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Tags: <marvel><dc><super-hero>
Title: Is there a superhero who is an actor when not on superhero duty?
Question: Does anybody know if there is a superhero who is a professional actor when he or she is not on superhero duty?   For instance, Clark Kent (Superman) is a newspaper reporter when he is not saving the world and Tony Stark (Iron Man) is an inventor and entrepreneur. Is there any superhero who is an actor in the same way?

Answers:
sents: text: Wonder Man From the X-Men continuity
text: , Wonder Man is a talented TV actor.
text: His invulnerability allows him to portray his own stunts.
text: Here we see him in 'House of M' #02 being interviewed on daytime television.
text: Dazzler
text: Although she's more famous as a singer, Dazzler was briefly rebooted as a wannabe actress, culminating in the one-shot comic " Dazzler: The Movie ".
text: Silk Spectre
text: Within the world of the Watchmen , Sally Jupiter (AKA Silk Spectre)
text: parlays her popularity as a vigilante into a series of low budget films including a heavily fictionalised version of her life story and a number of deeply 'kitsch' films masquerading as superhero films but in reality, little more than bondage porn.
text: Captain Avenger
text: From the hit film, 'Hero at Large', actor Steve Nichols takes on the role of Captain Avenger .
text: While doing publicity for the film, Steve foils a robbery and gets hired by the mayor to help him gain support for an upcoming election.
text: At the end of the film, Steve becomes a true hero by rescuing a young child from a burning building.
text: Quite how this film missed the Oscar nomination is beyond me.
text: Captain America
text: For much of his early career, Captain America was an actor working on behalf of the US govt to help sell war bonds.
text: He evidently also made some Hollywood productions.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/20774/Valorum
score: 44
sents: text: Johnny Cage Mortal Kombat was an actor before defending earth realm from invasion by Outworld forces.
text: Depends on whether or not you'd call him a superhero.
text: And technically he wasn't an actor anymore after he became a hero but kept with the whole "defending the world" thing.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/72056/Killerpixler
score: 13
sents: text: In Gaiman's reboot of The Eternals, Sprite has become an actor with the legal name of Colin and the stage name of Sprite and star of
text: "It's Just
text: So Sprite".
text: "Colin" Being interviewed on the set of "It's Just
text: So Sprite":
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/28025/Jon Hanna
score: 6
sents: text: Blue Devil was a stuntman and special effects specialist who actually became a superhero on set (exoskeletal suit, released demon, magical attack, suit bonded permanently to him).
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/48210/Joe McMahon
score: 5
sents: text: Animal Man /Buddy
text: Baker of DC comics is an actor as well as a superhero.
text: In the 2011-2015 New 52 series, he won an Oscar for his part in a Birdman-esque film
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/44656/LogicianWithAHat
score: 4
sents: text: After Cordelia Chase graduated from high school ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 3)
text: she tried acting ( Angel season 1), but got nowhere; before long her life was consumed by supernatural struggles.
text: She acquired some superpowers, though not a costume or pseudonym.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/48973/Anton Sherwood
score: 2
sents: text: Zenith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenith_(comics) from 2000AD's stories originally used/publicised his super-human abilities to promote his pop-star career (which is close enough to being an actor for your purposes, I hope).
text: Eventually circumstances pushed him to act as a more traditional "superhero", but he remained neutral in outlook.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/72803/Jim Cheetham
score: 1
sents: text: Beast Boy
text: /Changeling from Teen Titans.
text: I believe he played in a Star Trek type show.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/71445/user2920788
score: 0
sents: text: Charlie Vicker played Green Lantern on television, and his brother Roger mistaken for a real one when he was subbing for Charlie, and killed.
text: Charlie Worked with the Lanterns to find the criminals, and Hal Jordan assigned him a Power Ring from a fallen Corpsman as battlefield promotion.
text: Vickers performed so well he was made a full corpsman.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/64282/VBartilucci
score: 0

Summary of the answers:
There are a few examples of superheroes being actors when not in their superhero guise. Dazzler played an actress in the one-shot comic "Dazzler: The Movie" and in the film "Hero at Large", actor Steve Nichols takes the role of Captain Avenger. It's also the case that Captain America was an actor for much of his early career.
There are many examples of superheroes who work as actors in their normal lives, e.g. Captain America.