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Music Trivia -> Singers Who Act -> W
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.
Entries Beginning with W
Name | Notable Song Credits | Comments & Submittor Name | ||
| Wayne Newton | License To Kill; The Adventures of Ford Fairlaine; 'North & South' TV miniseries | He also made a guest appearance on 'The Lucy Show' were he played (of course) a singing farm boy. - Marvin Hamlisch On Rye | ||
| Weird Al Yankovic | UHF, The Naked Gun 2 1/2, The Naked Gun 33 1/3, The Weird Al Show, Batman vs. Robin, Weird | Oddly enough, he did not play himself in Weird. He instead played Tony Scotti, president of his first record label. He seems to be a pretty good actor. - Harrp | ||
| Weird Al Yankovic | UHF | - ayane | ||
| Wendy O. Williams | Was in the 1986 movie REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS | - Scarlett Lopez | ||
| Whitney Houston | The Bodyguard | Yeah, she needs one of those at the moment to prevent her from going crazy - Cait Sith | ||
| Will Smith | The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air (TV series), Independence Day, Bad Boys, Men In Black, Ali, Enemy Of The State, Hitch, The Pursuit Of Happyness, etc. | He's probably even better known for his acting career than his rap career these days. - Lilli | ||
| Will.I.Am | X-Men Origins:Wolverine, Instant Def(TV series) | - Michael Prymula | ||
| Willie Nelson | Thief, Honeysuckle Rose | He was okay in both of these films. - Lynnetta Lore | ||
| Willie Nelson | The Dukes of Hazzard | He can't sing or act. Wow. How did he get on T.V.? - Jessie W. | ||
| Willow Smith | Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008) | She seems fine for a hobo girl who pretended to be a boy. - Felicity Merriman | ||
| Wyclef Jean | Shottas, Dirty, One Last Thing, Redline | - Michael Prymula | ||
| Wynonna Judd | Blue's Clues | She plays Wynonna, Green Puppy's owner, in the episode "Blue's Big Holiday". - JohnHowarth |
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