Linda Blair

Linda was nominated for a TV Land Award for blockbuster movie of the week for the movie Born Innocent in 2006.

Linda has her own myspace.

Linda's first film was The Sporting Club.

Linda received a pony when she was ten years old.

Linda has one brother named Jimmy and one sister named Debbie.

Linda decided to take the role of Regan in The Exorcist because the money would allow her to take horseback riding lessons.

Linda was chosen from 600 applicants to play the role of Regan in The Exorcist.

As a child, Linda wanted to be a veterinarian.

Linda won a Golden Globe Award for best supporting actress in the movie The Exorcist in 1974.

Linda won the Presidential Fitness Award when she was a teenager.

Linda wears a size 6 1/2 shoe.

Measurements: 34C-24-34

Linda moved to Westport, Connecticut when she was just two years old.

Linda is the daughter of James and Elinore Blair.

Linda is 5 feet 2 inches tall.

Linda walks a mile with her horse and dogs every day. All of her pets were rescued, and once considered 'throwaways' that she owns. Her love of animals goes back to her early childhood when she was an avid reader of animal books, her favorite being The Black Stallion series.

Linda's spine was wrecked while filming The Exorcist, the equipment came loose that made her do all those wild movements on the bed. As she was whipped back and forth and lashed all over the place, the loose equipment kept slamming her in the back. She also credit accidents that happened on horseback, and a dirtbike accident as contributing factors to her chronic back problems.

Linda delivered her most persuasive adult performance to date as a trashy sweater girl similar of 1950s 'B' movie heroines like Beverly Michaels and Mamie Van Doren in Savage Streets.

Linda dated Wings Hauser after they met on the set of Bedroom Eyes II in 1990, their romance lasted about four years.

Linda authored a book about Veaganism, titling it Going Vegan!.

Linda has been awarded numerous awards for her work with P.E.T.A, lending her name to many of their causes.

Linda is a believer in homeopathic medicine over western practices, and is a strict Vegan.

Linda owns her own clothing line called Linda Blair's Wild West Collection.

Linda took to the stage in 1997, for a revival of the smash hit Grease, earning herself worldwide critical acclaim.

Linda has been an animal advocate for many years, active in charitable work to help prevent cruelty to animals with her own 'Linda Blair WorldHeart Foundation'.

Linda made an uncredited cameo appearance in the box office smash hit Scream in 1996.

Linda decided to reprise her Exorcist role in 1990 in a spoof film called Repossessed. The film was not a hit.

Linda became involved in a romantic relationship with singer Rick James in the 1980s. The affair was a passionate one, but she had to leave him when she could no longer handle his drug addiction. She wasn't supposed to be around drugs, as a condition of her probation terms on a prior arrest, he was compromising her freedom.

Linda's acting career fell into a slump in the 1980s. She appeared in a few minor roles, mostly with a horror or slapstick/parody theme. As a result, she returned her focus back to her first love, horses. She began riding and showing again, competing under aliases in showjumping events and winning numerous equestrian competitions.

Linda was arrested in December of 1977 for conspiring to buy and distribute cocaine and amphetamines. She eventually plead guilty to the posession charges and was fined. She also was placed on three years of court probation,instructed to appear in several ant-drug public service announcements on televison, and ordered into a nine month drug rehabilitation program.

Linda struggled with an uncontrollable weight gain in the mid 1970s, that was finally attributed to a hormone deficiency that once corrected, the weight disappeared.

Linda appeared in quite a few controversial movie roles, such as Sarah T...Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic, and Born Free.

Linda became romantically involved with pop superstar Rick Springfield when she was 15 years old and he was 25. Despite the ten year age difference, and the fact that she was a minor, Linda moved in with him.

Linda was up for the lead in The Exorcist against Pamelyn Ferdin, a well-known actress with very similar looks. Pamelyn had already appeared in Star Trek, The Odd Couple and Night Gallery, so when the director decided to go with an unknown actress, the part of Reagan went to Linda.

Linda had plans on becoming a physician, but instead accepted the lead role in The Exorcist because the money that she would earn would finance her horsemanship, her true passion.

Linda began her career at the age of five in Westport, Connecticut, modeling and acting in television commercials. She appeared in one for Gulden's Mustard that ran for years.

Linda was ranked #36 on VH1's list of The 100 Greatest Kid Stars.

Linda's frightening portrayal of Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist, was ranked #9 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villians.

Linda did all of her own skating in the 1979 film Roller Boogie and consequently developed bursitis in her hip.

Linda received death threats after the 1973 film The Exorcist premiered. Warner Brothers, the studio which released the film, hired police officers to live with the Blair family for 6 months.

Linda had appeared in 75 commercials and hundreds of magazine catalogues by the time she was 12.