Billboard's The 100 Best Acting Performances by Musicians in Movies
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"We wanted to take a look back at 100 of our all-time favorite musician appearances in feature films. They range from Oscar-winning starring turns in prestige classics to split-second cameos in cult favorites, from artists who have come to be as synonymous with film as with music to artists whose IMDB pages might just be a couple entries long. We only had three hard rules for eligibility:
1. The artist had to be well-known for music before they were well-known for film acting. (Apologies to Jamie Foxx, Lindsey Lohan and — most painfully — Jennifer Lopez.)
2. The artist couldn’t be starring as themselves in the performance, even in a somewhat fictionalized rendering. (Further regrets to Alice Cooper, The Spice Girls, and The Beatles.)
3. Only one performance per musician-actor.
Besides those, our list encompasses nearly a century of hitmakers-gone-Hollywood history, from the very beginning of the sound era all the way up to this year — and yes, Gaga made our list, though you’ll have to read on to see just where she ranked. Come dive in to the deep end with us."
Note: Dreamgirls appears on the list twice at #8 for Jennifer Hudson and #35 for Beyoncé.
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Purple Rain
1984, in 3 top lists Check -
8 new
Dreamgirls
2006, in 2 top lists Check -
13 new
Chicago
2002, in 7 top lists Check -
14 new
Dancer in the Dark
2000, in 9 top lists Check -
19 new
Grease
1978, in 12 top lists Check -
32 new
Carmen Jones
1954, in 7 top lists Check -
35 new
Bye Bye Birdie
1963, in 0 top lists Check -
41 new
Crossover Dreams
1985, in 0 top lists Check -
43 new
Cabin in the Sky
1943, in 3 top lists Check -
45 new
Jailhouse Rock
1957, in 4 top lists Check -
50 new
The Love Parade
1929, in 5 top lists Check -
64 new
The Gang's All Here
1943 — a.k.a. The Girls He Left Behind, in 3 top lists Check -
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Burlesque
2010, in 0 top lists Check
Last updated on Jan 8, 2024; source