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31 Famous People Who Have Unknown Talents

Sometimes celebrities can still surprise you.

31 Famous People Who Have Unknown Talents

July 15, 2020

Famous people spend so much time in the public eye, it's easy to assume that we already know everything about them we could ever possibly learn. And, honestly, we know things we would un-learn if we could. But every now and then, a celebrity sneaks a hidden talent under the radar, and can surprise us.

Here's a list of famous people who are surprisingly gifted in ways that have nothing to do with their fame.

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Shaq is a trained police officer and has been a deputy in just about every city he's played basketball for. He is also part of an Ohio task force prot — Source: 6 Surprising Talents Celebrities Are Hiding From The World

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Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman Is an authority on terrorism and antiterrorism. She also has a degree in psychology from Harvard, and is fluent in Hebrew, French, Ger — Source: 8 Celebrities You Didn't Know Were Geeks

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Vanilla

Vanilla Ice was the sixth- fastest jet skier in the world. This was in the '90s, after his lce, lce Baby fame had died down. He attained his rank qu — Source: 6 Surprising Talents Celebrities Are Hiding From The World

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Peter Weller

Peter Weller holds a doctorate in art history. He returned to school at age 57 and earned a master's degree in Roman and Renaissance Art, a Ph.D. in I — Source: The 7 Most WTF Post-Fame Celebrity Careers

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This cityscape is actually part LCONSOLIDATEO PAPER CORPORATION of a huge model railroad set built by rocker Rod Stewart. His layout, which fills near — Source: 8 Celebrities Who Are Great at the Last Thing You'd Expect

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VIN DIESEL is a game designer. He's played D&D for over 20 years, and opened his own gaming development house to create a Riddick-based game. Metacrit — Source

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Neil Young

Rock legend Neil Young invented a new remote control system for model trains. His son has cerebral palsy, and needed an easier way to operate his mode — Source: 7 Celebrities Who Invented Amazing Things on the Side

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Roger Ebert

Pulitzer Prize- -Robust American winning film FUNMove! Russ Meyer's critic Roger ulp! Ebert wrote soft porn Mespolknchestu screenplays. If you don't s — Source: 7 Celebrities Who Had Badass Careers You Didn't Know About

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CRACKEDCON Nuno Bettencourt, who strummed and crooned his way through More Than Words with Extreme, is a ridiculously fast shred guitarist. He's got — Source: Washburn Guitars

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Longtime British PM Tony Blair worked as a concert promoter and sang in a rock band. Blair went into music because he was a big fan of The Rolling Sto — Source: 5 Famous People Who Secretly Had Awesome Second Careers

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Pierce Brosnan once worked as a fire eater. He says he decided to join a fire-eating workshop when he noticed that the women in attendance were toples — Source: 5 Hilariously Bizarre Early Careers of Famous People

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Mike Rowe is an opera singer, by trade. He wanted to get into acting, but needed to join the union, but couldn't join the union without acting experie — Source: 5 Hilariously Bizarre Early Careers of Famous People

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Jason Lee

Actor Jason Lee is a skateboarding legend. Lee is often credited for either inventing or perfecting the 360 flip, and he still gets out and tears it u — Source: 8 Celebrities Who Are Great at the Last Thing You'd Expect

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Kenny Rogers

Country music legend Kenny Rogers was the lead singer for a psychedelic hippie band called The First Edition. CRACKED.COM — Source: 6 Mind-Blowing Early Music Careers of Famous Musicians

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Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash was a military code breaker. Cash was assigned to the cryptographic intelligence unit, intercepting Soviet Morse code. He was so good at c — Source: The 6 Strangest Previous Careers of Famous Musicians

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Kate Beckinsale is a literary prodigy who has mastered several languages. When she was younger she wrote award- winning short stories and poems, takin — Source: 8 Celebrities You Didn't Know Were Geeks

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Before he became a fool-pitying action hero, Mr. T was a bodyguard. Partial client list: Steve McQueen Michael Jackson Leon Spinks Muhammad Ali CRACKE — Source: 5 Celebrities You Didn't Know Ass-Kicked Their Way to Fame

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Jimmy Stewart planned to be an architect, and graduated near the top of his class at Princeton. His work earned him a full grad school scholarship. Th — Source: 5 Famous People Who Secretly Had Awesome Second Careers

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Inside the Actors Studio host James Lipton wrote the theme to Thundercats. He also guest- starred on Family Guy, The Simpsons, and Arrested Developmen — Source: 7 Celebrities Who Had Badass Careers You Didn't Know About

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Jack White is a furniture upholsterer. At one point he even hid 100 clear vinyl records made by his original band, The Upholsterers, inside furniture — Source: The 6 Strangest Previous Careers of Famous Musicians

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Flavor Flav

Flavor Flav, the clock-loving court jester from Public Enemy, is a musical prodigy. As a kid, he taught himself how to play everything from the piano — Source: 6 Dumb Celebrities Who Are Way Smarter Than You Think

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Tough Andantino Rubata guy Clint Eastwood writes love Eb min SONgS. Gma7 Eastwood wrote the love theme for his movie The Bridges of Madison County, a — Source: 5 Beloved Celebrities Who Were Nothing Like You Think

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Queen

Queen guitarist Brian May is an astrophysicist, and co-author of a book on the origins of the universe. BRIAN MAY PATRICKMOORE RISUNTOTT BANG! THE COM — Source: 8 Celebrities You Didn't Know Were Geeks

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Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) created a documentary film exposing government manipulation in Japan. TRUTH ENEMY SHOCKING TOMORROW'S UNMASKED! THE ABOUT O — Source: 7 Celebrities Who Had Badass Careers You Didn't Know About

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Creed Bratton, who played Creed Bratton in The Office, was a guitarist for The Grass Roots in the 1960s. The Grass ROOtS The Grass Roots were a pretty — Source: 11 Celebrities Who Were Secretly Total Badasses

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Canadian figure skater Elvis Stojko is a martial arts master. Stojko received his black belt in karate at age 16, land went on to study 'Hung Gar,' a — Source: Closeted Badasses: 6 Famous Wusses That Would Own You

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Harrison Ford is an experienced pilot who flies rescue missions. Photos: studiowings.com He commanded an airlift of medical supplies to Haiti, polices — Source: 11 Celebrities Who Were Secretly Total Badasses

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Actor Chevy Chase has absolute pitch, and played drums for two rock bands in the sixties. One group, called The Leather Canary, went on to become '70s — Source: 7 Celebrities Who Had Badass Careers You Didn't Know About

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Colin Farrell once made a living teaching line dancing. As a 19-year-old aspiring actor, Farrell supported himself by touring nightclubs across Irelan — Source: 6 Surprising Talents Celebrities Are Hiding From The World

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Ice Cube

Ice Cube is an authority on architecture. Before returning to Compton to revolutionize rap, Ice studied architectural drafting. And for their 2011 pos — Source: 6 Surprising Talents Celebrities Are Hiding From The World

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Christopher Walken worked as a lion tamer when he was a teen. He did a routine with a lioness named Sheba who -would do tricks. Walken says she was l — Source: 5 Hilariously Bizarre Early Careers of Famous People

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