Actors you didn’t know were also musicians

Actors you didn’t know were also musicians

We all need our creative outlets, even actors. The difference is that famous actors can sometimes turn those passions and side projects into things released to the general public. It seems the thing that actors like trying out the most is music. Now, there are musicians who have becomes actors, like Cher, and people who have definitive careers in both, like a Miley Cyrus or Harry Connick Jr. Here are some actors who have tried their hands at being musicians as well.

Jeff Goldblum

Goldblum often delights with his acting chops or his interview appearances. Nobody brings the quirk to sitting on a talk show couch like Goldblum. However, the “Jurassic Park” star is also a jazz pianist. He and his backing band, the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, have now released two jazz albums.

Scarlett Johansson

Before Johansson was subsumed into the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Black Widow, she tried her hand at music. Way back in 2008, when she was still fairly early in her career, Johansson released the album “Anywhere I Lay My Head.” What made this a particularly unusual album is that 10 of the songs on it are Tom Waits covers. Yes, Scarlett Johansson released a Tom Waits cover album. No, their voices don’t sound similar.

Keanu Reeves

No, we aren’t talking about Wyld Stallyns, the band Reeves’ Ted Logan is a member of in the “Bill and Ted” movies — you know, the band whose music unites the universe in peace. That’s too lofty a standard to hold the alt rock band Dogstar to. Reeves was the bass player in that band, which gave the quartet some added attention.