14 Stars Who Brought Their Off-Screen Talents to Their Roles

When considering celebrities, it's easy to get star struck or consumed with jealousy when we consider their achievements and the lives they lead. It's also easy to forget just how talented these human beings often really are.

It's not surprise then, that many famous celebrities and movie stars often have some significant talents that we never even get to see. We wanted to explore more than a dozen times stars brought their off screen talents to their on screen roles.

For example, Christopher Lee is actually an accomplished fencer and swordsman, a skill he got to show off as Count Dooku in Star Wars.

Just because someone is on TV and movies, that doesn’t mean spouting lines for the camera is all they can do. Stars are people just like us (yeah, really), with their own interests, hobbies, and pointless entrepreneurship majors. And sometimes, what they learned on their own makes their way to the screen -- as in these cases.

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