8 Times Marilyn Manson Proved The World Wrong

6. He Started Acting

It's easy to forget how wrapped up acting is with playing music. It's called performance for a reason. That being said, there's still a marked difference between playing songs on stage and appearing on television. There have been countless examples of musicians attempting to make it work on screen €“ Justin Timberlake, Ringo Starr and Beyonce to name a few. The only time Manson managed to materialize on screen, however (outside music videos, of course) was as the centrepiece in news stories, being picked apart and analysed or lambasted and blamed.

It was pretty surprising, then, when Manson began creeping into acting roles €“ and even more surprising when he actually turned out to be good. One of his more notable roles was as himself in the hit comedy drama Californication. From there he continued to climb, with a recurring role as Ron Tully in Sons Of Anarchy.

More recently, Manson is set to appear in one of his most ambitious projects yet, as Native American hit man Pope in indie film Let Me Make You A Martyr. As Manson's on-screen presence grows, so too does he continue to redefine the world's perception of who he is. Gone are the days of Manson as merely a cartoonish villain, and good riddance to them.