These big-brained Ivy-League
actors prove it takes more than a pretty face to
make it in Hollywood.
Now Starring: "Yale Alumni"
By Gina LaGuardia
September 2000
The CollegeBound Network NewsClick -- Although less
than 10 percent of students who apply to the coveted
Yale University are admitted, a high number of alumni
happen to be celebrities. With admissions requirements
that average 700 on the math and verbal SATs and
30 on the ACT, these big-brained actors are proof
that it takes more than a pretty face to make it
in Hollywood!
· David Alan Grier, who got his start in
comedy on In Living Color, surely added some
colorful chuckles to his Yale classroom discussions.
(Wonder if he gave any profs' "three snaps
in a Z formation!"?)
· The truth was found in David Duchovny's
English lit' classes at Yale. Upon graduation, he
even embarked on his doctoral studies there before
X-ing out academics in order to pursue acting.
· Although he played the naive, simpleminded
Cousin Balki on Perfect Strangers, Yale alumni
Bronson Pinchot was far from lacking in his knowledge
of drama studies.
· Screen goddess Angela Bassett pumped up
her brain strength on scholarship at Yale before
getting her groove back on-screen. She spent both
her undergraduate and graduate years there.
· Big screen dynamo, Edward Norton, surely
fought a battle of the brains (unlike his physical
Fight Club scenes) while spending his academic
years at Yale. After all, he learned to speak Japanese
there and received a degree in history!
· In the case of David Hyde Pierce, real
life mirrors fiction: It's not a stretch of the
imagination to picture Frasier's Niles Crain
at Yale.
· Jodie Foster made some great "Contacts"
at Yale -- she graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1985.
So far, so good...
· Claire Danes has a totally cool college
life at Yale. She embarked on her studies there
in 1998.
· Roseanne would be proud... her TV daughter,
Sara Gilbert, majored in art and graduated with
honors and an art degree from Yale in 1997. |
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