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| Celebrities With Awesome Hidden Talents! |
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We all watch Hollywood movies. They are now easily accessible across the world on screens, Blu-Ray, DVD and downloadable versions, unlike earlier times when they were a rarity especially in small cities and towns. Hollywood celebrities and glamorous actors / actresses are well known to us now for their movies covering action, romance, fantasy, science fiction, thrillers, suspense, mystery and so on. Quite a few of us see celebrities in the roles they project in the movies like handsome hunks, glamour dolls, martial artists and comedians to name a few.
Interestingly, there are quite a few celebrity stars that are more than what they seem in movies. Simply put, apart from their acting skills, they also may have other skill sets or substance to their real image compared to their reel image. Here are a few Celebrities with Awesome Hidden Talents.
1. Angelina Jolie
She is one of the A-list actresses in Hollywood and well known across the world. She is considered hot and with amazing looks. She can also be intimidating as she showed amply in her Tomb Raider and Salt movies. What the general population may not know about her is her special skills in knife throwing! She is a specialist in that. She particularly honed her skills while doing Tomb Raider films where she played Lara Croft, a female cross between Indiana Jones and James Bond. In real life, she has exhibited her mastery with knives on several talk shows. It is rumored that when she got angry, she would turn to her knife throwing which apparently scared Brad Pitt to his core!
2. Colin Farrell
He is one of the best rising stars in Hollywood and has several notable films to his credit. The dreamy actor is considered as one of the World's sexiest men by many magazines. Al Pacino described him as the best actor of his generation. How many of us know that he is very good at country line dancing? He has even taught classes on the dance style as a line dancing instructor in a nightclub.
3. Harrison Ford
We have seen him flying the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars and act as the gruff drunken pilot in Six Days Seven Nights. He is one of the heart throbs of the film industry and the fans, even at his current age. He has to his credit several top franchisees like Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Blade Runner. However, what many may not know about him is that he is indeed a skilled pilot of a variety of aircrafts. So if there is a Millennium Falcon, in reality, then we should not be surprised that he would be pretty good at it. He is a private pilot and flies both fixed wing aircraft and helicopters. He has also provided emergency helicopter services when requests came in from local authorities. He is a honorary board member of the humanitarian aviation organization Wings of Hope.
4. Kaley Cuoco
The Big Bang Theory (BBT) star Kaley Cuoco has one true love in real life. She loves saddling up and doing horseback riding. She has been riding and competing from age of fifteen. Kaley is a familiar sight at the Los Angeles equestrian center.
Apart from his singing talents, he is known for his Bieber hairstyle and being one of the most searched celebrities on the internet. No one normally would associate him with Rubik's cube. Solving a Rubik's cube is in itself an achievement but one that would put anyone at the top. However, Justin Bieber is one of those who can quickly solve it. As if that is not shocking enough for anyone who would not normally associate Bieber and the Rubik cube, there is more... this gentleman solved the popular puzzle in flat 1 minute and 23 seconds. Though this is nowhere near the 6 second world record, one has to still admit that it is still pretty impressive.
6. Pierce Brosnan
Known for his memorable Remington Steele TV series and being a former James Bond 007, Brosnan is an accomplished actor and considered one of the most handsome men on the planet. He was voted as one of the Sexiest Men alive and 50 Most Beautiful People in the world by few magazines. What may come as a surprise though is that he is a professional "fire eater". He has performed a fire eating act in a circus at a young age. He performed this act in one of the episodes of Remington Steele too.
7. Geena Davis
She has played many roles in her life and has emerged with impressive performances. She is an award winning actress, writer, film producer and a former fashion model. She is well known for her beauty and her lovely smile. She had a successful modelling career. However, what awes people is that she is a genius member of MENSA, the high IQ society. MENSA is the largest and oldest IQ society in the world. Its members are typically those who have attained a score within upper 2% of the general population on an approved intelligence test properly administered and supervised. Imagine that! As if that was not enough of a high octane accomplishment, she was almost Olympic athlete! She is a skilled archer and competed with 300 women in July 1999 for a semi-finals berth in the USA Olympic Archery team to participate in Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics. Though she did not qualify, she was placed an impressive 24th of 300. The interesting part was that her introduction to archery was just 2 years before her tryouts in 1999!
