Pamelyn Ferdin voiced Fern Arable, the little girl who raises Wilbur the pig, in the 1973 animated film "Charlotte's Web". Ferdin was considered for the role of Regan MacNeil, the demon-possessed girl in the 1973 William Friedkin film "The Exorcist", but casting directors decided she was too well-known and cast the then-less-familiar actress Linda Blair. She withdrew from acting in the mid-1980s, but did voice the character of Shelley Kelley in the Kids' WB series "Detention" in 1999. After leaving her job as a public relations director in the mid-1990s, Ferdin began working for the Center for Animal Care and Control in
Regan MacNeil Regan is revealed to have psychic healing powers (the reason why the demon attacked her previously). For "The Exorcist III", Carolco Pictures had the idea of a grown up Regan who gives birth to possessed twins but it was abandoned and the story was switched to Blatty's novel "Legion" instead. John Carpenter was asked to direct "The Exorcist III", but backed out when he realized William Peter Blatty really wanted to direct himself and because of creative differences, however they remained friends. Regan McNeil appears in the television series "The Exorcist". As an adult she changed her name to Angela