The Usual Suspects

From the age of six, Linda Blair had to get used to the spotlight, both as a model and in motion pictures, when out of 600 applicants she got picked for the role of Regan, the possessed child, in The Exorcist (1973). Linda seemed to be set to take the Academy Award for that role, but when it leaked how little of the possessed child she actually had been (dubbed voice by Mercedes McCambridge and liberal use of a dummy) that dream broke, and with that disappointment probably came the first blow to what should have been a sure road to stardom.

Credits include: House of Wax, Friday the 13th, Supernatural, Gilmore Girls and Cry_Wolf

Credits include: Backdraft, Summer Catch, Iron Eagle, The Heavenly Kid and Promised Land

Credits include: The Boys, Supernatural, My Bloody Valentine 3-D, Batman: Under the Red Hood and Smallville