Actors/Actresses Who Make Great Musicians

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I couldn't think of a single one besides J-Lo(is she great?), and she was a Fly Girl before an actress. It came up in conversation at dinner tonight and I was completely stumped. Sub question, did Ronald Regan ever have a music career?

― Brock K. (Brock K.), Monday, 28 October 2002 06:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

vincent gallo

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 28 October 2002 06:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

please no one say kylie minogue shes NOT A MUSICIAN

― donna (donna), Monday, 28 October 2002 06:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Kylie? Well, you never specified they had to be great actors...

http://www.totallykylie.com/TK/Kylie/delcov.jpg

― Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 28 October 2002 07:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

GAH! foiled again.

― Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 28 October 2002 07:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://finerfeelings.homestead.com/files/pulrobinsonstefandennis.jpg

― Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 28 October 2002 07:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

and finally: http://members.lycos.co.uk/thegungeemporium/holly.jpg

I'll go now.

― Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 28 October 2002 07:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

brigitte bardot, i guess.

― d k (d k), Monday, 28 October 2002 07:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

tom waits

― gygax!, Monday, 28 October 2002 07:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

will oldham.

― d k (d k), Monday, 28 October 2002 08:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.movieclub.com/news/01travolta/grease.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 28 October 2002 10:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

I was gonna start this thread myself after the death of Richard Harris last week..

i spent part of last week going through the five albums of his in my collection, and it got me thinking... there's not many actors who make convincing singing/musical careers as a sideline...

So, although he wasn't a musician (to my knowledge) he made some damn great (and in some cases pretty strange) records.....

― Baxter Wingnut, Monday, 28 October 2002 11:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Rick Springfield

― dave q, Monday, 28 October 2002 12:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Holly Valance, Natalie Imbruglia...

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 28 October 2002 12:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

David Hasselhof (although I doubt anyone will call him "great")

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 28 October 2002 12:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

(although I doubt anyone will call him "great")

I imagine a few Germans would disagree with you.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 28 October 2002 14:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Keanu Reeves and Dogstar?

Return of Bruno?

*puts gun in mouth*

― David Allen, Monday, 28 October 2002 16:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

do they have to be actors/actresses before they start making music?

yes: dean martin, matt dillon, johnny depp, jane birkin, valerie lemercier
no: elvis, bjork

― joan vich (joan vich), Monday, 28 October 2002 16:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

Does Meat Loaf's Rocky Horror appearance count for anything?

― sundar subramanian, Monday, 28 October 2002 16:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

-Jared Leto's (Requiem for a Dream, My So Called Life) 30 Seconds to Mars
-Phantom Planet with Jason Schwarzman

*ungodly shudder*

― Aaron W, Monday, 28 October 2002 16:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

Never heard anything by Tenacious D, but Jack Black?

― Nick H, Monday, 28 October 2002 16:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Alanis Morrisette!

― dave q, Monday, 28 October 2002 16:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mark Eric,60's actor who made soft pop classic LP 'A Midsummer's Daydream'which Revola are re-issuing next month,can't wait.I've only heard a couple of tracks & they were sublime.

― Paul R, Monday, 28 October 2002 16:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Leif Garrett rawwks
www.f8officialsite.com

― Mat Bo (Mat Bo), Monday, 28 October 2002 17:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

don johnson

― gage-o, Monday, 28 October 2002 17:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hey 30 Seconds to Mars - I've heard good things.

Are they any good?

― David Allen, Monday, 28 October 2002 17:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Keith Carradine is an actor who played in several Robert Altman films, among other things. His track "I'm Easy" won the Oscar in '76 as best song (from the movie Nashville) and was a hit.

Jessica Harper (Suspiria, Pennies from Heaven, etc.) now records children's music.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 28 October 2002 17:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

twenty-one years pass...

Reviving this thread as a catchall for actors who make records. Vera Farmiga is apparently a secret metal fan, and has a band, the Yagas, with her husband. At the three-minute mark, this song becomes surprisingly heavy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ4mh3uNw48

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 25 October 2024 15:12 (four hours ago) link

Matt Berry does great music, and has a great singing voice.

― /asarco (AcnalbasacNoom), Friday, 25 October 2024 15:46 (three hours ago) link

John C. Reilly

― Οὖτις, Friday, 25 October 2024 15:47 (three hours ago) link

Matt Berry was the first one who came to mind, Tim Heidecker too

Flight of the Conchords guys are awesome as well but they actually are a band so

― frogbs, Friday, 25 October 2024 15:51 (three hours ago) link

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