (1991), The Six Million Dollar Man (1974), The Paper Chase (1973)
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Lindsay Wagner is an actor best known for Nighthawks, Ricochet and The Six Million Dollar Man.
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- #001
Lindsay Wagner was scheduled to be a passenger on American Airlines Flight 191 from Chicago to Los Angeles on May 25, 1979, but she felt uneasy about flying on that plane. She skipped the flight, which crashed just minutes after takeoff and killed everyone on board.
- #002
Lindsay Wagner agreed to reprise the Bionic Woman in Bionic Ever After? (1994) only on the condition that her character marry the Six Million Dollar Man, because she felt it was unfair that fans had waited nearly 20 years for the marriage to happen. The producers agreed, and the television film ended with a wedding.
- #003
Lindsay Wagner's acting career developed largely by chance. She was regularly babysitting her children when The Dukes of Hazzard (1979) star James Best suggested she join his acting classes.
- #004
Until Jodie Comer won in 2019, Lindsay Wagner was the youngest woman to win the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series; Zendaya then won it in 2020.
- #005
Lindsay Wagner was a contract player at Universal and was earning $1,000 a week when she guest-starred as Jaime Sommers in an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man (1974). Her character died at the end of the two-part episode, and Universal did not renew her contract because it believed the character had no further use. But the public reaction was so immediate and intense that Universal had to bring Jaime Sommers back from the dead. Wagner and her manager negotiated a substantial raise to $25,000 per episode for another two-part episode of The Six Million Dollar Man (1974). That led to her own series, The Bionic Woman (1976), for which she commanded $500,000 a year; a guarantee of five feature films; plus 12½% of the royalties from all Bionic Woman works.
- #006
Lindsay Wagner was the main guest star of the first episode (in fact the pilot) of The Rockford Files (1974).
- #007
The scar on Lindsay Wagner's upper right lip was caused by a car accident she had in 1976.
- #008
Lindsay Wagner first worked with Lee Majors in 1971, when she appeared as a guest actor on the series Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1971). A few years later she became famous for the role of The Bionic Woman (1976), a role she first played on The Six Million Dollar Man (1974), in which Majors starred.
- #009
Lindsay Wagner has two sons with her ex-husband, the stuntman Henry Kingi: Dorian Kingi (born 1982) and Alex Kingi (born 1986). Her former stepson is the stuntman Henry Kingi Jr. (born 1970).
- #010
On December 13, 1984, Lindsay Wagner was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6767 Hollywood Blvd.
- #011
In her Emmy acceptance speech for Outstanding Lead Actress for The Bionic Woman (1976), Lindsay Wagner thanked two people: her then-husband Michael Brandon and guest actor Linda Wiser, for being warm and supportive to her.
- #012
Lindsay Wagner lived in Portland, OR, and attended David Douglas High School when she was young.
- #013
Lindsay Wagner's father, Bill Wagner, was a school photographer.
- #014
Lindsay Wagner attended Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham, OR, and the University of Oregon.
- #015
Lindsay Wagner is the former niece of Linda Gray.
- #016
Lindsay Wagner is the daughter of Marilyn Ball, a retired building contractor, who served as a production consultant on her daughter's films Police Story: Burnout (1988) and The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story (1988).
- #017
Lindsay Wagner is a cousin of Kehly Sloane and Jeff Thrasher.
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