Linda Hayden's first role was at the age of 15, in the 1968 film Baby Love, in which she plays a schoolgirl who is seduced by both the father and the son of her adoptive family. This was a stepping stone to her later roles, as a luscious vamp in several subsequent horror productions, notably Blood on Satan's Claw. She appeared in nude scenes in both movies, although she was fifteen and seventeen respectively at the time of filming. She was also seen in The Boys from Brazil (1978).