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Piper Laurie is born (1932). Piper, a sexy leading lady of the 1960s, was lured out of early retirement by director Brian De Palma, who cast her as Margaret White, the demented mother of a telekinetic teen in the 1976 adaptation of Stephen King's Carrie. She garnered an Oscar nomination (the second of three) for that classic performance. Piper's other genre appearances include The Faculty (1998), Dario Argento's Trauma (1993), Return to Oz (1985), and Ruby (1977), in which she played the owner of a haunted drive-in theater. She was also featured in episodes of Beauty and the Beast, Dead Like Me, and the updated Twilight Zone. Piper was born Rosetta Jacobs in Detroit, Michigan.

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Linda Blair is born (1959). As a youngster, Linda earned international recognition and an Oscar nomination for her role as Regan MacNeil, the girl possessed by the devil himself in the classic big-screen adaptation of William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist (1973). Her subsequent credits include Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), Hell Night (1981), Witchery (1988), Grotesque (1988), The Chilling (1989), Zapped Again! (1990), the comic Repossessed (1990), and Sorceress (1994). Linda was born in St. Louis, Missouri.

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John Wesley Shipp is born (1956). John Wesley Shipp is an Emmy Award-winning American actor best known to genre fans for his performance in the short-lived 1990 television series The Flash as superhero Barry Allen. Shipp may also be a familiar face from the series Dawson's Creek on which he played Mitch Leery. His other notable roles include guest appearances on Fantasy Island, The Outer Limits and NYPD Blue; appearances on an assortment of soap operas; and roles in the movies The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter and Flash III: Deadly Nightshade. John was born in Norfolk, Virginia.

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SCIFIpedia Timeline for January 22