We Know Exactly Where You'll Remember Hallmark Star Lindsay Wagner From
Hallmark's new Christmas movie, Mingle All The Way, is a tech-centric romance about Molly (Jen Lilley), who is horrified when the dating app she created matches her with a former flame (Brant Daugherty). Veteran actress Lindsay Wagner plays the role of Molly's mom, Veronica, and has a long and varied resume of TV and movie credits dating back five decades. Here's a few key things to know about the 69-year-old star.
She's a TV icon.
Lindsay is best known to audiences for her legendary title role in the science-fiction series The Bionic Woman, which ran from 1976 until 1978. Lindsay played Jaime Sommers, a professional tennis player who suffers a serious skydiving injury and is saved by a surgical procedure involving bionic implants. With her newly enhanced strength and hearing ability, Sommers undertakes spy missions assigned to her by the government.
Lindsay first portrayed Sommers in the series The Six Million Dollar Man, and the skydiving injury was originally intended to lead to her character’s death. But Sommers proved so popular that a spinoff was engineered for her instead.
She has more than 90 acting credits to her name.
Having started out as a model, Lindsay has now been acting for close to five decades, and has appeared in numerous shows including Grey’s Anatomy and the Syfy series Warehouse 13. She’s also a Hallmark veteran, having starred in a slew of TV movies for the channel since 2015 including last year’s Eat, Play, Love-which reunited her with Six Million Dollar Man co-star Lee Majors.
She has been married four times.
People reports that Lindsay was first married to music publisher Allan Rider for two years, and was then wed to actor Michael Brandon for three. After that, she tied the knot with Hollywood stuntman Henry Kingi, with whom she shares two children, Dorian and Alex. Following their divorce, she settled down with producer Lawrence Mortorff, however they also split in 1993, according to People.
She’s passionate about holistic healing.
Lindsay has been studying holistic healing ever since it helped her to recover from stress-induced ulcers as a teenager. “It was just such a profound experience for me that I wanted to learn more and it began a life of study for me,” Lindsay told The Star. “My whole life I’ve been studying this. It’s been my real passion.”
Lindsay now runs “Quiet the Mind & Open the Heart” workshops, which encourage people to overcome their struggles and access inner peace and joy. “We have the capability to change the way we feel about things, even if we cannot change the circumstances,” she explained. "I help people deal with all kinds of everyday life problems-things we think are so difficult, but which are not really, it's just our perspective of them."
Lindsay is also an advocate for victims of domestic violence, and in recent years has opened up about her own experience of growing up in a household marked by domestic abuse. "I would bottle it all up inside and cover it up by being the funny one. The more I hurt the funnier I became," Lindsay told The Yorkshire Post. She added that she originally got into acting as a means of coping. “Acting class was a place where I could express my emotions in a safe environment. It helped me realize that I had nothing to be ashamed of. Domestic violence can be very isolating. I was only 12 and it really helped."
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