Singers who can act
 

Singers who can be good actors or actresses:

Frank Sinatra.
Dean Martin.
Sammy Davis Jr.
David Bowie.
Cher
Tina Turner.
Will Smith.
Grace Jones.
Paul Williams.
Meatloaf.
Ice Cube.
Michael Jackson. (He was good in The Wiz)
Mos Def.
Dwight Yokhaim.
Kris Kristopherson.
Justin Timberlake.
Jared Leto.
Jamie Foxx

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Mark Holmes
Mark Wahlberg (he was a rapper before actor)

:nope:

Horrible actor.

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Already mentioned but Kris Kristofferson.

From Alice Doesn't Live her Anymore and he was Whistler in Blade and Blade 2.

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He was a horrible rapper, too.

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Definitely Common. There's no better actor known mostly for music (Foxx and Smith are both better, but they're both known as actors, not singers).

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No way , he is a good actor

Hey he was in a Shyamalan movie, that man sucks out acting talent worse then George Lucas in the prequels!

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I actually think Wahlberg is quite good when he wants to be (I loved his role in the Departed but that wasn't a very serious role he was pretty much just an ******* but he was still good). Even every good actor has those bad movie roles or bad movies.(Except maybe Day Lewis but he does like a movie every 100 years)

Nicholas Cage?




















































kidding

Cage is just.......is terrible at choosing movies lol. Wahlberg may have some ****** movies under his belt but Cage is like the king of ****** b movies right now.

Boogie Nights, The Departed, The Fighter, Pain N Gain, Lone Survivor, Shooter, Invincible and Basketball Diaries.

All movies where he is very good in it.

Marky Mark rock

Cage is the best actor ever. He's simply...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR6L_1wAOqY

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And what do you think of my picks?

Barbra Streisand
Cher
John Schneider
Harry Connick Jr.

I thought Mick Jagger was good in Performance, and he's been in other movies.

Blondie was good in Videodrome.

I always like Queen Latifah.

Although I haven't seen them, Bjork in Dancer in the Dark and Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls.

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I think Bjork proved she can act in Dancer in the Dark.

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Just posted that at the same time as me Cricket :p

No one said act well. He can act!

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Geeze guys have some respect. Not a single mention of miley

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I bet most of you didnt know that Tom Petty was in a film...

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Not mentioning Miley Cyrus is having respect. lol

Let's not forget Jennifer Hudson like Cricket said. :cool:

Is that a zombie movie? That's what he looks like.

Yeah he looks pretty bad in the film

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I was thinking about how surprised people seemed to be about Justin Timberlake's acting in The social network, when he had already brought a very solid performance in Alpha Dog. So agreed on that one.

This may not be much of a surprise but Lee Ving played a pretty believable scumbag in Flashdance. David Johansen often stands out a little bit in whatever mediocre movies he gets cast in. Mark Wahlberg was perfect in Boogie Nights and I Heart Huckabees, and has been pretty good in some other movies.

There are too many Cantopop stars who are great actors for me to list them all off the top of my head, but Andy Lau, Leslie Cheung, and Anita Mui spring immediately to mind. And you'd basically have to be a soulless monster not to love Faye Wong in Chungking Express.

I know she was an actress first, and I don't know if that matters for this thread, but I love Gwyneth Paltrow's music. She sounds great. Tim McGraw would also count. He was in Country Strong, with Gwyneth Paltrow. He was in The Blind Side, and a few more films.

Tim McGraw & Gwyneth Paltrow ~ Me & Tennessee

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Don't forget Huey Lewis in Back to the Future. He has also been in TV shows, etc . . .

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Huey Lewis & Gwyneth Paltrow ~ Cruisin'

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

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I'd love to work with markie mark. He has a great attitude.

Yeah, that's the movie Made in Heaven. I own and love that film. Tom Petty's part is small. You forgot to mention that Ric Ocasek from The Cars, has a small part in it, as well. We discussed this film in the 80's thread, and I snagged that song you posted.

