LIVE POLL: Surprising Hidden Talents of Celebrities

These folks all have special talents beyond acting. Which surprises you most?  Bob Barker was taught karate by Chuck Norris and has practiced it for over 20 years  Kate Beckinsale was a literary prodigy who twice won the W.H. Smith Young Writers Award  Pierce Brosnan has worked as a fire eater  Johnny Cash was a military code breaker  Geena Davis made it to the top 32 trying out for the US Olympic Archery team in 1999  Jonathan Davis studied at the San Francisco School of Mortuary Science during his college years and became a professional embalmer for a funeral home as well as an assistant in the Kern County Coroner’s Department  Daniel Day-Lewis was an apprentice to an Italian shoemaker  Neil deGrasse Tyson was a star athlete as a wrestler and rower in high school and college  Snoop Dogg is a certified football coach and has served as head coach for both of his sons' youth football teams  Colin Farrell was a country line dancing teacher  Hill Harper earned a JD from Harvard Law School where President Obama was his classmate  Neil Patrick Harris is a master magician  Christina Hendricks plays accordion  Marilu Henner has hyperthymesia, which means she can recall almost every day of her life in near perfect detail, as well as public events that hold some personal significance to her  Vanilla Ice won three Grand National Championships in dirt bike racing  Ken Jeong is a licensed physician and only ended his medical career after Knocked Up was released  Angelina Jolie is an expert knife thrower  Taylor Lautner at the age of eight represented the US in the World Karate Association where he won three gold medals and was named the Junior World Forms and Weapons champion  Steve Martin has recorded and toured as a banjo artist and has even established a prize for banjo and bluegrass excellence to bring more visibility to the art  Brian May is an astrophysicist  Tom Morello was a male stripper after graduating from Harvard and also worked in a California senator's office  Conan O'Brien is an expert tap dancer  Ed O'Neill has been studying Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for over 22 years  Matthew Perry was a nationally-ranked junior tennis player  Anthony Quinn studied architecture under Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West  Mike Rowe performed with an opera company for six years  Ally Sheedy wrote a best-selling book at age 12  Rod Stewart builds massive late 1940s Pennsylvania and New York railroad scenes that include buildings, cars, storefronts and characters  Christopher Walken worked as a lion tamer  Jack White also upholsters furniture  List: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls061364260  Poll: http://www.imdb.com/poll/e8GqF2yf080 ------------------------------------------------------------- 8/6/16 - DAN_DASSOW: Congratulations yrnej on your 335th live poll!  As of 6-Aug-2016 1:37 AM Pacific your polls have 516,231 or more votes, for an average of 1,541 votes per poll.  4355th Live Poll: http://www.imdb.com/poll/e8GqF2yf080/  This is the 576th People poll. Such polls have a total of 1,116,868 votes for an average of 1,939 votes per poll. - - -Total Number of Votes 10,432,422 Projected Date of 15 Million Votes 23-Nov-2017 Days Until 15 Million Votes 474 - - -  This is the list of yrnej's polls as of 6-Aug-2016:  Sorted Alphabetically  http://mypollwatch.blogspot.com/2014/05/imdb-polls-alphabetical-by-author.html#yrnej  In Decreasing Order of Votes  http://mypollwatch.blogspot.com/2015/03/imdb-polls-descending-order-of-votes-by.html#yrnej