| abstract | - Cameron is a fictional character on the FOX television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which is a spin-off of the Terminator film franchise. Cameron first appeared in the series' pilot episode as an unknown model of Terminator — a fictional type of cyborg envisioned as a soldier and assassin. She is portrayed by actress Summer Glau who, in 2008, won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television for her performance. Although canonically referred to as Cameron Phillips, she used that surname only in the pilot episode. Since then, she generally poses as John Connor's sister and, accordingly, uses the same false surname used by the Connors at any given time. In the second season, that name is Baum, an homage to L. Frank Baum, whose novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Sarah used to read to John when he was a young boy. Cameron is from the apocalyptic future described in the timeline of the Terminator universe, in which a computer system, Skynet, launches a nuclear holocaust and wages war against a rebellion led by John Connor. In the pilot, Cameron is sent from her time to 1999 to time travel with John and his mother, Sarah, to 2007 and stop Skynet's creation. Cameron's role is that of John's guardian, much like Arnold Schwarzenegger's characters in the second and third Terminator films.
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