Linda Hayden

Linda Hayden is an English actress who trained at the Aida Foster stage school and built a career in 1970s British horror movies and sex comedies. Born in Stanmore, Middlesex, she made her screen debut as a teenager, playing a schoolgirl in Baby Love (1969), and went on to appear in Hammer's Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) and in The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971). She appeared opposite Robin Askwith in the Confessions comedies, among them Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974), and in Exposé (1976), a thriller banned in Britain as a video nasty. After a small part in The Boys from Brazil (1978), she worked mostly in theater and television, including The Professionals, Minder and The Bill, and took a stage role in Underground in Toronto and London. Semi-retired, she played Mrs Brown in a 2010 remake of Exposé and in 2023 wrote an introduction to the horror novel Satan's Lamp.