Linda Blair
Linda Blair was five years old when she was the youngest child actor to play The Exorcist. She had played the role of model for three years before she acted as the child-possessed Regan. Linda soon rose to international fame, won the Golden Globe, and seemed to be destined to win an Academy Award for that role until it became known that certain parts of the role weren't performed by the actress herself (the demonic voice was dubbed by Mercedes McCambridge, and eight seconds of a stunt dummy used) the film was cancelled, and with that disappointment probably came the first blow to what looked like the start of a successful career. The following years saw she managed to secure leading roles in an array of movies. The most notable of these were the television films Born Innocent and Sarah T. Sarah T. Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic along with Exorcist II - The Heretic. When she was peer pressured into buying cocaine when she was just of 18 it triggered an arrest and subsequent sentencing to three years ' probation. The widely-publicized bust for drugs caused Linda to be blacklisted by Hollywood and her acting profession was later reduced to B-movies and occasional TV appearances as a guest
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