10 Best One-Hit-Wonder Actors

10. Linda Blair

Linda Blair's long career began in 1970 with The Way We Live Now, but it was her performance as Regan MacNeil in 1973's The Exorcist that made her a household name. That movie was iconic and stands as one of the most important films of the genre, but it didn't help Blair land many roles.

Blair's work on The Exorcist was criticized as being blasphemous, but that was more of a criticism of the movie as a whole. Despite this, she was able to continue working as an actress throughout the 1970s, '80s, and into well into the '10s. Most of her work in the 2000s has been on shorts, television films, and documentaries.

All-told, Blair has dozens of film and television roles spanning nearly 50 years of working in Hollywood, but she's really only known for two things: her work on The Exorcist, and the fact that she's dated Rick Springfield, Rick James, and a host of other musicians—you have to admit, she's got a type.

Blair's most recent film role was as Helen Harris in Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel, and she appeared as herself in the episode "Scream Queens" of RuPaul's Drag Race, which only helped to reinforce her one-hit-wonder status as it relates to The Exorcist.