Elvis Costello

Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus (born August 25, 1954), better known by his stage name, Elvis Costello, is a popular British musician, singer, and songwriter of Irish ancestry. He was an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s, and later became associated with the punk rock and new wave musical genres, before establishing himself as a unique and original voice in the 1980s. His output has been wildly diverse: One critic has written that "Costello, the pop encyclopedia, can reinvent the past in his own image."http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ly09kect7q70~T1

Filmography

• 1979 film debut as 'Earl Manchester' in Americathon
• 1984 as 'Henry Scully' in UK TV series Scully
• 1985 as inept magician 'Rosco de Ville' in Alan Bleasdale film No Surrender
• 1987 as 'Hives the Butler' in Alex Cox film Straight to Hell, starring Joe Strummer and Courtney Love
• 1997 as himself in Spice World
• 1999 as himself in ', performing with Burt Bacharach
• 1999 as himself in 200 Cigarettes
• 2001 as a public defender and a teacher in Prison Song,
• 2002 as himself in How I Spent My Strummer Vacation, an episode of The Simpsons
• 2003 Academy Award nomination for best original song The Scarlet Tide in Cold Mountain.
• 2003 as 'Ben' in the Frasier episode "Farewell, Nervosa"
• 2003 as guest host on The Late Show with David Letterman
• 2004 performing the Cole Porter song "Let's Misbehave" in De-Lovely