So many celebrities are double or triple threats. Many actors are singers and dancers, or writers and administrators, and so forth. But many ventures into trades like journalism and documentary filmmaking as effectively. Some do it as a side challenge, while others have made it their industry simply up to they have with appearing.
(*10*)Stars like Robert Redford and Sean Penn have produced documentary movies overlaying subjects like the imprisonment of Native American activists and international poverty. Even some politicians, like former Vice President Al Gore and previous Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin, have ventured into the trade at times. Let's check out one of the most celebrities who have dabbled in journalism.
10 Sean Penn
(*10*)Sean Penn's resume as a journalist is sort of as in depth as his resume as an actor and a director. He has written for Rolling Stone mag on a couple of events. One of his most famous pieces was once his interview of the infamous drug cartel kingpin El Chapo, which was conducted when the drug runner was still a fugitive after his bold break out. Penn has also covered tales in regards to the turmoil in Cuba, Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, and Venezuela, most commonly for Rolling Stone.
9 Robert Redford
Redford has produced and directed reasonably a couple of documentaries, and he began running on one with rocker Bruce Springsteen in 2021 known as The Mustangs which follows the historical past of America's wild horses. One of Redford's most famous and arguable documentaries is titled Incident At Oglala, which makes the case that Native American activist Leonard Peltier was wrongly convicted of murdering two FBI agents. Redford has additionally loaned his voice and expertize to a chain of different documentaries protecting quite a lot of subjects, together with climate alternate, American historical past, and authors.
(*10*)8 Sarah Palin
Palin was once many things before she was Governor of Alaska and John McCain's working mate in 2008. She could also be a mom, a former style, and used to be as soon as a competitor in the Miss Alaska good looks festival. Before all of that, she was once a pupil of journalism at a number of schools ahead of in the end graduating from the University of Idaho. After her run for Vice President, Palin has since done multiple documentary shows for TLC about Alaska and provided remark for Fox News and a couple of different sports channels. She also continues to write prolifically and he or she also has her personal "news network" now known as The Sarah Palin News Network, but in truth it's if truth be told just another conservative YouTube channel. Ironically, regardless of being a student of journalism she is among the many Trump supporters who is fast to bitch about "fake news." She even went so far as to sue The New York Times, for libel.
(*10*)7 Olivia Munn
Munn began her profession as a television journalist before she branched into performing. She owes a bit of her success to her transient stint on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, the place she were given to flex each her journalism and her appearing/comedy abilities. Funny sufficient, Munn also got to flex her knowledge of journalism when she co-starred in the Aaron Sorkin drama The Newsroom with Jeff Daniels.
6 Rashida Jones
(*10*)Jones entered journalism after her rise to status on Parks and Rec when she made the Netflix documentary Hot Girls Wanted, which talks about extortion in the porn industry. The movie was once well-received but some other people who establish as "consensual sex workers" which means they practice sex work willingly, argued that the movie is biased and promotes stereotypes about sex paintings. Some also argued that Jones's documentary did more to expose the identities of intercourse employees greater than it did to call out traffickers and extortionists.
5 Al Gore
Gore might have misplaced the presidency to George W. Bush in 2000, however he gained an Oscar for his world-famous documentary about local weather trade, An Inconvenient Truth, in 2007. Well, no less than he won something.
(*10*)4 Idris Elba
The superstar of Luther became a documentarian and journalist in 2015 when he directed Mandela, My Father, and Me which tells the tale of the actor and his private dating with the past due president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela. Elba performed Mandel in the movie Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom which used to be in response to the sector chief's best-selling autobiography.
3 Colin Hanks
(*10*)Tom Hank's son has ventured into performing like his father did and starred in the cult vintage comedy Orange County opposite Jack Black. But he's additionally dabbling with documentaries now, making one in 2015 referred to as All Things Must Pass which tells the story about the upward thrust and fall of Tower Records, a as soon as extremely popular chain of file retail outlets. He additionally directed a documentary a couple of loss of life steel band's tragic experience in the 2017 film titled Death Metal: Nos Amis.
2 Robert Duvall
The celebrity of The Godfather and several other other vintage movies entered journalism five years after the discharge of the vintage gangster film. He directed the 1977 documentary We're Not The Jet Set, the tale a few rodeo circle of relatives from the midwest.
(*10*)1 Angelina Jolie
In addition to being a philanthropist and U.N. human rights ambassador, Jolie may be a journalist and documentarian. In 2007 she made a film titled A Place In Time, the movie chronicles the lives, cultures, and struggles of a number of other people in over two dozen countries.
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