Linda Blair

Linda Blair was a child model and actress before she took on the role of Regan In The Exorcist. She had been picked from 600 possible candidates. Linda Blair rose quickly to fame and won an award called the Golden Globe. She was scheduled to also win an Academy Award. But when the story broke that some part of the role was not actually performed by Linda (the evil voices were made up by actors and the eight seconds were filmed by an actor) the dream began to fall out of the window. Over the next few years she was able to secure the lead roles in a range of film, which included the wildly successful television series Born Innocent However, when she was pressured by peers to buying cocaine at the age of 18, this led to her being arrested which was followed by a sentence of three years of probation. This well-publicized drug bust led Linda to be barred from Hollywood as well as her professional career ended up being reduced to B-movies and sporadic TV guest appearances only.