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Linda Denise Blair (born January 22, 1959) [1] [2] is an American actress and activist. Her portrayal of Regan MacNeil in the horror film The Exorcist (1973) established her in popular culture and as a scream queen, earning her a Golden Globe Award, as well as an Academy Award nomination.
Orson Welles called her "the world's greatest living radio actress". [2] She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her screen debut in All the King's Men (1949) and was nominated in the same category for Giant (1956). She voiced the majority of dialogue for demon Pazuzu in The Exorcist (1973). [1]
Regan MacNeil is a 12-year-old girl and the daughter of actress Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn).Regan is caught between her mother's grueling working schedule and the fact that her parents are in the process of an acrimonious divorce (her father is in Europe and is not seen in the film), and she has a older brother named Jamie but he died at the age of 3 because of an infection that wouldn't go ...
The 90-year-old actress, who earned one of the seminal 1973 horror film’s 10 Oscar nominations for playing the distressed mother of a possessed teenage girl (Linda Blair), had been opposed to ...
[Blatty died in 2017; ... Behind the scenes, though, The Exorcist's cast and crew struggled with Friedkin's intense demands during the course of the movie's famously strenuous shoot.
The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film directed by William Friedkin from a screenplay by William Peter Blatty, based on his 1971 novel.The film stars Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, and Linda Blair, and follows the demonic possession of a young girl and the attempt to rescue her through an exorcism by two Catholic priests.
Brianne Nicole Howey (born May 24, 1989) [1] [better source needed] is an American actress. She first began to attract attention with main roles in the Fox series The Exorcist (2016) and The Passage (2019) and a recurring role in the first season of The CW's superhero drama Batwoman (2019–2020) as Reagan Pye.
On July 26, 2017, it was announced by Deadline that Li would join as a series regular in the second season of the Fox television series The Exorcist as Rose Cooper. [7] On January 15, 2019, it was announced that Li had been cast in the series regular role of Jenny Wah on the Netflix supernatural crime drama series Wu Assassins. [8]