The character develops greatly over the course of these productions, from a timid damsel in distress victim in the first film, to a wanted fugitive committing acts of terrorism, to hardened warrior and mother who sacrificed everything for the sake of her son's future and is on the verge of losing touch with her own humanity, and finally, reimagined as a young, headstrong heroine determined to control her own destiny. She was portrayed by American actress Linda Hamilton in the first and second films, and by English actress Lena Headey in the television series. English actress Emilia Clarke takes over the role in the fifth film, Terminator Genisys.
Publication Information
- Host : Sarah Connor
- Aliases : Sarah Baum, Sarah Reese, Suzanne Krieger, Karen, Sarah Gale
- Gender : Female
- Date of Birth : 1964
- Age : 20 (53 as she should be in 2017)
- Status : Alive
- Parents : name unmentioned (Father), name unmentioned (Mother)
- Children : John Connor (son)
- Relationships : Kyle Reese (love interest), Guardian (father figure)
- Franchise(s) : Terminator Genisys (2015)
- First Appearance : Terminator Genisys (2015)
- Affiliations : Resistance
- Created by : James Cameron
- Portrayed by : Linda Hamilton (The Terminator, Terminator 2 : Judgment Day, Terminator Salvation), Emilia Clarke and Willa Taylor (9-yr old) (Terminator Genisys)
Very little is known about Sarah's life prior to May 12, 1984. The Terminator film itself never specifies an age or birth date for Sarah Connor, although according to the original script (available on the Special Edition DVD), she was 19 years old. The film was primarily set on May 12–14, 1984, so based only on the script, her birth date would be between May 15, 1964, and May 11, 1965.
In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Sarah's psychologist states that she is 29. The film itself shows on screen that it takes place when John (born February 28, 1985) is age 10. These two on-screen references place Sarah's birth date some time between March 1, 1965, and February 25, 1967, making her age either 17, 18, or 19 during The Terminator. Many of the franchise's hardcore fans and writers of numerous "Terminator" novels have speculated that Sarah's exact date of birth is November 13, 1965, because this exclusive date is compatible with Sarah's given age in The Terminator and her stated age by the end of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles in the final episode "Born to Run".
The Terminator
In The Terminator, Sarah Connor is a young Los Angeles college student and waitress who finds herself pursued by a relentless cyborg killer, the Cyberdyne Systems Series 800 Model 101 Terminator (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger). She learns she is in danger from a televised report of two other identically-named Los Angeles women who were shot to death earlier that day. She is rescued from the Terminator by time-travelling soldier Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn), who explains that in the future, an artificial intelligence called Skynet will be created by military software developers to make strategic decisions.
Terminator 2 : Judgment Day
Sarah Connor next appears in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which occurs ten years after the events of The Terminator. She and John have been separated from each other: John is now ten years old and living in a foster home, and Sarah has been institutionalized in the Pescadero State Hospital. In the years between films, she has transformed herself from the mousy, timid woman seen at the beginning of the first movie into a muscled, ferocious warrior. In fact, the first image of her in the film is of her doing chin-ups on her hospital bed. After the death of Kyle Reese, Sarah took his warnings, and the responsibility of raising the hope of mankind, to heart. However, her fixation on the disaster and her fanatical desire to keep John safe has made her slightly mentally unstable and very violent, which is only aggravated by her fear and hatred of the T-800. She dropped off the grid to better protect herself and John.
Alternate ending
The alternate ending for Terminator 2: Judgment Day (available on the Ultimate Edition DVD and the Skynet Edition Blu-ray) shows Sarah alive and well on August 29, 2029. She is by then an elderly grandmother (and John is a Senator) in a world where Skynet was never able to start its war on humanity.
Terminator 3 : Rise of the Machines
In Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Sarah Connor has died, having succumbed to acute myeloid leukemia in 1997 (after the events of Terminator 2) after a three-year battle with the disease (see note below). As a result, she is not seen on-screen during the film but is mentioned by both John and the T-850. She lived long enough to see the original 1997 "Judgment Day" pass without incident, and she was cremated in Mexico. Her ashes were spread at sea. Never truly believing that they had beaten Skynet, her friends, in accordance with her will, store a cache of weapons in a casket for John to find at a false grave site in the event that Judgment Day was not averted and the Terminators returned.
