22 celebrities who went to college after they became famous
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Fame isn't everything. For many celebrities, getting an education is something they value, and they make sure to get their college degrees later in life.
Sometimes it means taking a break from acting or modeling, and sometimes it means continuing acting over the summer. Fortunately, their colleges were pretty amenable to them juggling school and work life. Fancy honorary degrees just don't cut it.
These 22 celebrities are an inspiration to anyone who wants to go back to school later in life and get a college degree. Here's the full list.
Emma Watson famously went to Brown while filming the "Harry Potter" movies.
Watson enrolled in 2009 and took some time off to film the "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" movies. She also spent some time at the University of Oxford, and got her degree from Brown in 2014.
Claire Danes got a letter of recommendation to Yale from Oliver Stone.
Between 1998 and 2000, Danes attended Yale University. She got a recommendation letter from Oliver Stone, who directed her in "U-Turn." The actress dropped out after a couple of years to return to acting.
James Franco is the most productive celebrity ever.
No celebrity had had as storied a relationship with higher education as James Franco. The multihyphenate enrolled in the University of California, Los Angeles in the late 1990s as an English major — reportedly with very high SAT scores — but dropped out after his first year to pursue acting.
He reenrolled in UCLA in 2006, "Freaks and Geeks" far behind him, with permission to take more than three times as many courses per semester than usual, and finished his undergraduate degree in 2008. During that period, he still found time to make "Spider-Man 3" and "Pineapple Express." UCLA selected him as the commencement speaker for the class of 2009, but he withdrew after students protested the choice.
An undergraduate degree wasn't enough for James Franco. He moved to New York and simultaneously pursued graduate degrees at Columbia University's MFA program for writing, New York University's filmmaking program, a program for creative writing at Brooklyn College, and an MFA program for writers at Warren Wilson College. Franco also pursued a doctorate at Yale University, but it isn't clear if he ever finished the program and he isn't listed in the school's student directory.
His time at school hasn't been smooth sailing. He's juggling it along with a prolific career of acting, directing, writing, and producing. He received a D in a NYU class, which led to a public tiff and lawsuit with his professor. Many classes were missed.
Franco has also taught classes in universities, including a class about James Franco. He has a 3.9 out of 5 on Rate My Professors with a red pepper hotness rating.
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