 Click to View Photos of Linda Blair | Linda Denise Blair is an American actress and activist. She is best known for playing the possessed child Regan in the horror film The Exorcist , for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe and People's Choice Award. Blair reprised her role in Exorcist II: The Heretic , for which she was nominated for a Saturn Award.
Blair would go on to star in numerous controversial television films, such as Born Innocent , Sarah T. – Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic , and Stranger in Our House , before establishing herself as a sex symbol in the musical film Roller Boogie . The 1980s saw her starring in numerous horror and exploitation films, including the slasher Hell Night , the prison drama Chained Heat , the Grindhouse cult thriller Savage Streets , and the horror Grotesque .
Throughout the 1990s, Blair appeared in various independent films and B movies, as well as several television credits. She was the host of the Fox Family reality series Scariest Places on Earth , had a guest role on the dark fantasy series Supernatural , and had regular appearances on the Animal Planet docudrama series Pit Boss .
In addition to her acting credits, Blair has publicly supported various charitable causes, particularly animal rights. In 2004, she founded the Linda Blair WorldHeart Foundation, which serves to rehabilitate and adopt rescue animals. A vegan, Blair published her book Going Vegan! in 2001.Full name: Linda Blair Born: January 22, 1959Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri, USA |
