'Overheated' Lindsay Lohan taken to hospital

Lindsay Lohan. Picture / Reuters

LOS ANGELES - Actress Lindsay Lohan was stricken by the hot weather on the set of her new movie Georgia Rule today and was taken to a Los Angeles-area hospital, a media report said.

The 20 year-old actress was "overheated and dehydrated," after spending more than 12 hours shooting in 40.5degC heat, her representative, Leslie Sloane-Zelnick, told the celebrity news show The Insider.

Lohan spent a couple of hours being treated, received a Vitamin B shot and was released from the hospital, Sloane-Zelnick said. The publicist could not immediately be reached by Reuters for further comment.

Lohan, who stars in director Robert Altman's current release A Prairie Home Companion, was filming scenes for the upcoming Georgia Rule, in which she portrays a rebellious teenager who is sent to live with her grandmother.

Sloane-Zelnick told Insider that Lohan is expected to be back at work on the set tomorrow.

Her sudden illness comes as the Los Angeles area swelters under a heat wave that has gripped California for the past several days, causing a number of deaths and pushing the state's power grid to the brink of failure.

- REUTERS