There are lots of levels to fame and celebrity, including almost famous, kinda famous, famous famous and more. Any chart would have to include at its top “Mick Jagger famous.” For well over 50 years he has been the center of his own universe as frontman for the Rolling Stones, easily among the best-known people in the world.
Aside from his day job as a musician, Jagger has long had a hand in the movies as well. His early roles include a reclusive rock star in Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg’s “Performance” and the titular Australian outlaw in Tony Richardson’s “Ned Kelly.” As a producer he has been involved in such films as “Bent” and “Get On Up” and the HBO series “Vinyl.”
“The Burnt Orange Heresy,” which has returned to theaters after an abbreviated run earlier this year, marks Jagger’s first credited screen role since 2001’s “The Man From Elysian Fields.” The new film was directed by Giuseppe Capotondi and based on a novel by Charles Willeford from…