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Knots Landing star Lar Park Lincoln, who featured unforgettably as the scheming femme fatale Linda Fairgate, has died aged 63.
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 TV shows 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.
Knots Landing star Lar Park Lincoln, who featured as the unforgettable scheming femme fatale Linda Fairgate, has died aged 63; pictured in 1990
Off and on from 1987 to 1991, Lincoln featured on Knots Landing as the femme fatale Linda Fairgate (left), pictured on the show with her rival Paige Matheson (Nicollette Sheridan, right)
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.’
She then landed her fan favorite role on Knots Landing as Linda Fairgate, the scenery-chewing blonde bombshell, whom she played off and on from 1987 to 1991.
Linda starts off married to Eric Fairgate (Steve Shaw), whom she leaves for his brother Michael Fairgate (Patrick Petersen), only to get board of him and stray with a string of men including her boss Greg Sumner (William Devane).
Eventually, the character’s machinations catch up to her, and she is murdered by the man with whom she has her last explosive affair, Brian Johnston (Philip Brown).
