Music Trivia -> Singers Who Act -> T
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 | ||
| Tab Hunter | Damn Yankees | "Young Love was a #1 hit for him in1957. Was a much better actor than singer - Barry Disbrow | ||
| Talking Heads/David Byrne | Stop Making Sense and True Stories | Stop Making Sense has been praised as one of the greatest concert films ever made. (I agree, too.) Directed by Jonathan Demme, its a cool concert movie. True Stories was Byrne's attempt at directing a movie, which is set in imaginary Virgil, Texas. -HeadsFan - HeadsFan | ||
| Tammin Sursok | Home And Away, The Young And The Restless | She shot into prominence as Danni Sutherland on Home & Away. After her character was written off, she launched her singing career. Now she is as Colleen on The Young And The Restless. - Rocky Mak | ||
| Taryn Manning (Boomkat) | Hustle and Flow, 8 Mile, Drive | I've only seen her on "Drive", but her interactions with Melanie Lynskey were very good. - Brian Kelly | ||
| Taylor Swift | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Hannah Montana: The Movie | - Rocky Mak | ||
| Tim McGraw | Friday Night Lights, Flicka | Excellent job as the abusive dad in Friday Night Lights - Jjscott | ||
| Tina Turner | Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome | She played Max's nemesis Auntie Entity in that movie. - Vic George | ||
| Tina Turner | The Who's Tommy | Twitch, twitch, creek, twitch. It worked. - Missy MuMu | ||
| Toby Keith | Broken Bridges | Movie sucked. Awful acting. He should stick to singing. - Jessie W. | ||
| Tom Waits | Coffee and Cigarettes, Domino | Great acting, played parts that fit him well - Jeffrey DeVilliers | ||
| Tone Loc | Car 54 Where Are You?, Freedom Strike, The Code Hunter, They Crawl, Titan A.E., Heat, Blank Check, Surf Ninjas, Posse, Poetic Justice, Rhapsody | - Michael Prymula | ||
| Tupac Shakur | Juice, Above The Rim, Poetic Justice, Gang Related, Bullet, Gridlock'd | An excellent actor who will truly be missed. - Michael Prymula |
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