From the age of six, Linda Blair was in the spotlight both as a model and as an aspiring actress.  She started her career with commercials and appeared in over 75 by the age of 12.  In 1973 Linda got her big break starring in the classic horror film, “The Exorcist” after winning out over six hundred others who auditioned for the role of the demon possessed child.
 
The film is based on William Peter Blatty's best-selling novel, The Exorcist and was directed by William Friedkin who had recently won an Oscar for directing “The French Connection”.  The cast also included Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller, Max Von Sydow and Kitty Winn.
 
The film was nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Blair for Best Supporting Actress; and she won both a Golden Globe and People's Choice Award for that role. 
 
She and her family received death threats after “The Exorcist” premiered and Warner Brothers actually had to hire the police to live with the Blair family for the next 6 months. The culprit was never caught.
 
She ranked #9 on the American Film Institute's villains list of the 100 years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains and was #36 on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Kid Stars".
 
Following the success of “The Exorcist” Blair appeared in several controversial television and movie roles including “Born Innocent” and “Sarah T...Portrait Of a Teenage Alcoholic” which were the highest rated made-for-TV movies the years they were originally broadcast.   She was also featured in the hugely successful films “Airport 1975” and the disco cult classic “Roller Boogie”.
 
She was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Actress for her performance in the Exorcist sequel, “Exorcist II: The Heretic” which co-starred Richard Burton.
 
Linda Blair continues her career with appearances in the British teen show “L.A. 7” featuring the pop group S Club 7 and continues to act in
both television  independent movies. She also hosted Fox Family's series “Scariest Places On Earth”.  One of Blair's latest appearances occurred in the Supernatural episode “The Usual Suspects” where a brief homage was paid to her Exorcist fame in the closing dialogue of the episode, when Dean Winchester says that she "looks familiar" and expresses a craving for pea soup.
 
Blair’s personal accomplishments include establishing “The Linda Blair World Heart Foundation”, which advocates the rescue and adoption of animals.  She has won numerous awards for her work as an animal rights activist as well as lending her name to help stop animal abuse all over the world.

 

Our very popular series of celebrity events often includes a table in our lobby where you can briefly meet the stars of some of your favorite films, get their autograph or a posed photograph with them.

These events are very expensive to stage and most celebrities are paid for their personal appearances including all first class expenses.

These events are often heavily attended and we always suggest that you arrive early.  Celebrities are generally scheduled to arrive one hour prior to the first scheduled showing of their film.  They may or may not be available to the public after a screening so we always suggest that you purchase a souvenir and meet them prior to entering the auditorium.  Your early arrival also helps ensure that you can enjoy the widest selection of seats when you watch the film. You must have purchased an admission ticket to get in the line to meet our guests.

For some extraordinarily popular events we have to run select films in more than one auditorium, so our guests will appear in person in the largest auditorium and we will feed live video of their greeting into secondary auditoriums before we roll the film.  Seating is always on a first come first serve basis so you may or may not be in the same auditorium as our guest during an interview, although you will not miss anything when viewing it live on our big screen in an adjacent auditorium.  If space permits, there may be standing room during an interview.

Depending on the length of the line and scheduling, our guest may or may not entertain questions from the audience and introduce the film from the stage.  This is entirely discretionary and varies from event to event.  Some of our guests make an extraordinary effort to ensure a great experience and are very talkative, although this may back up the seating for later show times. Sometimes the lines to get autographs and pictures are so long that timing will not permit the actor to make an in-theater appearance at all.  We try to please as many people as possible and hate to turn away people from the line or the shows, although this will at times wreak havoc with the show schedule.

In most instances, there is a charge per autograph, whether it is a photograph or item from here at the table or something that you bring with you.  You must have purchased an autograph in order to get a posed photograph with our guest.  In some cases, we do have a professional photographer set up to take a picture with our guest, also at a nominal charge, and in those instances you may only get a posed photograph through this system.  We do take credit cards and there is also an ATM on premise.

You may always take a candid unposed photograph of our guest from elsewhere in the lobby at no additional charge.