Terminator Salvation
Linda Hamilton reprised her role as Sarah Connor in voiceovers warning of the future war (in the form of taped recordings for John) delivered throughout Terminator Salvation.
Terminator Genisys
In Terminator Genisys, Sarah is portrayed by Emilia Clarke and the film's director Alan Taylor's daughter Willa as Sarah's nine year old self. The story takes place in an alternate reality to the continuity of the first four films due to time travel, in which Sarah is orphaned at age nine as the result of a attack from a T-1000, and was raised by a reprogrammed T-800 Model 101 (Schwarzenegger) sent by an unknown party to be her protector.
Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Lena Headey portrays Sarah Connor as a major character in the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles television series based on the Terminator film series and franchise. She is the mother of John Connor who will one day become the leader of the human resistance. The authorities, however, see her as a deranged fugitive. This incarnation of Sarah Connor is an alternate future version of her film series counterpart, so technically her appearances in the first two Terminator films are considered part of this continuity, with Linda Hamilton theoretically portraying the younger version of this character.
First season
The series opens in 1999, a five years after the events of Terminator 2. Sarah and John Connor seem to be living a peaceful life. Living undercover after being blamed for the murder of Miles Dyson, Sarah is even engaged to paramedic Charley Dixon. However, Sarah, fearing discovery, and perhaps, as John suggests, the certainty of a stable life, forces the two of them to flee again. On his first day in his new school, John is attacked by a T-888 Terminator posing as a substitute teacher called Cromartie.
He escapes with the help of Cameron Phillips, a Terminator (in a Skynet-manufactured body that resembles a teenage girl) sent back in time (by the future John) to protect him. Sarah hears of the shooting and rushes to the school but is captured by Cromartie, who uses her to lure John into a trap. Again with the help of Cameron, they flee to a bank where resistance members have hidden the parts of a time machine. As Cromartie attacks them, the trio disappears into the year 2007.
Second season
In "Automatic for the People", Sarah worries that the likelihood of her contracting and dying of cancer has dramatically increased. In the same episode, Sarah meets John's new friend from his English class, Riley Dawson, and she is concerned about their friendship, because it potentially risks not only the family's safety from Skynet, but also Riley's safety. Sarah tries to understand the loneliness and isolation from people his own age that John is experiencing. In the next episode, Sarah and Derek aid Charley in rescuing his wife from Cromartie, but she dies from shrapnel injuries received in a bomb explosion. Although the Connors, Derek and Cameron do not attend her funeral, they do seem to mourn her death at the dinner table.
Other media
Novels
Sarah is living under the assumed name Suzanne Krieger (the German word for "warrior") in Paraguay, hiding as fugitives from the U.S. government with her son John. Dieter von Rossbach, a former Austrian counterterrorism operative and model for the Terminator, moves into the neighboring home. He is drawn to the Connors, and after Sarah tells him about the future war, they are attacked by a new T-800, created in the present by a new Terminator model, the I-950 Infiltrator. Realizing that Judgment Day was not averted, they attempt once again to stop Skynet's creation.
Comic book crossovers
With the success of T2, Sarah Connor would appear in the non-canonical Superman crossover Superman vs. The Terminator: Death to the Future (2000), a co-publication between Superman's publisher DC Comics and Terminator comic book license-holder, Dark Horse Comics. In the story, Sarah and John Connor join forces with Superman to take down Skynet and Superman's robotic enemy the Cyborg Superman.
When pulled into the future, Superman helps the older John, and calls on assistance from his friend Steel (John Henry Irons)) take down Skynet once and for all. In the past, John and Sarah receive assistance from Supergirl (Matrix), Superboy and Superman's nemesis, Lex Luthor, who though opposed to Superman is an ally of the human race against the machines. Skynet is ultimately destroyed when Superman detonates an EMP in Earth's atmosphere powerful enough to shut down all the machines.
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