Who played Sarah Connor , the Terminator 's main target , in the movie " Terminator " ?
Two beings from this era travel back in time to May 12 , 1984 : one is a Terminator ( Arnold Schwarzenegger ) , a cyborg assassin programmed to kill a Los Angeles woman named Sarah Connor ( Linda Hamilton ) ; the other is Kyle Reese ( Michael Biehn ) , a human resistance fighter sent to protect her .