8. Taylor Lautner
Famous for playing Jacob in the popular Twilight movie, Lautner is known for his martial arts skills. He began studying martial arts at the age of 6. He received his black belt at age of 8 and at the same age represented his country in 12 years and under division in the World Karate Association and became Junior World Forms and Weapons Champion. At age of 12, he became a three time Junior World Champion.
Who would have thought the comedic star of That ‘70s Show, Two and a Half Men and What Happens in Vegas had another fascinating aspect to his life - martial skills! He is a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and has travelled to Brazil to further his training. He is known to be a handsome hunk but Kutcher attributes it to Jiu-Jitsu. And oh yes - reportedly, he does knitting too!
10. Keanu Reeves
Reeves is considered to be a versatile actor and has an immensely diverse acting portfolio. His film Matrix and its sequels broke him out to his martial arts capabilities. Reeves trained in Jiu-Jitsu, Wushu, boxing and Krav Maga. And that was not all, he later became skilled in Judo and Karate as well.
11. Kate Beckinsale
She is popular for the Underworld franchise and made a name for herself with films like Van Helsing and Total Recall. However, movie goers may not know that she was a literary prodigy. In her teens, Kate won the British Bookseller W.H. Smith Young Writers' competition, not once but twice! The first time she won for 3 short stories and the second time for 3 poems. She has also mastered several languages.
12. Neil deGrasse Tyson
The gentleman is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science communicator. Who would think he would be into sport but there it is. Tyson was a star athlete as wrestler and rower in high school and college.
13. Christina Hendricks
She is popular for her role as Joan Holloway in Mad Men, an AMC drama television series. She was nominated for six Prime time Emmy Awards for her acting. An unknown talent of Christina Hendricks is she plays the Accordion masterfully. She has proclaimed that she loves Accordion and it is romantic with full, rich sound. Christina does knitting too!
14. Steve Martin
The king of comedy has starred in many films that entertained us with the comedy genre. Unknown to many, he is an expert at playing Banjo. He has recorded and toured as a Banjo artist. Further, and has even established a prize for Banjo and bluegrass excellence to bring more visibility to the art.
15. Bruce Willis
The Die Hard star known for his thrilling action films has a soft side to him. He actually started his entertainment career playing nothing less than a Harmonica for an R & B band Loose Goose. In fact, he still loves playing the Harmonica despite his world wide fame and many block buster movies. He even does touring playing the instrument with his band, The Accelerators.
16. Amanda Seyfried
She is one of the sweetest actresses around there with many romantic movies and musicals to her credit. But there is more to her than meets the eye. She is a wizard at knitting and crocheting. She has showed off her skills on many programmes at hand knitting. She has said that she considers knitting her therapy, much like a lot of knitters do.
17. Johny Cash
John Cash was one of the most accomplished celebrities in recent times. He was an American singer, song writer, guitarist, actor and author. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time and sold more than 90 million records worldwide. So no one would have connected him perhaps with cryptography, of all things! He was at one point of time assigned to the cryptographic intelligence unit intercepting Soviet Morse code. He was usually called for the hardest jobs as he was that good. When Joseph Stalin died, he was the first American to pass along that news.
18. Christopher Walken
Ever imagined a celebrity being a real lion tamer and not one acting as such in movies? Well Christopher Walken worked as a lion tamer in real life when was a teenager. He did several routines with a lion name Sheba. In his own words, Walken said that Sheba was like a big, nice, old dog. Sheba did not disappoint and did many tricks she was trained to. And one another hidden talent is his knitting skills.
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