wowed fans with her dance moves in Little Miss Sunshine, and now she’s exploring her musical roots. 
 
 The 16-year-old Oscar nominee recently debuted the first music track with indie troup Stargroves. Titled “Westfjords,” the song is a catchy, twangy collaboration between the teenage actress and songwriter Teddy Watson. 
 
 But the Hollywood starlet isn’t the first actor to dabble in music. 
 
 Performing under the name “Baby Goose,” Hollywood heartthrob Ryan Gosling indulged his inner musician with his indie group, Dead Man’s Bones. The band’s self-titled album — a collaboration between with the Silverlake Conservatory Children’s Choir started by Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea — was released in 2009. 
 
 Likewise, Superbad stars Michael Cera and Christopher Mintz-Plasse have also branched out into music, playing in indie groups Mister Heavenly and The Young Rapscallions, respectively. 
 
 Who else has been rocking out? Launch the gallery for more actors you didn’t know were in bands. ||||| Like some illegal experiment in genetic modification, this film grafts the rock anthem to the spirit of the Broadway showtune, to create a mascara'd eunuch, simpering, misshapen, and nowhere near sexy enough to be gay. It is the movie musical version of the jukebox stage show. Doubtless, like The Producers, it will be adapted back into the theatre, some time in 2017, at which time it will be even more bland and tiring. It's a sentimentalised and weirdly humourless movie — targeted at the middle-aged at heart — in which the rock scene is celebrated as a world where the descending model of Stonehenge is always the right size. 
 
 Rock of Ages Production year: 2012 Country: USA Cert (UK): 12A Runtime: 123 mins Directors: Adam Shankman Cast: Alec Baldwin, Bryan Cranston, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Diego Boneta, Julianne Hough, Malin Akerman, Paul Giamatti, Russell Brand, Tom Cruise More on this film 
 
 It's 1987 and wannabe rock chick Sherrie (Julianne Hough), as wholesome as Doris Day, comes to LA and meets tousle-haired Drew (Diego Boneta), who dreams of being a stadium god. Romance blossoms and well-known rock standards are reedily belted out – each of them defanged and decaffeinated – as they both get jobs waiting tables at the scuzzy-yet-legendary club the Bourbon, which is hosting a massive farewell gig for superstar Stacey Jaxx, played by Tom Cruise. He is pursued by bespectacled Rolling Stone reporter Constance Sack (Malin Akerman), who sees through his pose but may just need a good old-fashioned rock-god seeing-to. But vengeful conservative-values campaigner Patricia Whitmore (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is trying to shut down the sinful club, to the horror of its raddled owner Dennis (Alec Baldwin) and his goofy assistant Lonny (Russell Brand). 
 
 Exhibit number one for the prosecution is Russell Brand's Brummie accent, perhaps assumed in honour of Ozzy Osbourne, but which is as stilted and unconvincing as the rest of his turn here; unhappily this talented comic is somehow always misfiring on screen. Rock of Ages is very similar to the much-derided, female-centred movies like Burlesque and Coyote Ugly; the menfolk here are every bit as absurd and lame, although one middle-aged woman is ungallantly and rather humiliatingly treated. Tom Cruise's appearance cheers things up a little bit — a sub-Kurtz figure in his darkened dressing room — but not very much: nowhere near as vinegary as his appearance in Tropic Thunder or indeed his comparable character in Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia. 
 
 As Dennis broods over his accounts and growls: "Taxes — they're so un-rock'n'roll", it hardly needs pointing out what Beatles number should be played, but isn't, and how complex the politics of rock'n'roll rebellion are. The irony may not be intentional. It really does go on for ages.
– What's better than being a famous actor? Being a famous actor and a semi-famous singer. Celebuzz rounds up 10 actors who've also been in a band: Abigail Breslin: She's just 16, but the Little Miss Sunshine actress is already a multi-hyphenate. Her first song is "Westfjords" with indie group Stargroves. Ryan Gosling: When he performs with his group, Dead Man's Bones, he goes by "Baby Goose." Get it? Hugh Laurie: The House star is the frontman for Band From TV, which is exactly what it sounds like: a charity cover band "supergroup" of sorts that also features Heroes star Greg Grunberg. Jada Pinkett Smith: Who says Scientologists can't be into heavy metal? Yep, Jada—as Jada Koren—fronts metal band Wicked Wisdom. Click for the complete list, which includes one overachiever who's in not one but two bands.