Linda Denise Blair (born January 22, 1959) is an American actress and activist. She played "Regan MacNeil" in the 1973 horror film "The Exorcist", for which she won a Golden Globe Award and received a nomination for an Academy Award. The film established her as a horror icon and scream queen; she reprised the role in the 1977 sequel Exorcist II: The Heretic, for which she earned a nomination for a Saturn Award.

A self proclaimed "wild child", at age 15, Blair dated Australian singer Rick Springfield. He was 25 years old at the time, whom she met during a concert at the Whisky a Go Go", in Hollywood CA. She also dated "Deep Purple" bassist Glenn Hughes, and Neil Giraldo, guitarist and future husband of Pat Benatar. Between late 1979 and mid-1981, Blair dated "Styx" guitarist Tommy Shaw. Blair also dated Jim Dandy of "Black Oak Arkansas".

In a 1982 interview accompanying a topless pictorial in "Oui" magazine, Blair revealed that she found Rick James "very sexy". James, who was shown the piece by a friend, returned the compliment through an intermediary. They dated for two years and James wrote his hit song "Cold Blooded" about her.

Linda now runs the "Linda Blair WorldHeart Foundation", a non-profit organization dedicated to rescuing and rehabilitating abused, neglected, and abandoned animals. She works and lives on the 2-acre rescue sanctuary full-time in California.

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