Lindsay Wagner

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Lindsay Jean Wagner (born June 22, 1949) is an American film and television actress, model, author, singer, acting coach, and adjunct professor.

Wagner is best known for her leading role in the American science-fiction television series The Bionic Woman (1976–1978), in which she portrayed action character Jaime Sommers.

She first played this role on the hit series The Six Million Dollar Man.

The character became a popular-culture icon of the 1970s.

For this role, Wagner won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Dramatic Role in 1977.

Wagner began acting professionally in 1971 and has maintained a lengthy acting career in a variety of film and television productions to the present day.

Early life

Wagner was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Marilyn Louise (née Thrasher) and William Nowels Wagner. When she was seven years old, Wagner's parents divorced and her mother moved with her to the northeast Los Angeles neighborhood of Eagle Rock, near Pasadena. Another relocation with her mother and stepfather, Ted Ball, brought Wagner to Portland, Oregon, where she attended David Douglas High School and appeared in a number of school plays.

After graduation, Wagner spent a couple of months in France before enrolling at the University of Oregon for one year. Wagner then transferred to Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham, for six months before dropping out and moving to Los Angeles. She was diagnosed with dyslexia.

Personal life

During the first year of The Bionic Woman, Wagner was the driver in a car accident with her then boyfriend, actor Michael Brandon, in the passenger seat. Brandon almost lost an eye and Wagner received a severe cut on her upper lip which left a small but permanent scar. The event halted production on the show for weeks.

Prior to being married, Wagner lived with Captain Daniel M. Yoder (USAF) until he went to Vietnam. She has been married and divorced four times. From 1971 to 1973, she was married to music publisher Allan Rider. From 1976 to 1979, she was married to Michael Brandon. In 1981, she married stuntman Henry Kingi, whom she met on the set of The Bionic Woman. Wagner had two sons with Kingi, Dorian (b. 1982) and Alex (b. 1986). The couple divorced in 1984. Wagner married TV producer Lawrence Mortorff in 1990 and they divorced three years later.

Wagner was scheduled to be a passenger on American Airlines Flight 191 from Chicago to Los Angeles on May 25, 1979, but suddenly felt very ill while waiting for the plane. She skipped the flight, which crashed only minutes after takeoff, killing all 271 people on board and 2 people on the ground – the deadliest aviation accident to have occurred in the United States.

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Career

Wagner starred in Los Angeles as a model and gained some television experience by appearing as a hostess in Playboy After Dark in 1969, and she also became a contestant on the game show The Dating Game in 1969 (one of her potential suitors, whom she did not choose was television actor Roger Ewing). She began working as a contract actor in Universal Studios in 1971 and spent time as a contract player in Universal Studios. Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law, Sarge, and Night Gallery (1971, as the nurse in the episode "The Diary") was her primetime network television debut, and she went on to appear in more than a dozen other Universal shows, including Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law, "Million Dollar Buff" (P.M.).

She appeared in five episodes of Universal's Marcus Welby, M.D., between 1971 and 1975. The Rockford Files has two seasons. When Universal cast her in Two People, her first feature film and her first lead role, Wagner stepped back into film roles. She appeared in The Paper Chase, the twentieth century Fox film in which she appeared as the daughter of the stern law professor Kingfield.

Jaime Sommers, a former tennis professional who was the childhood sweetheart of "Six Million Dollar Man" Colonel Steve Austin, was born in 1975 and portrayed by Lee Majors, during his five-year stay at Universal Studios. Kenneth Johnson, who appeared in a featurette on the 2010 North American DVD release of The Bionic Woman season one, was cast in the role based on her appeal and spontaneity after she saw her appearance in the pilot and a follow-up episode of The Rockford Files. Her character is seriously wounded in a skydiving crash and fitted with bionic implants similar to Austin's, but her body refuses them, resulting in her death.

Wagner's last work under her Universal contract was supposed to be Wagner's last role, but public reaction to her character was so pronounced that the "death" was turned into a cover story for a near-death cover tale, and Wagner appeared in a two-part series The Bionic Woman, which debuted in January 1976. She co-starred in a Canadian film, Second Wind opposite James Naughton, the previous year. During the series's run, she made several crossover appearances in The Six Million Dollar Man. In 1977, Wagner received the Emmy Award for his work "Best Actress in a Dramatic Role."

Wagner continued to perform, mainly in television miniseries and television films, following The Bionic Woman's demise in 1978. They included the highly rated 1980 miniseries Scruples, as well as three made-for-TV Bionic reunion films with Lee Majors between 1987 and 1994. Wagner co-starred in two other weekly television series, Jessie (1984) and A Peaceable Kingdom (1989), both of which were short-lived. She appeared in an episode of Lee Majors' series The Fall Guy in 1983.

Wagner continued to appear in the 1990s and 2000s, but in less prominent roles, such as a small role in the action movie Ricochet (1991). Melissa Gilbert, Buckaroo: The Story (2005), and Four Extraordinary Women (2006) were two of her most recent films. Wagner played Dr. Vanessa Calder in the SyFy channel's hit drama Warehouse 13 in 2010 and reprised the role in its Syfy sibling show Alphas in 2011. Wagner began teaching at San Bernardino Valley College, California, in the fall semester of 2013 (Acting and Directing for Television and Film, Motion Picture Production) as an adjunct faculty member. Wagner appeared in NCIS season 13, episode 10: "Blood Brothers" as Barbara Bishop, the mother of NCIS Probationary Agent Eleanor Bishop (Emily Wickersham).

Helen Karev's mother, Alex Karev's mother, appeared in Grey's Anatomy for a single episode and reappearing in 2019 for a handful of episodes during Season 14.

Wagner co-star in Death Stranding, a video game being produced by Sony Interactive Entertainment and Kojima Productions, in June 2018. Wagner lent her likeness to the characters Bridget and Amelie Strand, and she also portrayed the former, with Emily O'Brien starring the latter and a younger version of the former. Death Stranding was Wagner's first appearance in a video game and her first exposure to the industry's motion capture and voice acting techniques.

Wagner wrote a series of books with Robert M. Klein in 1987 about using acupressure to achieve results similar to a surgical facelift. High Road to Health, she wrote one of the first "celebrity" vegetarian (and mainly vegan) cookbooks in 1994. Wagner was a spokesperson for Southern California's local Ford Motor Company dealerships from 1987 to 2000. She served as a spokesperson for Select Comfort's "Sleep Number" bed from 2003 to 2009.

Wagner has given lectures and workshops on her self-help program, "Quiet the Mind and Open the Heart," which promotes spirituality and meditation.

In 2010, she appeared in interviews and featurettes included in The Bionic Woman and The Six Million Dollar Man's long-awaited North American DVD releases.

Wagner (i.e., hives) Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS), a drug that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has listed as a hazardous industrial bleach used in wastewater removal and hydraulic fracturing, was widely used in 2016.

In 1977, Wagner was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Dramatic Role for her role in the Bionic Woman television series.

The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce presented Wagner with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, category 'Film', located on the north side of the 6700 block of Hollywood Boulevard on December 13, 1984.

In 2012, a Golden Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars recipient Wagner was dedicated to Wagner.

The actress was given the Humanitarian Award at the San Diego International Film Festival on October 18, 2019. Geena Davis, Mariel Hemingway, and Joaquin Phoenix have all been named among the winners.

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