Celebrities, when you take in the glamor and glamor and glamor and fame and fortune, are just ordinary people living their ordinary lives making a living out of one of the many professions that provide stardom.
Most of them grew up the same way we did, learned the same things, and met people the same way, but it’s always funny that these celebrities got to know each other before hitting the spotlight.
Here are 12 celebrities who went to school together.
1. Timothée Chalamet and Ansel Elgort
Both Chalamet and Elgort are Native New Yorkers, and they went to school together at LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts before breaking into the acting world around the same time.
Major Dune and West Side Story, who were both nominated for a Golden Globe in 2018, both played basketball together in high school and had a lot of the same teachers together.
2. Maya Rudolph and Gwyneth Paltrow
The SNL alumnus and founder of Goop saw both of their parents attend Tulane University together before moving to Los Angeles and continuing their friendships on the West Coast.
The two daughters, Rudolph and Paltrow, soon became friends because of their parents and went to St. Augustine by the sea in Santa Monica, California, where their friendship blossomed to where they are today.
3. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon
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Everyone knows Affleck and Damon are good friends, but what many people may not know is that they actually attended the same school together.
Both attended Cambridge Rindge School and Latin School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where they shared the same drama teacher together.
Once the couple left Boston, they went on to star alongside in multiple films and co-wrote Good Will Hunting and The Last Duel.
4. Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts
These two longtime friends met in Australia when they both attended North Sydney Girls’ High School and hit it off right away.
During an appearance on CBS’s The Early Show in 2007, Kidman revealed that Watts had been dating her sister’s boyfriend and that they had gone to “teenage parties” together and styled side by side before becoming actresses.
5. PJ Novak and John Krasinski
Before becoming office stars, these two actors attended Newton South High School in Massachusetts.
Even before that, when they were kids, they were on the same minor league baseball team, so Novak and Krasinski date back.
6. Cameron Diaz and Snoop Dogg
The famous actress and rapper The Other Woman walked the same high school halls where they both attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School in California.
Diaz and Snoop Dogg appeared on Lopez Tonight (separate times) in 2011, where the rapper revealed that he might have sold her “the white girl weed” when they went back to high school.
7. Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke
Prior to starring alongside in Black Panther and Us, these two actors had already attended Yale University together.
In fact, Nyong’o was the one who did Duke’s mentoring tour in the university, and by chance they went to see The Avengers together during their time in the university.
8. Camila Mendes and Cole Sprouse
Both Riverdale stars Mendes and Sprouse attended NYU prior to their time together on the show.
During an interview with Office magazine, Mendes revealed that she remembers seeing him around the campus.
“It was weird!” I laughed. “He had really long hair up to his cheeks.”
9. Owen Wilson and Wes Anderson
This actor and director combo got its start when they both attended the University of Texas at Austin together.
In fact, the couple got together before working alongside in The Royal Tenenbaums, The Grand Budapest Hotel and other films.
10. Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore
The Men in Black star and former Vice President first met when they both attended Harvard University where they lived together for four years.
In 2000, Jones gave his friend’s nomination speech at the Democratic National Convention and shared some gaffes about their time together in college.
He told the audience, “I lived with him for four years. What did we do? We shot pool and watched Star Trek, while we probably had to study for exams,” adding, “I’ve always known he had the brains and the heart to change the whole world.”
11. Eddie Redmayne and Prince William
During an interview with Glamor in 2015, the representative of The Fantastic Beasts revealed that he was on the Eton College rugby team with the Duke of Cambridge.
He said, “He is a wonderful man.” “I always felt a little sorry for him because everyone wanted to deal with the future King of England. He took all the beating.”
12. Prince William and Kate Middleton
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The future king met the future queen when they both attended the University of St Andrews in 2001.
The couple began dating two years later, got engaged in 2010, and married a year later.
It really is a small world, and it shows that you don’t really know where you will end in your career and who will be with you once you reach the top.
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