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Actor: Heather Donahue

Heather Donahue played the lead in The Blair Witch Project, and the cast were given only outlines and left in the woods with the camera, with the crew leaving instructions in film canisters. The improvised nature of the performances is why the film worked. She left acting and wrote a memoir about becoming a cannabis grower.

The Blair Witch Project (1999) film posterHeather Donahue

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Three student filmmakers documenting a Maryland witch legend get lost in the woods, in the found-footage horror pioneer. The Blair Witch Project is Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez's 1999 American found-footage horror film depicting three student filmmakers who disappear in…

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