Anna Kendrick

Anna Kendrick is an American actress and occasional singer whose musical output comes almost entirely from her film and stage work rather than a solo recording career. She first drew attention on Broadway as a teenager before moving into film, and became widely known through roles in Up in the Air and the Twilight saga. Her singing became a pop-culture moment through the Pitch Perfect franchise, where her a cappella arrangement of «Cups (When I’m Gone)» turned into an unexpected chart hit and one of the defining musical images of the 2010s.

Beyond Pitch Perfect, Kendrick has lent her voice to animated musicals such as Trolls, contributing songs including «Get Back Up Again» and «True Colors», and has performed stage and screen musical numbers for projects like The Last Five Years, where she sang «Still Hurting» and «A Summer in Ohio». Her musical persona sits closer to pop and musical theatre than to any single genre scene, built around clear, expressive vocals suited to storytelling through song.

Her place in music is thus unusual: she is primarily an actress whose singing work is tied to specific characters and film roles rather than an independent artistic identity, yet those performances have had outsized cultural reach, especially among younger audiences drawn to Pitch Perfect and its soundtrack culture.