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Twenty-three screen actors, according to the compilation’s creator, can genuinely carry a tune — and the list runs from a mutant with claws to a soprano on a Parisian barricade.

The YouTube creator Evenstar built “|| 23 actors who can actually sing ||” around one specific rule: everyone on the list had to make their name as an actor first, with the singing arriving later as a surprise rather than the résumé. That deliberately rules out the ‘Glee’ cast and Broadway-to-screen crossovers who launched as recording artists or stage singers before acting ever entered the picture. What’s left is a roll call of dramatic performers stepping in front of a microphone in ways audiences didn’t necessarily expect.

• Hugh Jackman went from playing Wolverine in the ‘X-Men’ franchise to singing Jean Valjean’s numbers in 2012’s ‘Les Misérables.’
• Robert Pattinson wrote and performed original acoustic tracks, including “Never Think” and “Let Me Sign,” for the ‘Twilight’ soundtrack.
• Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone drew critical acclaim for their live vocal work in 2016’s ‘La La Land,’ while Scarlett Johansson sang in that same year’s animated hit ‘Sing.’

The Ground Rules Behind Evenstar’s List

Evenstar’s stated goal was to find raw, unpolished footage — live TV spots, acoustic sessions, awards-show performances — rather than studio cuts run through Auto-Tune. That’s a harder standard than it sounds, since plenty of actors who technically sing on soundtracks have never done it live in front of a camera. For a handful of the 23 entries, Evenstar noted there simply wasn’t verified live footage available, so the compilation leans on soundtrack recordings or theatrical film excerpts instead, flagging the switch rather than pretending otherwise.

Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine-to-Valjean Leap

No name on the list makes the contrast starker than Hugh Jackman’s. He spent the better part of two decades known primarily for retractable claws and a bad attitude as Wolverine across the ‘X-Men’ films, then turned around and sang the demanding Jean Valjean role in Tom Hooper’s 2012 adaptation of ‘Les Misérables’ — a live-singing production where the cast performed on set rather than lip-syncing to pre-recorded tracks. That’s the exact template Evenstar’s compilation is chasing: an action-movie name doing something nobody signed up expecting.

The Acoustic Underdogs

Robert Pattinson’s inclusion leans on a quieter case. Before ‘Twilight’ made him a household name for brooding rather than singing, he contributed original acoustic songs to the film’s soundtrack, including “Never Think” and “Let Me Sign,” performed and written himself rather than handed off to a studio session player. Joseph Gordon-Levitt occupies similar territory — known for live acoustic duets and cover performances rather than any billed musical role, the kind of off-the-cuff clip that circulates because it wasn’t supposed to be a showcase in the first place.

The premise only works because none of these names built a career on singing — the microphone was always the surprise, never the pitch.

La La Land’s Vocal Validation

Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone give the list its most recent and most decorated entry. Damien Chazelle’s 2016 musical ‘La La Land’ put both actors through live vocal performances on camera, and the reception — both critical and awards-season — treated their singing as a genuine part of the performance rather than a stunt. It’s the kind of proof point that makes a compilation like this credible instead of a stretch: two actors with no prior singing reputation carrying entire musical numbers in a Best Picture contender.

Closing on Johansson and Rossum

Scarlett Johansson rounds out the list with a two-sided case — she’s recorded covers of Tom Waits material away from any film role, then sang again in 2016’s animated hit ‘Sing,’ giving Evenstar both a studio and a soundtrack example to pull from. Emmy Rossum sits at the opposite end of the spectrum: she crossed from straight drama into the title role’s demands of ‘The Phantom of the Opera,’ a part that requires legitimate range, not a cameo verse. Between Jackman’s barricade and Rossum’s opera house, the compilation makes its point without needing a single ‘Glee’ alum anywhere near the tracklist.

If any part of your article’s formatting drifted from that original hook, the fix is simple: check the Hugh Jackman rundown against the actual clip Evenstar cut together, and for the Gordon-Levitt case, the acoustic-cover reputation lines up with the same off-script energy he brought to the Project Power press cycle years later — a guy who’ll pick up a guitar on camera without anyone asking him to.