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Margot Robbie
- While on the set of 'Suicide Squaid,' Robbie showed off a surprising talent as a tattoo artist. She said in an interview that she's done over 50 tattoos, with her own tattoo gun and, according to her, she's only getting worse.
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Harrison Ford - Before his career took flight, Harrison Ford was a licensed pilot! Later on, he became so skilled he even received a few awards for his aerial talent.
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Jennifer Garner
- Jennifer Garner: actress, mother, clogger. She has admitted to possessing many "hillbilly" talents, including playing the spoons, but the wooden-shoe dance takes the cake.
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Geena Davis
- The 'Thelma & Louise' star once competed in the US Olympic semifinals for archery! Just two years after picking up the hobby in 1997, she placed 24th out of 300 women, which wasn't enough to qualify for the 2000 Summer Olympics but was enough to impress us all.
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Mike Tyson - You might not be surprised by this one, as Tyson has been quite vocal about his love of pigeons. He's a pigeon racer, and he said his love of pigeons came from his childhood, growing up in a rough area of Brooklyn but finding solace with the "homers."
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Susan Sarandon - Who would have ever guessed that Susan Sarandon is not only a ping pong player, but such a big ping pong lover that she opened a club, SPiN, in New York City dedicated to the sport. According to her, she fell in love with it after attending a ping pong party and admiring all the interesting and colorful characters that it attracted.
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Bruce Willis - The action hero moonlights as a harmonica player, bringing the blues to that brusqueness. He has even collaborated with The Allman Brothers, proving that he's got what it takes to be a musician.
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Kesha
- In 2012, the singer asked her followers to send their teeth in the mail and she received over 1,000, which she then turned into clothes and jewelry. This moonlight teeth-crafter tried to take up the hobby again in 2014 while being treated for an eating disorder, but the center she was in vetoed the craft.
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Bob Dylan
- The folk legend has created quite the side hustle out of his surprising hidden talent of iron sculpting. Over the years, Dylan has shown his work at several galleries in New York.
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Mark Ruffalo - In 2015, the actor surprised everyone watching 'The Graham Norton Show' as he revealed, by showing off, that he can unicycle. Apparently he hadn't ridden one in over 25 years before he hopped on one on the air.
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Christina Hendricks
- The actress is also an avid accordion player. She told LA Times Magazine, "I also think it's a very romantic instrument, and it channels all the things I love—French culture, Tom Waits—and all the things I try to make my house look like."
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Jack White
- Never thought upholstery and rock 'n' roll go together? Think again. Before forming The White Stripes, Jack White was an upholsterer, and he loved it so much that he formed a band with fellow upholsterer Brian Muldoon, which they called The Upholsterers.
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Pierce Brosnan - Most people wouldn't pin this 007 as a fire eater, but the actor admitted that he was once drawn into a fire-eating clinic in 1969 because of the topless women inside—very 007 indeed—and then gave the sport a try. The only use he's found for it since is a couple performances on talk shows.
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Ellen Page - Something about the actress' vibe doesn't scream juggler, but juggler she is! She has performed on TV and proved she can alternate and change direction or shape of her juggling objects.
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Justin Bieber
- Though he couldn't solve his relationship with Selena Gomez, the pop star could solve the Rubik's Cube. His two-minute solving time was impressive, even though the world record is 4.22 seconds.
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Neil Patrick Harris - Before acting, a bored young Neil Patrick Harris growing up in a small town in New Mexico fell in love with magic. He told ABC he loves juggling, walking on tightropes, and swinging on trapezes. "I like sort of the dangerous circus arts," he said.
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Emma Roberts - The actress holds one of the strangest secret talents of all: the ability to perfectly mimic the sounds of a crying baby. She showed off on 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' and it's quite creepy.
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Conan O'Brien
- The hilarious late night host and comedian has an even funnier hidden talent: tap dancing. O'Brien reportedly took lessons as a young boy, and still tries to show off when he can.
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Demi Lovato
- Remember that weird double-jointed kid in school who would twist their arms all the way around? Yeah, that was Demi Lovato.
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Vanilla Ice
- The rapper is also a master jet ski racer! So masterful, in fact, that he placed sixth in the world at an international competition in 1993.
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Steve Martin - Most devoted Steve Martin fans know he tends to use his banjo for satirical songs, but it stemmed from an accomplished musicianship with the instrument. His band, Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers, have been making banjo music for years—even appearing on NPR's Tiny Desk concert series.
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Angelina Jolie - She has killer looks but that's not where her lethal abilities end: Jolie is a knife-throwing expert. Apparently she learned on the set of 'Tomb Raider.'
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Aaron Paul
- This actor's hidden talent is probably one of the weirdest: he's a dog whisperer. According to Paul, he can detect the sex of a dog just by petting its back, and he proved it on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live.'
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Bob Barker - Does the former host of 'The Price Is Right' seem like a black belt karate pro to you? Well, he was trained by none other than the black belt master himself, Chuck Norris.
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Christopher Walken - We'd pay a lot of money to see Christopher Walken practice his lion taming skills. The actor played his skill down to IndieWire in 2015 by saying that the lion he tamed at age 16 was "like a house cat."
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Kaley Cuoco - The actress is an equestrian! She loves horses so much, in fact, that she owns a few and reportedly still competes, citing horseback riding as a great and easy workout.
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Beyoncé - Queen Bey is apparently also queen of Connect Four. According to Kanye West's old blog, the singer would beat the stress of a bus tour by beating him at the game consecutively.
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Johnny Cash - The famed singer was also a military code-breaker while serving in the army during the Korean War, and it's reported that Cash was the first American to hear news of the death of Joseph Stalin.
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Taylor Swift
- Swifties know the singer loves to bake for her friends, but she's reportedly taken a keen interest in making jam and jelly specifically. She reportedly watched her mother make homemade grape jelly every year, and it's said she has her own secret line of the sweet spread.
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Taylor Lautner
- Before finding fame in 'Twilight,' Taylor Lautner showed real promise in martial arts! He started karate aged six and won many junior world championships before becoming an actor.
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Jason Lee
- The 'My Name is Earl' star was a professional skateboarder in the '80s and '90s, as well as a close friend of Tony Hawk. See also: Odd jobs Hollywood stars had before fame.
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Celebrities with surprising hidden talents
Would you have guessed any of these?
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We all know celebrities are extremely talented when we see them in character onscreen or hear them rocking out on the radio, but there is so much we don't know about them. More specifically, many celebrities have one or two, perhaps less refined, skills that don't get nearly as much air-time.
Click through to find out which strange hidden talents might be found on these stars' surprising CVs.
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