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Lt. Robin "Flint" Peters
The
character | The actress | Quotations
Unfortunately (for me and
all other Flint fans) Lt. Peters wasn't able to win the contest;
at least the third place isn't that bad after all. Flint received
10 votes, including mine, and sometimes she was also indicated as
the "second pick" by other WC fans.
Flint is 32 (in the "Heart
of the Tiger" novel she's younger, around 25 years
old), she was probably born on Earth and then went with
her family, when she was still a girl, to Locanda. Many
in Flint's family have piloted fighters: her father, her
grand-father and also her brother David, who died in a
fight against the Kilrathi. It was for this lattest
reason that she fought an almost personal war against the
Cats, in order to make sure she could avenge her brother.
Flint has a dynamic character hidden below a rational and
cool exterior, she's a real good pilot, but her
performance can be influenced easily by her mood. To my
deepest regrets she wasn't back in Prophecy, maybe due to
the fact that in the "Heart of the Tiger" novel
the authors of the book had the bad idea of making her
get killed by Prince Thrakhath, during the Temblor bomb
strike :˜( ; so, although Origin claimed that the
books didn't contain any official development of the
story, they preferred to call back Rachel instead of
Flint (damn, at least they should have called back
Panther...).
Jennifer
MacDonald was raised all over the U.S.and Canada and has
traveled all over the world. At the tender age of
sixteen, after graduating high school, she enlisted in
the U.S. Army where she was trained as an Arabic
Linguist. She attended su rvival and jump schools and was
sent to work all over the Middle East as a cryptologic
"voice interceptor". She has also worked for
various government organizations as a translator. She
speaks standard Arabic, Egyptian, Spanish and some
French. Making documentary films while in the Army
encouraged MacDonald to get into film-making after her
departure from the service. While working in film
production in San Francisco, she got the acting bug.
MacDonald got her start in San Francisco as part of a
twelve person theater ensemble called "Lightfoot,
" a multicultural, multi-ethnic group of actors
dedicated to performing cutting edge material. Since
arriving in Los Angeles three years ago, MacDonald has
appeared as a guest star on several TV shows, including
"The Adventures of Brisco County Junior, "
"Dream On", "Red Shoe Diaries" and
most recently "Land's End" with Fred Dryer. She
has a knack for attracting interesting, offbeatmaterial
like the Showtime original movie "Dead
Weekend." MacDonald stars opposite Steven Baldwin as
a homicidal, multilingual Alien from the planet
"Claire" who needs to have sex in order to
replenish her life energies :). In the psychological
thriller "Shades of Black, " she plays a naive,
young pro-bike racer stalked by a schizophrenic
performance artist. MacDonald also stars as a fighter
pilot opposite Mark Hamill in "Wing Commander III,
" the most popular CD Rom in history. MacDonald has
studied with Jeff Corey, Brian Reese, and with teachers
from ACT San Francisco and Seattle Rep. In addition to
working theatrically in San Francisco, MacDonald has
written and performed in a series of original one act
plays about the Middle East. She also has a passion for
martial arts and trap and skeet shooting, both of which
she has done all her life. (Actress biography from IMDb)
Berserker79:
She's cute, she's intelligent and she knows how to fly a
fighter.
Jacknife: She's awesome... and a red head to boot.
Seriously, she's gorgeous and a good actress. I hope
she's in a future Wing Commander!