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Linda Blair

Linda Blair's biography

Linda Denise Blair is 63 years old actor born at St. Louis. Linda was born on Thursday 22nd of January 1959. Linda is often nicknamed as Linda Denise Blair, Linda Blair, Linda. According to year of birth 1959 she belongs to Boomers. Birthday on 22nd of January means she is Aquarius. Aquarius is an Airy sign. They are smart thinkers, social, communicative, independent and intelligent people.

Linda is native english speaker. Linda is white american. She is citizen of United States of America. She is protestant. Linda´s primary profession is to be actor. You can know her also as film actor. Linda is recently known as television actor.

Linda Blair's career

Linda´s main focus is to be actor. She is famous thanks to her role as Regan MacNeil in the horror film The Exorcist (1973), for which she won a Golden Globe Award and received a nomination for an Academy Award. You could see her also in Night Patrol.

Is Linda Blair gay ?

She is known to be straight.

Awards and competitions

Linda Blair's Awards

  • Linda has won numerous awards for her work as an animal rights activist from organizations such as P.E.T.A. and also lends her name to helping stop animal abuse around the world.
  • Won the Presidential Fitness Award during her early teens.

Linda Blair's Rankings

  • Her frightening turn as "Regan MacNeil" in The Exorcist (1973) was ranked #9 on the American Film Institute's villains list of AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains (2003).
  • Ranked #36 in VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Kid Stars".

Linda Blair's Nominations

  • She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for work The Exorcist in 1973
  • She was nominated for Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for work Hell Night in 1982
  • Linda was nominated for Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for work Chained Heat in 1984
  • Linda was nominated for Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for work Night Patrol in 1986

What else you don't know about Linda Blair ?

Her middle name is Denise.

What Linda Blair has done for a first time

  • She was the first choice for the role of Vasquez in Aliens (1986), but scheduling conflicts with Nightforce (1987) forced her to leave the movie.

Linda Blair's quotes

  • It was always very strange for me when I was young and would meet someone who geniunely seemed to be afraid of me. They couldn't separate me from the monster I became in a movie. You wouldn't believe how often people ask me to make my head spin around.
  • "I'm not doing this (film) as an art piece, I'm not doing it from my heart, as a statement of my beliefs or my philosophy. I'm working." Interview with The Los Angeles Times about Chained Heat (1983), 1983.
  • [on getting the role of "Reagan MacNeil" in The Exorcist (1973)] I wanted to be a princess. I wanted to be in Disney movies, I wanted to be in "Lassie," I wanted to be in "Flipper." I didn't want to be a monster.
  • Compassion and sharing: that's the true journey of the human spirit.
  • Not a day goes by that somebody doesn't say something about it, which is interesting. My life is possessed with "The Exorcist."
  • See also Other Works |  Publicity Listings |  Official Sites

Linda Blair's height, weight, body shape, eye color, hair color

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