Linda Hamilton is joining the cast of Stranger Things for the fifth and final season. Netflix announced Hamilton’s casting during the streamer’s fan event in São Paulo, Brazil on Saturday.
No details have been revealed regarding Hamilton’s role. Hamilton is best known as Sarah Connor in the Terminator franchise, most recently starring in 2019’s Terminator: Dark Fate.
She was nominated for both an Emmy and two Golden Globe awards for her work in the CBS series Beauty and the Beast and received her third Golden Globe nomination for her performance in USA Network’s A Mother’s Prayer.
Hamilton is repped by Innovative Artists. It’s unclear when Stranger Things 5 will debut on Netflix, given that production was pushed due to the ongoing writers strike.
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