How Old Was Linda Blair In The Exorcist

Actress Linda Blair caught her breakout role playing a possessed 12-year-old in The Exorcist, although the actress herself was older. The original Exorcist movie, based on the novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty, is a bona fide horror masterpiece. The film follows a mother who must orchestrate an exorcism after her daughter, Regan MacNeil, becomes possessed by a demonic entity. The controversial film is widely considered one of the scariest horror movies of all time, owing in part to Blair’s star-making central performance.