An actor’s movie career can certainly help their music career if they play an instrument or sing. In celebration of Jeff Bridge’s releasing his debut solo album today, I thought it would be fun to name all the actors turned musicians over the years. Some of you may even be surprised of some of them

Here’s the list, I’ll name 15 of them in no order:

• Billy Bob Thornton – He’s released a few albums of his solo career and a few albums with his other band, the Boxmasters.
• Steven Seagal – The 80’s action star is a guitar player and singer. He had his own songs featured for his own films and released some albums. He’s been playing with his band Thunderbox, for years.
• Johnny Depp – Yep, Johnny is a guitar player and have collaborated with other bands & artists. He used to play for his two former bands, The Kids and another band called, P.
• Kevin Bacon – He’s in his band with his brother Michael, called the Bacon Brothers.
• Scarlett Johansson – She released an album full of Tom Waits covers a few years back.
• Joaquin Phoenix – He sang and played guitar for the movie “Walk the Line” but shortly after, joked about a so called rap career which he never released an album. His rap career turned out to be a hoax. Who knows, maybe someday he will do a real album down the road. Not a rap album, but maybe he can do a rock n’ roll or a country album.
• Jack Black – An actor turned musician who actually has some talent. He’s a good singer and I love the Tenacious D. I wish they would get together to make another album.
• Adam Sandler – His music career became very popular when he did “The Chanukah Song” on SNL, later he got himself a record deal and released his debut album, “They’re All Gonna Laugh At You” in 1993.The album have been certified platinum 2x’s.
• Jared Leto – He has his band with “30 Seconds to Mars” and they’re still together. Making new music and touring.
• Bruce Willis – This action star is a harmonica player and singer. He has also released a few solo albums but he haven’t released a new album in a long while.
• Gary Sinise – He plays bass guitar for the Lt. Dan band, which is named after his character from the film, “Forrest Gump”.
• Clint Eastwood – Clint is a pianist, and he has composed his own music for some of his films that he directed. He have never released any albums of his own yet.
• Jamie Foxx – Jamie released his first album “Peep This” in 1994 just a few years after his first film, “Toys”, came out.
• Gwyneth Paltrow – Her music career started to get recognized after her movie, “Country Strong”. She never really released any full length albums yet, but she has released a few singles.
• Brittany Murphy – Before her death, she was going to launch a music career but she only did one song with Paul Oakenfield. The name of the song is “Faster Kill Pussycat”, you can hear it in youtube.