No, just slogging through somebody else’s back catalog 
I like Barney’s work (Cremaster) but the fact of the matter is he would NEVER in a billion years have had the financing to create that series of films if he weren’t Bjork’s husband. And being a Yale graduate is kind of impressive but it is not a form of performance or art.
Vince Gallo owns everybody else in this thread, period. And he has the most epic nose.
He’s got a pretty good set of forearms on him, too: the combination of piercing blue eyes, acid wit, that sarcasm-masking-vulnerablity thing he does and muscular forearms apparently causes swooning among women. When I try it, though, it’s all “restraining order” this and “not within 200 meters” that.
He’s done that with the Beatles, twice (The “A Walk Down Abbey Road” tour and the recent, under-attended “Sgt. Pepper’s” tour). He does have to pay his bills, and the New Cars got excellent reviews and would have made a lot of money if Elliot Easton hadn’t broken his collarbone.
Oh, and because A Bit of Fry and Laurie always cracks me up, here are Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry fencing athletically {well, Hugh is pretty athletic} in their “Tony of Plymouth” sketch: “So, the worm has claws!”.
I hope this is a whoosh.
Emma Thompson attended Newnham College, Cambridge.
Hugh Laurie attended Selwyn College, Cambridge
Stephen Fry attended Queens’ College, Cambridge
Footlights is the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club.
How many times must I tell you people to stop bothering me with fact?!?!?
Footlights College, Oxbridge is the fictional one in the Young Ones episode.
Right, read my whole post. Maybe I wasn’t clear enough but in the first sentence I wrote they went to Cambridge. In the Young Ones episode they were the posh kid’s team on University Challenge (Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry and Ben Elton writer/co-creator of Blackadder). The college the posh kids were from was called Footlights College Oxbridge. Its a joke.
When I saw the thread title, Steve Martin was the first person I thought of, too. The variety of his output is amazing.
Thank God he’s totally losing his hair - makes the rest of us mortals feel better. 
I think to really count as “multi-talented” in a real sense you need something like Steve Martin’s banjo playing - if he had never acted at all, he could legitimately be famous for playing the banjo. He plays on that level. Hugh Laurie doesn’t, if you ask him about it, play any instrument on that level - however, I read his book having never heard of him and I enjoyed it completely on its own merits.
ETA - by the way, Cheech Marin was on regular people Jeopardy, not Celebrity Jeopardy, and he’s evidently well respected as a collecter and authority on Chicano art.
Anyone come up with a hyphenate more wide-ranging than singer-songwriter-musician-producer-programmer-animator?
I was going to say Justin Timberlake, given his age and his accomplishments. One thing all the most talented people have in common, they are extremely bright.
Woody Allen–standup comedian, writer of books & movies, producer, director, actor, talent spotter, clarinet player.
Allen is interesting, even though he doesn’t met the OP’s criterion of last two years. It’s not just that he dabbled in all these fields, like a lot of people mentioned here. He was near or at the very top of those fields.
He started selling jokes professionally at 17. He was still a teenager when television shows made him part of the writing staff.
Though he was making thousands of dollars a week as a tv writer, he quit to develop a stand-up career. In three years he became one of the leading comics in the business.
He started writing comic essays at the same time. Again, from the very beginning he was proclaimed the successor to S. J. Perelman as the funniest comic essayist in America.
He wrote plays in the 1960s. These weren’t great, but were successful, and Play It Again, Sam has had a long life on its own.
He was not the first comic to write, direct, and star in his own films. Jerry Lewis and Mel Brooks beat him to that. But he immediately became known as the funniest movie comedian, one of a half dozen whose comic persona is known worldwide. In the 1970s he was acclaimed not just as the leading adult comic filmmaker, but a director sharing the pantheon with the best directors in history.
You can try to compare Lewis and Brooks, along with Carl Reiner and Steve Martin and Eric Idle and a few others to this career. Allen towers over all of them for the number of fields that he excelled in.
It’s also interesting how many comedians are in this competition. People forget how bright and talented you have to be to become a top comic, seemingly more so than any other field.
Jerry Lewis has another thing to his credit - inventor. He invented the “video tap”, the TV camera attached to the eyepiece of a film camera.
Comedians are also willing to try pretty much anything for laughs or success. I think that’s true for a lot of performers, but it might be more the case for people who are trying to be funny.
Since Hugh Laurie is now world famous, the award for the most multi-talented performer most Yanks haven’t heard of belongs to (IMHO–drum roll)Ben Elton
Speaking of Laurie, Elton was a script writer for Blackadder, in addition to being a whole lot of other things.
Singer-songwriter-musician-producer-screenwriter-director-actor-painter-sculptor-model-motorcycle racer-breakdancer.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Vince Gallo.