Music Trivia -> Singers Who Act -> P
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.
Name | Notable Song Credits | Comments & Submittor Name | ||
| Patrick Stump | Law & Order | Stump played 'Marty Dressler' in the episode 'Darkness'. I think he was pretty good. - Amanda | ||
| Paul Simon | One Trick Pony | - oldsongs | ||
| Phil Collins | Miami Vice, Buster | Along with having alot of his songs played throughout the series, he played in an episode called "Phil the Shill". Was also in a movie about a bank robber in the star role. - Brad Johnson | ||
| Phil Collins | Buster | I was surprised more by his cursing than his acting. - britrock | ||
| Placebo | Velvet Goldmine | Brian Molko of Placebo appeared briefly in Velvet Goldmine, as the lead singer of 'The Flaming Creatures', a glam rock band, covering T-Rex's '20th Century Boy'. Steve Hewitt, Placebo's Drummer, also played in The Flaming Creatures, and Stefan Ostall appeared as Polly Small's bassist. - MissPie | ||
| Prince | Purple Rain; Under The Cherry Moon | His Purpleness did a good job playing basically himself once--but not twice. - Agrimorfee |
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