Linda Hayden

Linda Hayden
Born	Linda M. Higginson 19 January 1953 (1953-01-19) Stanmore, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Occupation	actor

Handbill for the Gordon Craig Theatre's 1983/4 pantomime, "Cinderella". Linda Hayden's high position in the cast demonstrates she remained a well-known actress more than a decade after her initial screen success.

Linda Hayden (born 19 January 1953 in Stanmore, Middlesex) is an English film and television actress, best known for her roles in 1970s British horror films and sex comedies.

Career

Hayden made her fim debut at the age of 15 in the controversial Baby Love (1968), playing a schoolgirl who seduces her adoptive family. She next featured in two horror films; playing Alice Hargood in Hammer's Taste the Blood of Dracula, (1970), followed by a memorable performance as the demonically possessed Angel Blake in Blood on Satan's Claw (1971), made by Tigon. In 1972, she played a pregnant teenage hitchhiker in Something to Hide, driving Peter Finch to murder and madness.

Hayden appeared opposite Robin Askwith, her then-boyfriend, in the popular sex comedies Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974), Confessions from a Holiday Camp (1977) and, with Fiona Richmond, in Let's Get Laid (1978); as well as the obscure cult movie Queen Kong (1976). She also shared the stage with Askwith, in Richard Harris and Leslie Darbon's farce Who Goes Bare. Hayden and Richmond had previously appeared together in the thriller Exposé (1976), which was known as Trauma in the USA and House on Straw Hill in Australia.

Following a brief role in The Boys from Brazil (1978), Hayden concentrated on stage and television work, such as the thriller Underground at Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre and London's Prince of Wales Theatre in 1983, as well as a 1997 episode of The Bill.

Now semi-retired, she featured as Mrs Brown in Martin Kemp's 2009 remake of Exposé, with Jane March playing Linda — Hayden's role in the 1976 original.

Filmography

• Baby Love (1968)
• Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
• Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)
• La Redada (1971)
• Something to Hide (1972)
• Night Watch (1973)
• Vampira (1974)
• Madhouse (1974)
• Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974)
• Exposé (1976)
• Queen Kong (1976)
• Confessions from a Holiday Camp (1977)
• Let's Get Laid (1978)
• The Boys from Brazil 1978)
• Exposé (2009)

External links

• Linda Hayden at the Internet Movie Database