Missouri-born Linda Blair found her role as Regan in the great 1973 horror film The Exorcist to be easy as spitting up pea soup.
She had first worked as a model and had appeared in TV commercials prior to being cast as a young girl who had been possessed by evil. Blair flung her pre-pubescent body around with demonic fury, confounding the best efforts of a Catholic priest and scaring the heck out of audiences.
The 1977 sequel did as poorly as the original did well, probably harming Blair's career.
Between the two Exorcist films, she was in Airport and in 1981, she had a leading role in Hell Night. With spoof specialist Leslie Nielsen, she poked fun at the very film that made her a celebrity in Repossessed (1990).
Blair did a modest amount of TV work, with appearances on such shows as Murder, She Wrote; MacGyver; Married With Children; and Perry Mason.
For most of us, however, she will always be the wild-eyed, unpredictably demonic Regan in that bedroom in Georgetown.
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