'The Bionic Woman': The Cast Then and Now

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Lindsay Wagner

Lindsay Wagner: The leading role in the series, “Jaime Sommers” first appeared on ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’ and was later given her own show as ‘The Bionic Woman’. Her role earned her an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Dramatic Role in 1977. Wagner started her career in 1971 and notably appeared on two episodes of ‘The Rockford Files’, an appearance which led to her being cast for the role of “Jaime Sommers” in 1975.

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Lindsay Wagner

Wagner was still active in the 2000s, appearing in various TV shows such as ‘Warehouse 13’, ‘NCIS’, ‘Grey’s Anatomy’, and even tried new technology and did voice acting for a video game for the first time in 2018. She was the voice of “Bridget” and “Amelie” in ‘Death Stranding’. She also won the Humanitarian Award in 2019.

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Richard Anderson

Richard Norman Anderson: Anderson played the role of “Oscar Goldman”, boss of both “Steve Austin” (Lee Majors) and “Jaime Sommers” (Lindsay Wagner). He started his career in 1950 in various films and the TV series ‘Zorro’, after which he appeared in many different movies and shows, such as ‘Mission: Impossible’, ‘The Wild’, ‘Hawaii Five-O’, ‘The Fall Guy’, and many others.

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Richard Anderson

His last film was as narrator for ‘Kung Fu: The Legend Continues’, and as a spokesman for a Shell Oil Company commercial. Anderson had three children with Katharine Thalberg before passing away from natural causes in August 2017 at 91.

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Lee Majors

Lee Majors: “Steve Austin” in both ‘The Million Dollar Man’, and ‘The Bionic Woman’, was a very successful actor known for his roles as “Heath Barkley” in ‘The Big Valley’, and “Colt Seavers” in ‘The Fall Guy’. Before his role in ‘The Bionic Woman’, Majors was lucky enough to be selected among 400 young actors, including Burt Reynolds for the role in ‘The Big Valley’, which opened up his doors for other roles.

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Lee Majors

Majors also served as a voice actor for the videogame “GTA: Vice City” in 2002; after that, he played “Grandpa Max” in ‘Ben 10: Race Against Time’. From then on he has had many minor roles in different series such as ‘Rising Hope’, ‘Dallas’, and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’.

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Jennifer Darling

Jennifer Darling: Another actress that showed up in both series as “Peggy Callahan”. Curiously enough she was born Joan Darling but had to change her name for professional purposes given that there was already an actress with that name.

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Jennifer Darling

Darling (third L to R) has an impressive list of animations that she has participated in, mostly from the Western world, but has also worked on four anime series. Although in many she is an additional voice, she has participated in ‘Aladdin’, ‘Hello Kitty’ (anime), ‘Tenchi Muyo!’ (anime), ‘G.I. Joe: The Movie’, ‘Iron Man’, ‘Brother Bear’, ‘Lilo & Stitch’, ‘A Bug’s Life’, ‘Toy Story’, and many others.

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Martha Scott

Martha Scott: “Helen Elgin” in the series. She had a great career starting in 1934 after college, playing in many stage productions. In 1938 she played a role in ‘Our Town’ which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. She sadly passed away in 2003 at 90 and did not take many recent pictures.

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Ford Rainey

Ford Rainey: Amazingly enough, “Jim Elgin” was one of his last roles after a very successful career that started in 1939-1949. He appeared in ‘White Heat’, ‘Perfect Strangers’, ‘Two Rode Together’, ‘40 Pounds of Trouble’, and ‘The Sand Pebbles’. He too did not take many pictures before passing away in 2005.

‘The Bionic Woman’ was a television show that first aired in 1976 as a spinoff of the popular series ‘Six Million Dollar Man’. It had three seasons, from 1976 to 1978, the first two aired through ABC, and the last on NBC.

'The Bionic Woman':The Cast Then and Now

According to the official NBC description, ’The Bionic Woman’ was the fifth-most-watched show of the 1975-76 season, and it gained worldwide acclaim, especially in the U.K., where it was viewed in millions of homes. The series spawned three spin-off television movies, and reruns of the show aired through the late '90s.

In the show, “Jaime Sommers”, played by Lindsay Wagner, is in a severe parachute accident and is saved by replacing different body parts with bionic implants. Let’s take a look back at the actors back in 1976 and now.