Names -> Singers Who Act -> Latest Entries
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.
The 20 most recent entries are listed below. There are 138 Singers Who Act entries on the site.
Name | Notable Acting Credits | Comments & Submittor Name | ||
| Frank Zappa | Head | Zappa appears briefly in this bizarre movie starring The Monkees. He gives some advice about how the movie should be presented while escorting a cow. - Agrimorfee | ||
| George Harrison | All the Beatle movies! (A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Magical Mystery Tour, Let It Be, etc.) | Well, he's not the best actor - jdizzy | ||
| Burl Ives | Summer Magic, Roots | Decent performances in both films - Raphael | ||
| Tina Turner | Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome | She played Max's nemesis Auntie Entity in that movie. - Vic George | ||
| Jonas Brothers | Camp Rock | - Jessica | ||
| Joe Walsh | Starred as himself in Duckman | He even reworked the lyrics to Life's Been Good with Duckman's brand of raunchy lyrics. - Celeste | ||
| David Essex | That'll Be The Day; Stardust | Mostly famous for his one-hit (at least in America), "Rock-On", he played the lead role in the 1974 movie "That'll Be The Day" and its sequel. - British Bullcrap | ||
| Mos Def | Brown Sugar and 16 Blocks | Great acting, especially playing a handicap witness in 16 Blocks - Naisha D | ||
| Justin Timberlake | Alpha Dog | Didn't personally care for his acting in this particular movie - Naisha D | ||
| Ice Cube | Anaconda | - Naisha D | ||
| Norah Jones | My Blueberry Nights | Haven't seen it yet. - Raphael | ||
| Hugh Dillon | Degrassi The Next Generation | Played an abusive father, Albert Manning, to Jake Epstien's character Craig in Degrassi: The Next Generation. - Celeste | ||
| Patrick Stump | Law & Order | Stump played 'Marty Dressler' in the episode 'Darkness'. I think he was pretty good. - Amanda | ||
| Roger Daltery | Infomercial for a rock and roll album collection. | It is kind of sad to see this. - Wade Brock | ||
| Alanis Morissette | Dogma | She appears for a short time in Dogma as God. - Julie | ||
| 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 | ||
| Faith Hill | Stepford Wives | stinko movie, Faith, don't quit the day job - Jjscott | ||
| Tim McGraw | Friday Night Lights, Flicka | Excellent job as the abusive dad in Friday Night Lights - Jjscott | ||
| George Strait | Pure Country | Played "Dusty", a country singer. Spawned the hit, "I Cross My Heart" basically played himself, pretty wooden performance - JJscott | ||
| Creed Bratton | The Office | The former Grass Roots guitarist plays Creed (who else?) in the U.S. version of "The Office". - Todd W. Zimmerman |
New entries in this section are currently reviewed by Red Ant. Previous editors (if any) are listed on the editors page.
The Top Ten Contributors To This Section
| Agrimorfee | 9 |
| ZepFan | 4 |
| Paul Warren (site rank #9) | 4 |
| Cait Sith | 4 |
| Celeste (site rank #10) | 4 |
| Tim Hall | 4 |
| helena | 3 |
| Mook | 3 |
| christie | 3 |
| Naisha D | 3 |
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