1. Linda Denise Blair was born on January 22,1959 and is an American actress and activist.
31 Facts About Linda Blair
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Linda Blair reprised the role in two sequels: Exorcist II: The Heretic and The Exorcist: Believer.
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Linda Blair has starred in exploitation films, including Hell Night, Chained Heat, and Savage Streets.
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Linda Denise Blair was born January 22,1959, in St Louis, Missouri, to James Frederick and Elinore Blair.
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Linda Blair has an older sister, Debbie, and an older brother, Jim.
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When Linda Blair was two years old, her father, a Navy test pilot-turned-executive recruiter, took a job in New York City, and the family relocated to Westport, Connecticut.
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Linda Blair's mother worked as a real-estate agent in Westport.
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Linda Blair secured a contract at age six for a series of print ads in The New York Times.
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Linda Blair started acting with a regular role on the short-lived Hidden Faces daytime soap opera.
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In 1972, Linda Blair was selected from a field of 600 applicants for her most notable role as Regan, the possessed daughter of a famous actress, in William Friedkin's The Exorcist.
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In 1977, Linda Blair reprised her role as Regan in the Exorcist sequel, Exorcist II: The Heretic, garnering a Saturn Award nomination for Best Actress of 1978.
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Linda Blair starred in a number of financially successful low-budget horror and exploitation films throughout much of the 1980s.
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Linda Blair starred opposite Peter Barton and Vincent Van Patten in the slasher film Hell Night, followed by roles in the women-in-prison film Chained Heat, playing a teenager in a women's prison, and the exploitation thriller Savage Streets, in which she plays the lead of a female vigilante street gang who targets male rapists.
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In 1985, Linda Blair starred again in another women-in-prison feature titled Red Heat, playing a prisoner of war in West Germany.
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Linda Blair appeared in several Australian B-movies in the early 1990s, including Fatal Bond and Dead Sleep.
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In 1996, Linda Blair reunited with director Wes Craven for a cameo role as a reporter in Scream, In 1997 she starred in a Broadway revival of Grease, playing Rizzo.
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Linda Blair appeared in critic Mark Kermode's 1998 BBC documentary The Fear of God, included as a special feature on the DVD of The Exorcist.
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Linda Blair is on the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society operation's board of advisors.
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Linda Blair appeared the following year in the documentary Confessions of a Teenage Vigilante, discussing her role as Brenda in Savage Streets.
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Linda Blair appeared in the 2011 Rick Springfield documentary Affair of the Heart, and was a panelist in a 2011 episode of The Joy Behar Show.
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In 2022, Linda Blair competed in season eight of The Masked Singer as "Scarecrow" which resembled a pumpkin-headed scarecrow.
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In October 2023, Linda Blair reprised the role of Regan MacNeil during a cameo in The Exorcist: Believer.
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In January 2025, Linda Blair revealed that she was working on a memoir along with her intentions to restart her acting career.
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At age 15, Linda Blair dated Australian singer Rick Springfield, 25 years old at the time, whom she met during a concert at the Whisky a Go Go.
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Between late 1979 and mid-1981, Linda Blair dated Styx guitarist Tommy Shaw.
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Linda Blair dated Jim Dandy Mangrum of band Black Oak Arkansas.
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Linda Blair liked getting high and getting down as much as I did.
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Linda Blair pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of conspiracy to possess cocaine, in exchange for three years' probation.
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Linda Blair was required to make at least twelve major public appearances to tell young people about the dangers of drug abuse.
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Linda Blair was a vegetarian for 13 years, before becoming a vegan in 2001.
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In 2014, Linda Blair revealed that she was treated for an umbilical hernia.