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Needs to be in more movies...
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Great actress she done a great job in all four films I've seen her in namely The Exorcist, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Hell Night & Savage Streets.
The Exorcist & Savage Streets are definites in my top 100 films of all time.
Not forgetting 'Chained Heat'
shareJust seen another film of hers, Summer of Fear (1978). Another brilliant performance from her.
shareWhat happened to Linda Blair, the actress that played Regan MacNeil, the girl in 'The Exorcist'?
https://www.quora.com/What-happened-to-Linda-Blair-the-actress-that-played-Regan-Macneil-the-girl-in-The-Exorcist/answer/Jon-Mixon-1
The Exorcist was a huge hit - Blair was typecast early, and unfortunately for her it wasn’t for roles that would help her later in life. Had The Exorcist been a minor hit, it’s possible that she could have experienced a broader career. However it was “too big”, and Blair has been living with that for her entire life.share
The Exorcist II: The Heretic was a major bomb - The follow-up to the original film is possibly one of the worst films ever made. The film pretty much killed Blair’s burgeoning career and certainly didn’t help her costar Richard Burton’s flagging film stardom, either. Had she not made this film or had it been made later, her career might have been salvaged. It wasn’t and neither was her career.