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Sting | Ice T | |
Real name | Gordon Sumner | Tracy Marrow |
Acting debut | Playing bass in the Police (predates role as Ace Face in 1979?s Quadrophenia) | A member of the Enforcers, one of the rival gangs who faced off in a breakdancing competition in a 1983 episode of Fame. |
Busman?s holiday | Played musical guest ?Sting? on two 2006 episodes of Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, a comical drama about an SNL-style variety show. | Played ?Hiphop MC? in 84?s Breakin? and ?Rapper? in 84?s Breakin? 2: Electric Boogaloo |
Straight to DVD | Starred in 1982 thriller Brimstone & Treacle | Leprechaun 5: Leprechaun In The Hood |
Just for the paycheque | 06?s sickly star-studded Christmas In Rockefeller Center | Doing a second episode of Pam Anderson vehicle V.I.P. |
Oscar-worthy performance | Bartender J.D. in Guy Ritchie?s Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels (1998) | Serious film debut as undercover cop Scotty Appleton in 91?s New Jack City |
Box-office poison | Feyd-Rautha in David Lynch?s 1984 debacle, Dune | Johnny Mnemonic (blame Henry Rollins for that one) |
Art imitates life? | ?I created your body just as I created your mind. And I can uncreate it too!? (from 85?s Bride Of Frankenstein remake The Bride) | ?I wanna shoot you so bad, my dick?s hard!? (from New Jack City) |
Stand-out soundtrack | Made solo debut with cover of Spread A Little Happiness for 82?s Brimstone & Treacle | Colors, from 88?s Colors |
Plausibly deniable role | Voice of Zarm in several episodes of Captain Planet And The Planeteers | Under that absurd makeup, is anyone really sure it?s Ice T leading the mutant kangaroo-man army in 95?s Tank Girl? |
You get paid for this? | Played himself alongside wife Trudie Styler in 07?s Comic Relief episode of cult Brit Dawn French series The Vicar Of Dibley | Cameo in John Wayne Bobbit porn flick Frankenpenis |
Weird wrestling connection | Appeared in 1995 episode of WCW Monday Nitro | Contributed Pimpin? Ain?t Easy to Wrestlemania 2000 soundtrack |
Slumming on TV? | 85?s Ligmalion: A Musical For The 80s | See him every week as Detective Fin Tutuola on Law & Order: SVU |