Theresa Saldana

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Theresa Saldana (born August 20, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actress, best known for her work in motion pictures and television.

Saldana is best known for her role in the 1980 feature film Raging Bull and in the 1990s television series The Commish.

In 1982, Saldana was the stalking victim of Arthur Richard Jackson who stabbed her 10 times at the front door of her home in broad daylight, almost killing her. Jackson got Saldana's address by hiring a private investigator to obtain the unlisted phone number of Saldana's mother. Jackson then called Saldana's mother and posed as Martin Scorsese's assistant, saying he needed Saldana's residential address in order to contact her for replacing an actress in a movie role in Europe. Jackson's approach to Saldana would later inspire stalker Robert John Bardo to also hire a private investigator to contact Rebecca Schaeffer.

Saldana would have died had it not been for a bottled water deliveryman, Jeff Fenn, who came down from the second floor of an apartment building and subdued her attacker. Saldana eventually recovered and founded the Victims for Victims organization. The 1990 anti-stalking law and the 1994 Drivers Privacy Protection Act came into being partly as a result of the attack.