4 Nov 2005
Lindsay Wagner Show: "The Bionic Woman" (1976-1979 with subsequent TV movies).
Born: Lindsay Jean Ball, June 22, 1949, in Los Angeles. Family: Divorced her fourth husband, Lawrence Mortorff, in 1993; two children. Character: Jamie Sommers, the Bionic Woman. Superhero stuff: Bionic legs, arm and ear. Show Theme song: Orchestral number mixed with images of her parachute accident and bionic surgery. Movie: Not much talk of a movie, but perhaps there might be a Bionic Woman role in a "Six Million Dollar Man" movie. Spokeswoman: Sleep Number beds. Action figure: $143 on eBay. Fan site: www.bionicandbeyond.com Bet you didn't know: Won an Emmy for "The Bionic Woman" in 1976. Other claims to fame: Wrote "The High Road to Health," a vegan/vegetarian cookbook. Auditioned for but didn't get: Rumored to have been up for the part of Captain Kathryn Janeway on "Star Trek: Voyager." Recent projects: TV movies "The Surfer King," "Buckaroo" and "Thicker Than Water."
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