Singers or musicians who have done acting cameos

[Edward216]

I thought this might make an interesting discussion. Let's list singers or musicians who have done acting cameos in either TV or movies, I think it's more interesting to list ones that are obscure or not well known, but more well known acting appearances are fine too. Limit 3 answers per post. So list the singer or musician and the TV show or movie they were in and their character's name if possible, if their character wasn't given a name, then just list the role they played. Or say unknown if you don't know the character's name. I'll start things off.

Chris Martin the lead singer of Coldplay, had a bit part as one of the zombies in the movie Shaun Of The Dead.
Tom Morello, guitarist for Rage Against The Machine has had two small cameos in two separate Star Trek projects (he's a major Star Trek fan). He was a member of a Son'a crew in the movie Star Trek: Insurrection. And he made a brief appearance in the Star Trek: Voyager episode The Good Shepherd as Crewman Mitchell.
Singer and musician Iggy Pop had a role as a Vorta named Yelgrun in the Star Trek: Deep Space 9 episode The Magnificent Ferengi.

Ed.

[JamesG]

Ozzy Osbourne as himself in Little Nicky (2000)







Anthrax's Scott Ian cameoed as a random walker on a Season 5 ep. of "The Walking Dead"

[Edward216]

I remembered another Star Trek associated one.

Michelle Phillips a member of The Mamas and The Papas, guest starred in a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode (she's had several other acting roles too). The episode was We'll Always Have Paris and she played a woman named Jenice Mannheim who was a former girlfriend of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. While I think the episode had an interesting premise and Michelle Phillips is an all right actress unfortunately she and Patrick Stewart didn't really have much chemistry together.

Ed.

[opus]

Eddie Van Halen cameo as a street musician on Cafe Americain


https://youtu.be/IkiAjfj-q3I?si=VOu3H1fBdJUA-oTn

[JamesG]

Questlove, the frontman of Jimmy Fallon's house band The Roots, cameoed as a corpse on a 2014 ep. of "Law & Order: SVU".

He expressed it was a "lifelong dream" of his to appear as a corpse on SVU and they made it happen.

[JamesG]

HBO's "Oz" featured many appearances of musicians:


KISS drummer Peter Criss appeared as inmate Martin Montgomery in 2 episodes.







New York Dolls' David Johansen appeared as inmate Eli Zabitz in 3 episodes.







Biohazard's Evan Seinfeld appeared as inmate Jaz Hoyt for 40 episodes.







Master P appeared as inmate Curtis Bennet for 1 episode.







Method Man appeared as inmate Tug Daniels for 4 episodes.







LL Cool J appeared as inmate Jiggy Walker for 1 episode.







Sandra Denton, aka Pepa from Salt-N-Pepa, appeared as CO Andrea Phelan for 6 episodes.







Lord Jamar appeared as inmate Supreme Allah for 11 episodes.

Also to note that he had a small role on another prison show, ABC's "For Life".

[JamesG]

Poison's Bret Michaels appeared as himself on one episode of NBC's "Revolution".

[MA]

Harry Connick Jr. and Cher on Will & Grace.

Mel Tormé on Night Court.

[JO Sweet Heart]

The first person who comes to my mind is Martina McBride because I can remember three from her. She sang a song on General Hospital back in 1994 I believe it was. She did an appearance on the show named Early Edition in 1999 and she also made one appearance on the FOX network show named Monarch in 2022 which starred fellow country singer Trace Adkins.

God bless you and him and Martina always!!!

Holly (a day one fan of Trace)

P.S. Trace made one appearance of his own in the show named My Name Is Earl in 2005 and the interesting thing about him being on that show at all is the fact that the leading role was offered to him when the show was first being planned. He turned it down because he wasn't ready to set music aside yet for a project as time consuming as a TV show.

[JamesG]

George Harrison cameoed in Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) as Mr. Papadopolous, owner of "The Mount".

He was a huge Monty Python fan and put up his own money to see the film get made.

[Babalu]

This isn't a musician, but this is one of the funniest cameos I ever saw. In Back to School, Rodney Dangerfield played a blowhard multimillionaire who bought whatever and whomever he wanted. The plot of the movie is that he goes back to college to be with his son and and tries to buy his way through. So, he has to write a paper on Kurt Vonnegut but doesn't bother to read any of his books. His son angrily says to him, "How are you going to write the paper?" and there's a knock on the door, and who's standing there, but Kurt Vonnegut. And of course the kicker is, the paper gets an F.

[JamesG]

Another cameo of Ozzy Osbourne was on "The Conners". He and Sharon were customers at The Lunch Box.






Prince guested as himself on a 2014 episode of "New Girl"






Sting guested as himself on Season 1 of "Only Murders in the Building"

[JamesG]

Sam Smith cameoed as theirself (non-binary) on "And Just Like That..."






Michael Jackson cameoed as Agent M in Men in Black II (2002)






Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice) appeared as herself on an episode of "Ugly Betty"

[MA]

David Bowie in Zoolander

Gwen Stefani in The Aviator

Ed Sheeran in Game of Thrones

[JamesG]

ABBA's Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus had cameos in both Mamma Mia! films.


- In Mamma Mia! (2008), Andersson plays the piano during the "Dancing Queen" song and Ulvaeus appears in a post-credits scene as a partygoer dressed as a Greek god.

- In Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018), Andersson plays the piano during the "Waterloo" song and Ulvaeus is an Oxford professor in the film's opening number, "When I Kissed the Teacher".