11 Movies You Never Realized Featured Your Favorite Boy Band Members

Yes, that scrawny, scared little kid who shoots Bruce Willis's character, Dr. Malcolm Crowe, at the beginning of The Sixth Sense is none other than New Kids on the Block member, Donnie Wahlberg. He is nearly unrecognizable in his role as Vincent Grey, one of Dr. Malcolm's former patients. And Wahlberg has actually gone on to have a very successful career as an actor. He currently stars in the hit CBS cop drama Blue Bloods, and still manages to fit in tours with the NKOTB.

Joey Fatone, the baritone voice of NSYNC, played Angelo - Toula's (Nia Vardalos) cousin - in the 2002 surprise hit comedy, My Big Fat Greek Wedding. His character also had a dramatic moment in the film's 2016 sequel when he came out as gay to his conservative Greek family. Fatone has worn several different hats following his boy-band career including being a contestant on Dancing with the Stars, hosting a cooking competition on the Food Network, and being a lead actor in a Broadway production of Rent.

After producing four studio albums with the boy band The Jonas Brothers, Nick left his siblings to pursue his own music projects as well as a career in acting. Nick appeared in several television shows, including episodes of Hawaii Five-O and Scream Queens. However, it was his starring role as Brett in the R-Rated, college drama Goat that proved Jonas could actually take on a heavy acting role. Unfortunately Goat, perhaps because it was such a brutal look at college hazing and the drawbacks of fraternity life, did not perform well at the box office.

Justin Timberlake first introduced his musical talents to the world as a member of the Mickey Mouse Club in 1993. He would then go on to become the breakout star of the 1990s boy band, NSYNC. Timberlake ultimately took his talents to the big screen, but could he actually act?

One of his first prominent silver screen roles was in the 2006 Nick Cassavetes gritty crime drama, Alpha Dog, based on the real-life murder of Nicholas Markowitz. Timberlake proved his acting mettle, stepping up to the plate in his role as Frankie Ballenbacher - a character based on Jesse Rugge, who is currently serving life in person for his part in Markowitz's murder. Timberlake has gone on to have a successful career in film, appearing in major motion pictures such as The Social Network and starring in Trouble with the Curve.

There’s another multi-talented member of the Wahlberg family. While Donnie has settled into a nice career in television, Mark Wahlberg from the boy band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, has gone on to become one of the biggest movie stars in the world.

One of Mark’s first major silver screen debuts came in Jim Carroll’s 1995 extremely graphic and disturbing drama, The Basketball Diaries, which is about the writer's real-life fall from being a high school basketball prodigy to becoming a drug addict. Mark played Mickey, one of Jim’s (Leonardo DiCaprio) close friends, who also falls victim to rabid drug use. In 1995, Wahlberg was only two years removed from his breakout role as Dirk Diggler in Paul Thomas Anderson’s sophomore hit, Boogie Nights. 

Harry Styles, formerly a member of One Direction, takes on the role of Alex in his own big screen debut in Christopher Nolan's World War II epic, Dunkirk. Nolan's war movie follows Allied soldiers who become surrounded by the German army during a savage battle in the early stages of the war. The singer also went on to release his first solo album in 2017, the self-titled, Harry Styles.