Linda Blair

Linda Linda LindaLinda Blair, who was just five years old when she was born, needed been conditioned to be on the radar. In the beginning, she was a child model before becoming an actor, she won the role as Regan the girl who was possessed, out of 600 candidates, in The Exorcist, (1973). Linda was awarded the Golden Globe and was on way to winning the Academy Award. However, the news broke the fact that Mercedes McCambridge had dubbed the demonic voice and 8 seconds were acted by a stunt double, the dream of a career on the A-list did not materialize. Over the next few years she didn't have any trouble getting the lead role in a range of films, among them her highly successful television movies Born Innocent (1974) (the #1 TV movie of that year) as well as Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic (1975) in addition to an Exorcist sequel Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977). In the end, she was forced by peers into taking cocaine prior to the age of 18 it triggered being arrested and later sentenced to three years of probation. Linda was placed on blacklist by Hollywood after the highly-publicized drug bust. She soon found her career only limited to B movies as well as guest television appearances.

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