Sarah Connor (Terminator) - Terminator Film Series

Terminator Film Series

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, 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 alternate ending for Terminator 2 (available on the Ultimate Edition DVD) 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.

The tombstone shown in Terminator 3 reads 1959–1997. This birth year would make her age 24 or 25 during The Terminator. Note, however, that she and John were living "off the grid" in her adult years, routinely using false names, birthdates, inter alia. Also her tomb was really a weapons cache. Her death was described as a result of leukemia sometime after the original "Judgment Day" (August 29, 1997). Terminator 3 also changes John's age in the second film from 10 to 13, introducing contradictions in the dating of the films that cannot be reconciled to one timeline.