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There are many actors who, in addition to acting, have tried their luck in literature. The usual thing is that they dedicate themselves to their memoirs, which they tell in their own handwriting or there is someone who writes them as a biography. But they also dare with fiction and all kinds of genres, from love novels, children's to thrillers. Some have had some success and balance both creative aspects well and many have also taken advantage of a good moment in their careers to start writing and publishing. I have selected these national and international names.
classic actors
Just to mention two that I have already brought here, as they were Sterling hayden, who in addition to his autobiography, wrote a historical novel. Y Kirk Douglas, who has a few to his credit.
actors from here
Iztiar Miranda
Pablo rivero
To Pablo Rivero Above all, he is known for being Toni Alcantara in Remember when, but he also got the literary bug and has already published 4 novels. She debuted in 2017 with I won't be afraid again un thriller set in the XNUMXs at the time a family is murdered in their sleep. They followed Penitencia, more personal, The girls who dreamed of being seen and the recent the brood, also with a black theme, which tells of the disappearance of a child and the subsequent investigation of the case by a lieutenant of the Civil Guard.
actors from there
Interesting case of the two protagonists of one of the most famous television series such as File XDavid Duchovny and Gillian Anderson.
David Duchovny
Forever already known as the FBI agent Fox mulder, also played Hank Moody, a somewhat old writer of turns and vices in Californication. But it turns out that Duchovny graduated cum laude in English Literature at Princeton University, where he received several awards as poet, and later did a master's degree on the same subject for Yale. So she knew a bit about the subject when she debuted in 2015 with holy cow. The following year he published Bucky Fucking Dent, after Miss subwaysIn 2018 Truly Like Lightning and this year he has released the fifth, The reservoir.
Gillian Anderson
Recently it can be seen in The Crown giving a great performance as Margaret Thatcher, but Gillian Anderson will also always be remembered for her character in the Agent Scully. And he was ahead of his partner on the literary subject because in 2014 he published A Vision of Fire, the first novel in a science fiction saga titled earthend.
Ethan Hawke
For those of us who are old enough, and despite his long and varied career in film, Ethan Hawke will always be the timid student Todd Anderson of Dead poets society. Much later, and like another of her characters in Sinister, Hawke wanted to try as a writer and published The Hottest State, which tells the story of an actor who has an intense relationship with his lover and who also took to the cinema as a director. But it has also published Rules for a gentleman, Indeh, an Apache story, A bright ray of darkness o Ash Wednesday.
Hugh Laurie
Long before becoming his most remembered character, the very particular doctor Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, with a lot of British cinema and tables behind him, tried his luck in literature with a dog night. He published it in 1996 and It stars ex-cop Thomas Lang, who is now a gun-for-hire and given a job he doesn't want to do. But that refusal will bring consequences. Laurie did quite well with the play because the novel was a success of both readers and critics, and has even been translated into more than thirty languages.
Viggo Mortensen
Multifaceted as they come, Mortensen dedicated a good part of his salary earned by the trilogy of The Lord of the Rings to create a small publishing house, Perceval Press, where besides post your own poetry (and there are currently a dozen titles) also publishes albums, art books and, in general, works committed to ecology or politics of a more social nature.