Takeshi Kaneshiro who is an asian actor (House of Flying Daggers, Red Cliff, Fallen Angels, Chungking Express, etc) is actually a Cantopop star.

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I prefer him as an actor... just love him in "Red Cliff".

I love that movie too.. havent seen it in years... yeah I forgot Ocasek has a part in it... I just remember Tom Petty and Ellen Barkin being in it.

Tim McGraw
Mark Collie
Jerry Reed

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Madonna did a good job in A League of Their Own.
Bow Wow does a good job in the new show he is on...CSI: Cyber...I think.
Eminem did a good job in 8 Mile...then again the movie was supposed to be based on his life so.....
Tupac was good in every movie he was in.
Aaliyah was amazing!
Queen Latifah...

I did, actually, just not that one.

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Yup, I forgot he was in that too...

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Kiss' Gene Simmons is in a lot of films...

if you think of DJ Qualls and Eddie Griffins movie "The New Guy", that has many singers in it..

Gene Simmons
Lyle Lovett
Kool Moe Dee
Josh Todd from Buckcherry
Henry Rollins from The Rollins Band
Vanilla Ice
David Hasselhoff

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Tom Waits was awesome in Dracula
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And Down By Law
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My favorite Waits performance was in Mystery Men.

This is true.

Oh yeah, I forgot about him. Jackie Cheung is another one.

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Kenny Rogers didnts get enough credit in six pack and his gambler movies.

Perhaps the most impressed I've ever been with a singer turned actor (and I probably wouldn't believe it had I not seen it with my own eyes) is actually Courtney Love.

In both The People vs Larry Flynt and Man on the Moon I thought she was excellent. So much so that I think it's a great shame she was never able to really follow those up and make a real movie career for herself

or Gracie Fields!

Ok, ok, acting maybe not-- but he's freakin' Greg Allman --intense acting starts at 1:00
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I'll echo JD's post regarding Courtney Love. She really was great in both of those films and should have gone on to do more.

My favourites are the usual stuff like David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth,The Hunger and Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, as well as Mick Jagger in Performance and Tony Richardson's Ned Kelly, and Debbie Harry in Videodrome.

I also think Björk was pretty good in Dancer in the Dark.

As for stuff not mentioned: I think legendary French singer Johnny Hallyday (below right) is great in L'homme Du Train

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and Phil Collins did ok in Buster

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Thanks UF. :up: I think a large reason why she probably didn't do more is because of the many problems she has in her personal life in terms of addiction and mental health problems. Issues like that don't tend to make you the most reliable of hires. It might work for your image as a musician but it won't do a great deal for you as an actor. Even if a director desperately wanted her for a part I think they'd have a hell of a time convincing the studio to approve it. I imagine during her worst years it would also have cost a mint to have her insured, if an insurance company would even touch her

Just looking at her imdb page though and she does appear to be having a little bit of a renaissance. After 10 years of doing nothing in the last year she's had recurring roles in three TV shows: Sons of Anarchy, Empire and Revenge, and is currently filming her first movie since 2001.

Wasnt Debbie Harry in one of the Tales from the Crypt films???

Edit: googled it.. she was in "Tales from the Dark Side". .. the Hansel and Gretel story line...

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Debbie Harry and Courtney Love too

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Ice Cube has never really impressed me as an actor and Michael Jackson was TERRIBLE in The Wiz.

Oh yes Debbie was also in Tales from the Darkside the Movie as the witch.

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Where Mark Wahlberg is concerned, I think the question is whether or not he can sing...I mean never heard anything but "Good Vibrations" and he was hardly singing.

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David Bowie was kick ass in The Prestige


Timberlake isn't too bad when he gets the right material

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How about Mandy Moore?

Also, Mark Wahlberg is a lousy actor.

Mel Tillis---The Villain, Smokey and the Bandit II, The Cannonball Run
Mel Tormé---The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, Night Court, Seinfeld
Steve Lawrence---The Blues Brothers, The Lonely Guy, Oceans Eleven

She was also in the original "Hairspray". That also featured Sonny Bono and Ric Ocasek in it.

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