Samuel L. Jackson, Nicholas Cage, Seth Green, and Freddie Prinze Jr. are just a few actors who are comic book fanboys and collectors.
Jeff Goldblum and Clint Eastwood are jazz pianists who are supposed to be quite good, Peter Weller is a jazz trumpeter, and Anthony Stewart Head is a fantastic singer who released an album full of downtempo, “chill” music – sort of somewhere between new age and electronica.
I might get dinged with a cite request here, but I’ve heard that Henry Kissinger would occassionally unwind at Disneyland . . . by putting on a uniform and selling popcorn.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II apparently does really killer impressions. It’s said that when her bedroom was broken into by a deranged man a number of years ago, she helped herself recover from the shock by doing impressions of her cockney chamber maid going, “Bloody 'ell, mum, what’s ‘e doin’ in 'ere?”
Her grandfather George V’s enthusiasm for stamp collecting is well known.
Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark does set designs for plays, and is also a textile artist and illustrator.
There’s a comic, in the same vein/group as Buddy Hackett who collects third edition books (those being the ones when most of the errors have been purged from the text, apparently).
Gallagher is an inventor and apparently makes more money from that, than he ever did from his stand up routines.
David Boreanaz collects and wears really, really wacky socks.Even when he’s wearing nice suits. I count it as a hobby, since he actively seeks these socks out. Here’s one example And another
I’ve heard several times that Mel Gibson and Jason Alexander both play Magic the Gathering. No clue about the source, though, and it seems kinda out of character for Mel to invite THE DEVIL’S WORK INTO HIS LIFE like that.