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They play our favorite superheroes, villains and Bad Boys – but some actors can do even more. These actors also make music, and quite successful. From the Grammy winner to the DJ set at the royal wedding, everything is included.
Bradley Cooper
Bradley Cooper has proven that it can be used in a variety of ways, especially in various films, but the 45-year-old is also talented musically. The “The Hangover” actor in his role as singer and guitarist Jackson Maine in the film “A Star Is Born” on the side of Lady Gaga has sang all songs himself. At the latest since the film’s hit, “Shallow”, Cooper has also established himself as a singer.
Kiefer Sutherland
Bars and whiskey, Hollywood star Kiefer Sutherland prefers to sing about it. It was only last year that he released his latest album “Reckless & Me”. A performance at the Best Brands Gala 2019 in Munich also delighted the German audience, as well as the moderator of the evening, Klaas Heufer-Umlauf. He praised Sutherland with the words “He did that really well.”
Dylan Minnette
The 23-year-old gained attention through his role of Clay Jensen in the Netflix series “Dead girls don’t lie”, but musically he also has a lot on it. With his band Wallows, Minnette has been making pop rock and post-punk since 2017. The trio on Spotify already has over 9 million listeners per month – with just one album. After several singles and an EP, the debut album “Nothing Happens.”
Ryan Gosling
Since “La La Land” at the latest, the world has known that Ryan Gosling also has another talent next to the actor. Few people know that the Canadian has a band. Dead Man’s Bones are called Gosling and his buddy Zach Shields as an indie rock duo. With their in 2009, self -titled album, the two landed in the American Rolling Stone.
Idris Elba
Idris Elba is primarily known for his roles in action films such as “Fast & Furious: Hobbs and Shaw” or the Marvel film “Avengers: Infinity War”, but he is also known as a DJ. He played under the name DJ Big Driis at the well-known Coachella Festival last year, also at the legendary Glastonbury Festival and even at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Taylor Momsen
Taylor Momsen was also known by a series – namely through her role of Jenny Humphrey in “Gossip Girl”. However, the acting career was quickly pushed into the background, instead the 27 -year -old devoted herself to the music: as the front singer of the band The Pretty Reckless, she makes alternative rock. The band has released three albums so far.
Hailee Steinfeld
In the Transformers film “Bumblebee”, Justin Bieber’s alleged ex-girlfriend showed herself from her acting and musical side: This is how she sang the “Back to Life” soundtrack. But the 23-year-old is also successful with her own albums and covers, in 2017 she won a Billboard Music Award for “Top Covered Artist”, was already nominated for several MTV Europe Music Awards.
Jennifer Lawrence
Hach, “The Hanging Tree” from “The Hunger Games of Panem” we all know, and a remix of the song once ran up and down on the radio. Katniss actress Jennifer Lawrence actually sang the track herself. In Germany, the song reached platinum status once and even twice in America.
Zooey deschanel
Her “New Girl” character Jess likes to drain to herself and annoy her roommates. In real life, Zooey deschanel is not as annoying as in the series, but actually sounds very pleasant. The 40-year-old has a wide range of music repertoire, so she has the cabaret group IF All the Stars Were Pretty Babie with fellow actor Samantha Shelton, in which she sings songs from “Buddy-the Christmas Elf”, she plays ukulele and piano with M.Ward with M.Ward.
Anna Kendrick
Anna Kendrick is known as Beca in the “Pitch Perfect” films in which her character of an A-cappella group joins the “Pitch Perfect” films. The songs made it from the cinema screen to the charts, especially the “Cup song” from 2012 enjoyed international success.