Linda Denise Blair is an American actress and activist. She played Regan MacNeil in the horror film The Exorcist, for which she won a Golden Globe Award and received a nomination for an Academy Award.
Did Linda Blair have a stunt double?
Eileen Dietz acted as Linda Blair’s stunt double, she played the more difficult and controversial parts of Regan in the Exorcist as Linda was too young.
The 1980s had her starring in numerous horror and exploitation films, including the slasher Hell Night (1981), the prison drama Chained Heat (1983), and the grindhouse cult thriller Savage Streets (1984).
Throughout the 1990s, Blair appeared in various independent films and B movies, as well as several television credits. She was the host of the Fox Family reality series Scariest Places on Earth (2000–2006) and had regular appearances on the Animal Planet series Pit Boss (2010–2012).
Blair is a prominent activist for the animal rights movement. In 2004, she founded the Linda Blair WorldHeart Foundation, a nonprofit organization that serves to rehabilitate and adopt rescue animals. A vegan, she co-authored the book Going Vegan! in 2001.