Wendie Jo Sperber

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Wendie Jo Sperber (September 15, 1958 — November 29, 2005) portrayed Linda McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy.

A scene in Back to the Future Part II involving her appearing as a hooker was canceled due to Sperber being pregnant at the time. As she could not appear, it was also decided that an adjacent scene with brother Dave McFly as a drunk would not be included because fans would wonder what happened to her.^[1] She was brought back for Back to the Future Part III, where she appeared briefly at the end of the film.

Back to the Future was the fourth film in which comedienne Sperber worked for Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale. She played the role of Beatles' fan Rosie Petrofsky in I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), Maxine Dexheimer in the film 1941 the following year, and "Nervous Nona" in Used Cars the year after that. She was then a regular on the TV series Bosom Buddies, with Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari, and in Hanks's film Bachelor Party, until being called back by Zemeckis and Gale for the role of Linda McFly.

Sperber was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997, and continued to work in television and film, as well as founding the cancer support center "weSPARK". After a remission, the cancer returned in 2002. She died at the age of 47 on November 29, 2005.

[edit] See also

• Wendie Jo Sperber on Wikipedia

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