The Bionic Girl star Lindsay Wagner knew she wished an performing profession early on. Born in L.A. on June 22, 1949, Wagner dropped out of school to roll the Hollywood cube and acquired good early notices within the Oscar-winning 1974 movie, The Paper Chase. Nonetheless, the blond magnificence by no means dreamed she’d turned TV’s first feminine cyborg superhero — and the idol of a jillion little ladies — when she guest-starred because the title character’s doomed girlfriend, Jaime Sommers, in The Six Million Man.
Bionic implants killed, as an alternative of saved, Jaime Sommers in that present. However followers fell laborious for Wagner and her spunky character, howled in protest on the demise, and the 26-year-old actress scored a sequence of her personal, incomes an Emmy within the course of.