Kristanna Loken’s Manager Said Terminator 3 Would Make Her Too Famous to Pump Her Own Gas — Instead, She Got Uwe Boll Movies. 23 Years Later, She’s Back

Nicknamed ‘Terminatrix’, Loken earned international fame and two Saturn Award nominations for her portrayal of T-X in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. But that was more than 20 years ago now, so what has she been doing since then? And with James Cameron now writing a new Terminator film, the franchise’s first female villain is worth another look. Back in the early 2000s, Kristanna Loken reportedly beat out thousands of other actresses for the coveted role of T-X. Even though the third installment of the Terminator franchise was met with mixed-to-positive reviews [Rotten Tomatoes: 70% critics, 46% audience], Loken’s menacing performance was generally praised as one of the highlights. RELATED: Schwarzenegger Said the Terminator Sequels Sucked — Now Cameron Is Making One Without Him After that, she went on to appear in BloodRayne (2005) and Lime Salted Love (2006) among other titles — and even started her own production company in 2013.

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