Actors who Can Sing

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 4:52pm

What actors do you know of who have some degree of singing talent that aren't necessarily known for their singing or who haven't had much of a chance to showcase it?

Beverly D'Angelo (Hair, Coal Miner's Daughter, Vegas Vacation)
Ricki Lake (China Beach)
Melinda Clarke (Soprano singer)
Mira Sorvino (Supposedly a soprano, sang a bit as Marilyn Monroe in Norma Jean and Marilyn)
Lynda Carter (Had a CD, Sang in Bobby Jo & the Outlaw)
Carrie Fisher (Sang on SNL)
Amy Jo Johnson (Felicity, Sweetwater, Has done a couple albums)
Mia Sara (Sang in Legend)
Michelle Pfeiffer (Grease 2, Fabulous Baker Boys, Prince of Egypt)
Kari Wuhrer (Sliders, Had a CD)
Tia Carrere (Wayne's World, Had a CD)
John Schneider (CD, Broadway)
Diane Keaton (Hair on stage, First Wives Club)
Kate Winslet (Heavenly Creatures)

Updated On: 6/1/05 at 04:52 PM

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 4:54pm

Brittany Murphy
Amber Tamblyn

Updated On: 5/31/05 at 04:54 PM

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 4:57pm

From what I've heard, Anne Hathaway.

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 4:58pm

Annette O'Toole apparently sings fairly well and doesn't showcase it.
And, while she probably has a lot of opportunities to sing (and does so), most people don't seem to know that Catherine O'Hara is quite a decent singer.

[NCGuy]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 5:02pm

Annette O'Toole did her own singing in that Tammy Wynette tv-movie she did years ago (and did a great job!).

Sissy Spacek actually had a country album out a few years after she did "Coal Miner's Daughter."

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 5:06pm

Karen Black (Nashville, Five Easy Pieces)
Meryl Streep (Silkwood, Postcards from the Edge, Death Becomes Her)
Kathy Bates (Annie)
Rebecca de Mornay (The Slugger's Wife, Beauty and the Beast, An Inconvenient Woman)
Phoebe Cates (Theme to "Paradise")
Goldie Hawn (Everyone Says I Love You, tv special with Liza)

Updated On: 6/1/05 at 05:06 PM

[kangaroo]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 5:07pm

Will and Grace cast

And my fair lady... Anne Hathaway CANNOT sing. you have heard wrong

~kangaroo

[CostumeMistress]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 5:19pm

Ohh, Kanga, I was just getting ready to say Megan Mullally!

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 5:30pm

Mullally has sung on Broadway, at the Kennedy Center and at Jazz at Lincoln Center. I wouldn't put her in this group, nor Eric McCormack, who has sung on Broadway, nor Sean Hayes, who sings on TV.

[Marquise]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 5:48pm

John Schneider has sung on Broadway too. So has Tom Wopat. I was going to name Cheryl Ladd but I remembered she replaced Bernadette Peters in "Annie Get Your Gun".

[CostumeMistress]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 5:52pm

Yes, Rath, but (reg. Will and Grace cast) the majority of those who know their names don't know that - they're not known for their singing.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 5:54pm

True, they've been on broadway, but to most people that's not their main claim to fame.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 5:59pm

Broadway is a hell of a showcase, though.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 6:31pm

True but the question says: What actors do you know of who have some degree of singing talent that aren't necessarily known for their singing /or/ who haven't had much of a chance to showcase it?

So some people could match one part of the question and some the other, or both.


Raquel Welch (Victor/Victoria, Sonny and Cher, USO tour with Bob Hope, Swingin' Summer, The Wild Party, tv special)
Piper Laurie (Ruby, several 50s movie musicals)
Jean Simmons (Guys and Dolls film, A Little Night Music)
Sally Kellerman (Lost Horizon, Cabaret act)
Kim Basinger (The Marrying Man)
Diana Rigg (A Little Night Music film, Evil Under the Sun)
Anne Bancroft (Don't Bother to Knock, To Be or Not to Be)
Lesley-Anne Down (A Little Night Music film, Arch of Triumph)
Adrienne Barbeau (Fiddler on the Roof & Grease on Broadway)
Marlo Thomas (Free to Be You and Me)
Amy Irving (On the Road Again, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?)
Salma Hayek (Frida)
Jurnee Smollet (Sang on Sinbad's old talk show)
Helen Slater (Album)
Yvonne DeCarlo (Follies)
Bridgette Wilson (Billy Madison)
Mary Steenburgen (The Butcher's Wife)
Sally Struthers (Stage shows)
Mare Winningham (Georgia, played Maria to Kevin Spacey's Captain von trapp in school)
Lacey Chabert (Les Mis)
Eden Riegel (Prince of Egypt)
Kristy McNichol (Album, Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, The Pirate Movie)
Jessica Biel (7th Heaven)
Lucy Lawless (CD, Stage work, Xena) http://lucylawless.info/videos-lucysings.php
Milla Jovovich (CD, The Claim)
Anthony Perkins (Stage work)
Twiggy (The Boyfriend, stage work)
Andrea Bowen (Les Mis)

Updated On: 6/2/05 at 06:31 PM

[SallyBrown]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 6:34pm

shut up, Jessica Biel can sing?

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 6:38pm

She has a good bluesy voice. She sang on an episode of 7th Heaven (not the musical one, since she was gone before then).

[Aigoo]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 6:47pm

Oh. Apparently Sarah Michelle Gellar can sing. (Buffy musical)

And Cameron Diaz, if she counts.

[Broadway_freak]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 6:59pm

Katie Holmes sang an admirable version of "On My Own" on dawson's creek.

[Aigoo]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 6:59pm

Katie Holmes makes me feel good about my voice.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 7:03pm

Haha.

Another: Kristen Bell.

[alphieboy]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 7:06pm

Admirable... more painful in my opinion.

[Aigoo]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 7:06pm

Why does Kristen Bell sound so familiar? Hang on.

ETA: Got it. She was in Veronica Mars.

Updated On: 5/31/05 at 07:06 PM

[Broadway_freak]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 7:12pm

And by admirable I mean "She tried".

[Beergoggles]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 7:24pm

A lot of people don't believe Jonathon Pryce won the Tony and Olivier for Saigon... he's better known as a "serious" actor in the UK.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 8:33pm

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (Man of la Mancha on stage, Limbo)
Sarah Silverman (Jesus is Magic)
Suzanne Sommers (Yesterday's Hero, Vegas shows)
Samantha Mathis (The Thing Called Love)
Juliette Lewis (Strange Days, Rock band)
Julia Roberts (Everyone Says I Love You)

Updated On: 6/1/05 at 08:33 PM