BREAKING NEWS Knots Landing star Lar Park Lincoln dead at 63: Soap actress also featured in iconic horror franchise
Shortly after she began appearing on the soap opera in 1987, Lincoln also joined one of the most beloved horror franchises in the genre.
She acted in the 1988 film Friday The 13th Part VII: The New Blood, playing a telekinetic woman who faces off against the villainous Jason Voorhees.
Over the years, she also guest-starred on iconic television programs like Murder, She Wrote, and for years was a fixture on the home shopping channel QVC.
Although she has battled breast cancer in the past, at one point undergoing 17 surgeries in the space of five years, her cause of death remains undisclosed.
Her passing was announced Thursday by the Actors Audition Studios, a company she founded in her hometown of Dallas, Texas.
In a post on Facebook breaking the news, the firm noted that her 'family requests privacy' and added: 'In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The SAG-AFTRA Foundation or The Entertainment Community Fund.'
Lincoln was born to a military family in Dallas, and decided by the third grade that she wanted to act, she told the website Icon Vs. Icon.
She got her start as a model but 'always had my eye on acting,' featuring in commercials and taking classes to hone her skills in her dream profession.
Her big break came with the 1985 TV movie Children Of The Night, a movie about the founder of the real-life Los Angeles organization of the same name, which is dedicated to rescuing underage prostitutes and helping them restart their lives.
'I was playing a real girl's life story. She was a young teenage prostitute,' Lincoln recalled. 'That's where I had to learn, and what has guided me since the very beginning in 1985, that you can't be an artist if you are judging.'
Two years later, she landed her fan favorite role on Knots Landing as Linda Fairgate, the scenery-chewing blonde bombshell with a ruthless streak.
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Daily Mail
a day ago
- Daily Mail
He was a hairstylist to Hollywood stars like Frank Sinatra... but his legacy is tainted by murder
Anthony DiMaria was four years old, flipping through a family photo album on the living room sofa. Page after page, he admired smiling faces, vacations, birthdays - then he stopped. A striking black-and-white portrait stared up at him: his Uncle Jay. He was cool, composed and unmistakably alive. A wave of longing hit. He turned to his mother and asked, 'When can I see him again?' She froze. Her face drained of color. Then, softly, she said, 'Honey, you can't. He's in heaven.' What DiMaria didn't know then was that just months earlier, his uncle Jay Sebring had been murdered. He was one of seven people slaughtered by the Manson Family across two nights of terror in August 1969 - a rampage that became one of the most infamous crimes in American history. More than 50 years later, the horror of Sebring's fate still haunts DiMaria and his family. But what makes this time of year especially painful is not just the memory of what was lost, rather it is how the world chooses to remember it. 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