<Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Relatives </Th> <Td> Ed Thrasher (uncle) </Td> </Tr> <P> Lindsay Jean Wagner (born June 22, 1949) is an American film and television actress, model, author, singer, acting coach, and adjunct professor . Wagner is best known for her portrayal of the 1970s television leading female science fiction action character Jaime Sommers, who takes on special high - risk government missions using her superhuman bionic powers in the American television series The Bionic Woman (1976--1978). She first played this role on the 1970s American television series The Six Million Dollar Man . The Jaime Sommers character also became a pop culture icon of the 1970s . In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she reprised the role in several bionic reunion television movies . </P> <P> Wagner earned an Emmy Award in 1977 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Dramatic Role for her portrayal of Jaime Sommers in The Bionic Woman television series . </P>

Actress who played the bionic woman in the seventies