Latest Shocking Entertainment News: Dakota! Emma! Former Child Stars Who Went to College After Getting Famous
Lights, camera, education! Emma Watson, Natalie Portman and Miranda Cosgrove are among the child stars who decided to get college degrees amid their fame.
Watson graduated from Brown University with a bachelor’s degree in English literature in 2014. During a November 2010 interview with Marie Claire, the Harry Potter franchise star reflected on her freshman year at the Ivy League school.
“Brown has a real sense of community and people are very protective of me,” she shared at the time, praising her classmates for respecting her privacy. “They really look out for me; they want me to feel like I’m part of it. I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn’t even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I’d found a solid group of friends, and I felt like I belonged.”
One month ahead of her May 2014 graduation from the prestigious university, the Little Women actress told Elle that she’d been warned it “wasn’t possible” to complete her degree while pursuing acting.
“I kept saying, ‘I don’t care.’ This is what I want. And graduating will, for me, be really symbolic of all of that,” she said, adding that would be “throwing a huge party” and “getting very drunk” after receiving her diploma.
Portman, for her part, graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 2003. The Black Swan actress enrolled at the school just after appearing in Star Wars: Episode 1 and feared that her classmates wouldn’t take her seriously.
“When I came in as a freshman in 1999, I felt like there had been some mistake, that I wasn’t smart enough to be in this company,” she admitted while serving as the keynote speaker at Harvard’s Class Day in May 2014.
The Oscar winner confessed that although she had once dismissed show business as “frivolous,” her time studying psychology helped her realize that acting is her true passion.
“I admitted to myself I couldn’t wait to go back and make more films,” she said. “I had reclaimed my reason.”
Cosgrove, meanwhile, began attending the University of Southern California in 2012, the same year iCarly’s final episode aired. The Drake & Josh alum opened up about the “weirdest part” of attending college as a public figure during a September 2014 interview with ABC News.
“I’ll go on Instagram or the Internet and there will be pictures of me from school that random people took and I didn’t know they took,” she shared. “So, that can be kind of weird sometimes.”
The “Kissin U” songstress, who switched majors several times before landing on psychology, added that her fame also helped her make new friends on campus.
“People come up to me and introduce themselves and it kind of opens the door, so that part of it’s nice,” she added. “I feel like I’m not the kind of person that would just go up to somebody and introduce myself, so, it’s helped me in a lot of ways.”
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The Beauty and the Beast star graduated from Brown University in 2014 with a degree in English literature. Richard Young/Shutterstock
Osment garnered critical acclaim as a young actor for his roles in films including Forrest Gump, The Sixth Sense and Secondhand Lions. He graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2011. In July 2020, the Pay It Forward actor told The Guardian that attending college helped him “figure out whether [acting] was what I truly wanted to do for the rest of my life.” Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock
Foster was just 14 when she received an Oscar nomination for her role in Taxi Driver in 1977. The Silence of the Lambs actress went on to attend Yale University, graduating with a degree in African-American literature in 1985. “This place means more to me than almost any place else,” the California native said of her alma mater while accepting the Yale Undergraduates’ Lifetime Achievement Award in April 2018. “I came to Yale and the second I walked on campus it was like I had just found the love of my life.” Allison Dinner/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
The twin brothers both graduated from New York University in 2015, 10 years after their show The Suite Life of Zack & Cody premiered on Disney Channel. Cole studied archaeology while Dylan focused on video game design. “We chose NYU because their arts program was great and they’re a prestigious institution, but really because you’re in a city,” the Riverdale star told Teen Vogue in June 2015. “You’re involved in a completely different way of life. You didn’t feel trapped within a campus or in a bubble.” Matt Baron/Shutterstock
The Garden State actress graduated from Harvard with a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 2003. CraSH/Shutterstock
The Alienist actress had already starred in films including Uptown Girls, Man on Fire, Hide and Seek and Charlotte’s Web when she enrolled at NYU in 2011. “I’ve been studying film and the portrayal of women in film,” Fanning said during a March 2018 appearance on the Today show. “It’s taken me longer to graduate, but I’ve been doing other things at the same time. It’s something that’s important to me and I know I’ll be happy when I’ve accomplished it.” Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock
One year after the 1999 season finale of Home Improvement — in which Thomas played one of Tim Allen’s sons — the Pennsylvania native enrolled at Harvard, where he studied philosophy and history. In 2010, the Bradys alum graduated from Columbia University. Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock
The Nickelodeon star attended the University of Southern California after iCarly ended in 2012. Anthony Harvey/Shutterstock
The Disney Channel alum began attending Barnard College in 2003. "Even Stevens ended the summer before my start at an Ivy League school that fall. I was thrilled to enter a new world and was suddenly surrounded by so many different types of people my age; not just child stars with momagers," Carlson Romano wrote in a May 2019 essay for Teen Vogue. "I put on a brave face but still felt out of place, like a misfit.” The Cadet Kelly actress took her time getting her degree and met husband Brendan Rooney in a screenwriting class in 2011. In May 2015, she celebrated her graduation. “Just graduated from college after 12 years!!” she wrote via Instagram at the time. “Thank you #barnardcollege for believing in me and encouraging me to stay true to the strong woman I have always been. I won't let you down!! Thank you to my husband @brenroon13 for also supporting me unconditionally. You are my heart and soul. My family for holding me to my word. To the #classof2015 Love light and the future!!” Rob Latour/Shutterstock
The Sun Is Also a Star actress graduated from Harvard in 2022 with a degree in African American Studies. The milestone came the same year that Black-ish — in which Shahidi played Zoey Johnson — came to an end after 8 seasons. “I’ve known I wanted to go to college since I was four. By 17, I knew exactly what I wanted to study, so to see that come to fruition is a goal fulfilled,” the Minnesota native told Vogue after her graduation. Earl Gibson III/Shutterstock
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