Country Singers Turned Actors

Technically, Carrie Underwood got her start on television as a contestant on “American Idol.” After becoming a multi-platinum selling recording artist, the blonde beauty made a guest appearance on “How I Met Your Mother,” but her biggest role to date has been in “Soul Surfer,” a movie about one-armed wave chaser, Bethany Hamilton.

Technically, Carrie Underwood got her start on television as a contestant on “American Idol.” After becoming a multi-platinum selling recording artist, the blonde beauty made a guest appearance on “How I Met Your Mother,” but her biggest role to date has been in “Soul Surfer,” a movie about one-armed wave chaser, Bethany Hamilton.