Linda Blair

Linda Linda LindaLinda Blair was five years old at the time she became the first child actress to be cast in The Exorcist. She had previously worked as a model over three years prior to her role as the child possessed, Regan. Linda won the Golden Globe and was on course to win an Academy Award. However, after it was revealed that Mercedes McCambridge had dubbed the demon voice, and that the 8 second scenes were performed by a stunt-double The dream of a career on the A-list did not materialize. In the following years, Linda was not a problem securing leading roles in a variety of films, among them the highly successful television films Born Innocent (1974) (the #1 TV movie of that year) and Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic (1975), as well as the Exorcist sequel Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977). The actress was detained and sentenced to three years of probation following people in her circle pressured her to buy cocaine at the age of aged 18. Linda was removed from Hollywood following the widely-publicized drug bust. Her career soon became limited to B films and TV appearances.

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