Celebrity Yearbook Photos: How Many Can You Name?
Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr., also known as Snoop Dogg, graduated from Long Beach Polytechnic High School, which also had fellow rappers Nate Dogg (his cousin) and Warren G as students. Snoop played piano and sang at his local Baptist church before starting to rap in sixth grade. After high school, he went on to have a hugely successful career in music and TV, and is also a cannabis entrepreneur. He is also pretty close pals with Martha Stewart!
Long before he was dating superstar Jennifer Lopez, Alex Rodriguez was a student at Westminster Christian School in Miami, Florida. Seen here in his junior year photo from 1992, Rodriguez played football and baseball, hitting .477 and stealing 42 bases during his junior year. He went pro at age 18 when he signed a three-year, $1.3 million contract with baseball team the Seattle Mariners.
Actor Matt Damon attended the Cambridge Rindge & Latin School, a public high school in Boston, alongside his friend and fellow actor Ben Affleck. Damon then went to Harvard to study English, but dropped out to pursue acting full-time. He hit it big when he and Affleck wrote and starred in the 1997 film “Good Will Hunting,” which won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1998.
Seen here working on a chemistry experiment her senior year of high school, actress Jennifer Garner graduated from George Washington High School in Charleston, West Virginia, in 1990. While in school, she played saxophone in the marching band and was water girl for the football team. Garner then attended Denison University in Ohio, where she graduated with a degree in theater in 1996.
Seen here in 1974, her sophomore year at Rochester Adams High School in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna Louise Ciccone was a straight-A student, cheerleader and dancer. She also graduated from high school a semester earlier than her peers and in 1976 was offered a full scholarship to the University of Michigan’s dance program. She dropped out of college two years later to move to New York City and further her dance career. Madonna released her first pop album in 1983 and the rest is history.
Actor Jake Gyllenhaal graduated from Harvard-Westlake High School in North Hollywood, California, then studied for one year at Columbia University in New York before dropping out to pursue acting. In this photo, Gyllenhaal is in his sophomore year of high school in 1996, acting in a school play titled “Giants in the Sky.” Today, Gyllenhaal has been in films ranging from “Donnie Darko” to “The Day After Tomorrow” and received an Academy Award nomination for “Brokeback Mountain” in 2006.
Seen here in 1991, her junior year, actress Amy Adams attended Douglas County High School in Castle Rock, Colorado, after her family moved to the United States from Italy when she was 8 years old. Adams sang in the school choir and trained as an apprentice at a local dance company, as she wanted to be a ballerina. She later decided to pursue a career in musical theater instead. After a time in Minnesota doing theater, she moved to Los Angeles and her career took off.
Actor and producer Brad Pitt graduated with the class of 1982 from Kickapoo High School in Springfield, Missouri. Despite playing a baseball coach in the film “Moneyball,” while in school Pitt actually wrestled and was a diver on the swim team. Following graduation, he studied journalism at the University of Missouri before dropping out just two credits shy of his degree to pursue acting in Los Angeles.
Actress Cameron Diaz graduated in 1990 from Long Beach Polytechnic High School in Long Beach, California — the same school as Snoop Dogg! She was a cheerleader and began a modeling career at age 16. Diaz transitioned to acting and went on to star in numerous films like “There’s Something About Mary” and “Charlie’s Angels.”
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Celebrity tidbits...
- Britney Spears was in an all-female group called Innosense before she went solo.
- Akon owns a South African diamond mine.
- Matthew McConaghay is afraid of revolving doors.
- Kate Bosworth has heterochromia. One of her eyes is blue and the other one is hazel.
- Alicia Silverstone pre-chews food for her child.
- Gwenyth Paltrow and Maya Rudolph have been best friends since they were seven. Their dads were friends in college.
- Kim Basinger bought a town in 1989 to turn it into a tourist attraction, but ended up selling it five years later.
- Rob Lowe is deaf in his right ear after he got the mumps at age eight.
- Jon Bon Jovi's birth name was John Bongiovi Jr.
- When Justin Timberlake and Ryan Gosling were on the Mickey Mouse Club, Justin's mother was Ryan's legal guardian.
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