5 Things You Didn’t Know About Lindsay Wagner, TV’s ‘Bionic Woman’

The Bionic Woman star Lindsay Wagner knew she wanted an acting career early on. Born in L.A. on June 22, 1949, Wagner dropped out of college to roll the Hollywood dice and got good early notices in the Oscar-winning 1974 film, The Paper Chase. Still, the blond beauty never dreamed she’d became TV’s first female cyborg superhero — and the idol of a jillion little girls — when she guest-starred as the title character’s doomed girlfriend, Jaime Sommers, in The Six Million Man.

Bionic implants killed, instead of saved, Jaime Sommers in that show. But fans fell hard for Wagner and her spunky character, howled in protest at the death, and the 26-year-old actress scored a series of her own, earning an Emmy in the process.