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Music Trivia -> Singers Who Act -> Index
All too often, a performer gets it into their head that now they've reach some margin of fame in a band, they can also act! Some make the leap ok like Will Smith, others like Vanilla Ice are best left forgotten.
Latest Entries
The 20 most recent entries are listed below. There are 332 Singers Who Act entries on the site.
Name | Notable Acting Credits | Comments & Submittor Name | ||
| Phil Collins | A Hard Day's Night | Phil Collins was around 14 years old when he starred in this film. He was known locally as a child theater actor and his role in the play "Oliver" was greatly acclaimed. In this Beatles thriller Phil is just a face in a crowd, another guy in the audience watching the Beatles play live in an auditorium. - Beatle Baby | ||
| Phil Collins | Frauds | Phil stars in this dark comedy set in Australia as Roland, a fraudulent insurance agent hired by a couple who want to file a false claim. Roland is an absolute pest, he's greedy, always hounding his clients and loves to do acts of mischief just for the hell of it. He loves to pull pranks on others and laugh, IOW he likes to "fuck shit up". - Sussudio is My Girlfriend | ||
| Gloria Estefan | Music Of The Heart | Turned in a solid performance in a cast headed by Meryl Streep; pretty good company to keep up with! - JeffM | ||
| Tatyana Ali | Fresh Prince of Bel Air (TV) | Started singing as a kid; performed song "Make Up Your Mind" in a late-season episode of "Fresh Prince of Bel Air". During the final season of that show, she began preparing for an actual musical career, and finally released an album, 'Kiss The Sky', in 1998, at age 19. - Ed | ||
| Tom Petty | The Postman | Ok - Candace | ||
| Tim McGraw | The Blindside | A natural! - Amy | ||
| Willow Smith | Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008) | She seems fine for a hobo girl who pretended to be a boy. - Felicity Merriman | ||
| Katrina Elam | Pure Country 2: The Gift | - William Ransom | ||
| Alex Greenwald | played Seth Devlin in Donnie Darko | He's the lead singer in the group Phantom Planet - Mark Greenberg | ||
| Nat & Alex Wolff | The Naked Brothers Band (TV Show), Mr. Troop Mom (Special Guests), Monk (Alex), Peace, Love, and Misundrestanding (Nat) | - The Dudeman | ||
| Sting (Gordon Sumner) | Quadrophenia, The Bride, Brimstone and Treacle | - Tim Kramar | ||
| Chris Isaak | Little Buddha, Twin Peaks (not sure about this one) | Okay, I'm not sure about the second, but I'm fairly sure of it. Guess he had the looks for it. - Tim Kramar | ||
| Paul Simon | Annie Hall | He plays a record producer who charms Diane Keaton - Sutch | ||
| Jimmie Dale Gilmore | The Big Lebowski | He's great in his one scene as a bowler who pisses off John Goodman - Sutch | ||
| Dennis Wilson | Two-Lane Blacktop | The late Beach Boy. His co-star here was James Taylor. - Sutch | ||
| Cat Power | My Blueberry Nights | She plays a former girlfriend of Jude Law's - Sutch | ||
| Amy Grant | A Song From The Heart | Amy did a very good portrayal of a blind music teacher and cellist in this made for TV inspirational drama. - Bradley Olson | ||
| Carla Bruni | Midnight in Paris | - Rick O'Shea | ||
| Mac Davis | The Sting II | A 1983 flick with Davis as Jake Hooker, and Jackie Gleason as Fargo Gondorff. - Mickey D. | ||
| Justin Timberlake | The Social Network | That movie about Facebook - JeReMy |
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