• Name: Linda Blair
  • Date of Birth: January 22, 1959
  • Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Mini-bio: From the age of six, Linda Blair had to get used to the spotlight, both as a model and in motion pictures, when out of 600 applicants she got picked for the role of Regan, the possessed child, in Th...( read more)e Exorcist (1973). Linda seemed to be set to take the Academy Award for that role, but when it leaked how little of the possessed child she actually had been (dubbed voice by Mercedes McCambridge and liberal use of a dummy) that dream broke, and with that disappointment probably came the first blow to what should have been a sure road to stardom. Over the next few years she had no trouble finding leading roles in a number of pictures, mostly as some kind of abused child (13-year-old alcoholic, rape victim, to mention a few), but the early attention brought with it life in the fast lane and Linda, as quite a few others in recent years, hadn't had the time to learn how to handle it, and drugs, a stream of unsteady relationships and other factors almost brought her career to an end
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Replace this image with an actor photoLinda Blair mini-bio: From the age of six, Linda Blair had to get used to the spotlight, both as a model and in motion pictures, when out of 600 applicants she got picked for the role of Regan, the possessed child, in The Exorcist (1973). Linda seemed to be set to take the Academy Award for that role, but when it leaked how little of the possessed child she actually had been (dubbed voice by Mercedes McCambridge and liberal use of a dummy) that dream broke, and with that disappointment probably came the first blow to what should have been a sure road to stardom. Over the next few years she had no trouble finding leading roles in a number of pictures, mostly as some kind of abused child (13-year-old alcoholic, rape victim, to mention a few), but the early attention brought with it life in the fast lane and Linda, as quite a few others in recent years, hadn't had the time to learn how to handle it, and drugs, a stream of unsteady relationships and other factors almost brought her career to an end

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  • awsomegirl411
    i love you.you are so awsome.i wish i was you.
    posted 26 days ago
  • GoodPossum
    Site for Linda Blair

    http://www.lindablair.com/
    posted 214 days ago
  • katyacathleen
    hey whats up your awesome in a movie the exercist haha awesome
    posted 347 days ago
  • daftdeb69
    did anyone see her small part in scream?? she was a reporter
    posted 563 days ago
  • MovieGeek212
    I feel kind of bad for Linda Balir since she has to apend her whole life being type-casted as that demon girl form The Exorcist, but at the same time i wouldnt like to see her anything but that one famous role
    posted 576 days ago

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