Which celebrity did you go to high school with?

What were they like?

Zendaya graduated the year before me.

Sean Patrick Flanery was a friend of a friend and Paul Begala also attended my HS, though I only got to know him later. Only two I can think of right now.

I graduated Jamestown High with Lucille Ball. God, I miss her.

My ex grew up in Sudbury, OP.

Milton Berle. He was a transgender back in the day.

r6, oh my.

Apparently, one of the characters on Girls was an upperclassmen when I was a freshman.

I meant to say the the character is based on her. I want to say it’s Brian Williams daughter.

A promiscuous teenage Shirley Booth

Jennie Garth from 90210 and Peter Billingsley from A Christmas Story.

Wallace Reid. He was a crack head.

R6 Perhaps that explains this.

R12, Years ago, Chris Evans was the kid behind the cash register at the convenience store in Sudbury, MA where I often stopped to buy a newspaper, magazine or drink.

Jesus Christ, Jeremy Strong is from Sudbury, too? Fuck, these fuckers keep ruining my hometown.

My spouse went to school with Sherilyn Fenn. Said she always wore headbands and dated much older guys. Didn’t associate with kids at school. But stunningly beautiful.

Mel Gibson

Hate to actually admit it, but . . .

Ty Fox. He was a freshman when I was a senior. Let’s be honest: Teeny-Weenie-Peenie.

A Dallas Cowboy football player who fell from grace due to substance abuse. I remember in high school during yearbook signing time he had a signature stamp and kids lined up for his “signature “, He was big man on campus.

Little Mary and I went to convent school together.

She was a shouty little bitch who’d shit in your locker as soon as look at you.

Chris Brown

Lisa Kudrow, Dave Koz, Robbie "Cousin Oliver" Rist (they were seniors, I was a freshman); Dana Plato was the actual "star" at the time, she was a year ahead of me and only attended the school for one semester. I went to middle school and high school with Justine Bateman, who was a year behind me (she started Family Ties her junior year and left the school -- I guess to be schooled on set).

I guess Robbie Rist was kind of a star at the time, also.

Narciso Rodriguez. Does it count?

r22 Do you have any interesting stories about Dana Plato or Justine Bateman?

R19, why not just name him?

r25 Unfortunately, no. I in fact only saw Dana once in the school cafeteria, hanging out with a group of African American students (it was a predominantly white school in the San Fernando Valley, and kids from the inner cities were bussed in throughout the 80s).

When I went to middle school with Justine Bateman (1979/80), she wasn't famous at all, she was just "Justine", lol. Kinda popular, friendly. I didn't see her as much in high school; the freshmen, juniors, and seniors all had their own curricula, so we didn't have any classes together like we did in middle school. I didn't watch Family Ties when it first aired, and when it was going around the school that Justine was in it, she was only at the school a couple of days a week, before finally leaving for good at the end of the first semester.

Plato.

Sid Barrett and Margret Thatcher. No kidding they were in the same class.

Kelly Palzis (Preston) RIP....... She was a good friend & we remained close up until the end......

Hillary Clinton, Maine South HS, Park Ridge, Il. 👍

Ilaria Urbinati, stylist to the stars.

Kyle Marvin, director of 80 for Brady.

Jeff Kathrein, manny for Jett Travolta

Carson Daly, whose family also lived on the same street as us. .. And yes, at some point he was telling people he had decided to go to seminary and become a Catholic priest. This upset his mother, Patty, greatly, as she wanted grandchildren. We didn't interact with them much, but his mom would go cry about this to the lady who lived next door to us, so we'd hear all about it from her.

omg gay carson....

Michael O’Keefe from Caddyshack.

[quote]Unfortunately, no. I in fact only saw Dana once in the school cafeteria, hanging out with a group of African American students (it was a predominantly white school in the San Fernando Valley, and kids from the inner cities were bussed in throughout the 80s).

Dana Plato was known for her stellar method acting. She never, ever broke out of the role as "Kimberly Drummond" while on the 'Diff'rent Strokes" series.

Dan Castellaneta, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Kathy Griffin, Amy Morton, Jane Hamilton (novelist), Helene Alexopoulos (ballerina), among others

Agnes Moorhead. She was a real witch in school. So was Marion Lorne - couldn't stand taking Latin with either of them.

Brian Hyland ("Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini")

Edie Money

Alexis Smith

Streisand - One day in choir, I told her : 'Don't get the nose job, Barbra', it will change your voice'. The rest is history.

I went to the same high school as Colin Jost.

I went to college with a famous crypto CEO, Meryl Streep's daughter, Thomas Pynchon's son, and a girl from the musical Spring Awakening.

The closest I come is my junior high nemesis, whose name I doubt anyone would recognize as he's more a working actor who's had a couple of supporting roles in TV series. I did see his face torn off in a movie once, which was far more disturbing than I'd have expected.

Not in high school, but I attended college with, and knew in passing, The Undertaker (Mark Calaway). Very nice, cool, guy. When he told everyone he was going to become a pro wrestler, we were all, sure, buddy, have another beer. I met him again after graduation, and he said he was training and participating in matches (this was late 1989 or early 1990). I thought, man, what a waste. Within a couple of years, he was hitting the big time and making millions. (I was still looking for a good job, lol).

Gillian Jacobs (a sweetheart, whip smart and super funny and cultured) and Joe Manganiello (a few years ahead of us).

R46, how did Joe find time in his busy schedule for classes?

My niece and nephew both attended Bishop DuBourg High School in St. Louis the same time as Jack Dorsey.

Peter Krause from "Six Feet Under," "Sports Night" and "Parenthood," among other things. We were friends, and I had a hopeless crush on him (he had the most unbelievable butt at that age--he had been a varsity gymnast whose specialty was the pommel horse). He was very funny and sarcastic, and he had a small group of close male friends I wasn't a part of until he got involved in theater his senior year. A nice guy, but we did not stay friends much after high school. He briefly dated my current sister-in-law.

Other people who went to my high school, but not while I was there: Loni Anderson, Richard Dean Anderson, the lead performer in Har-Mar Superstar (which is named for a horrible early 1960s mall in my hometown). Also many well-known athletes--for an obscure suburban Twin Cities high school it had a surprising number of TV stars and professional athletes who attended.

Ethel Mae Potter, we never forgot her.

ABC News anchor Leslie Sykes from one HS, ABC News Anchor Marc Brown and Bruce Lee's goddaughter, Diana Lee Inosanto from the other. All were ahead of me.

Seth Meyers! Nice dude.

R49, Did she have a sexual relationship with him?

r18, I'm not normally into blonds, but I remember he did a photoshoot for a magazine and had the most amazing golden pubes. I think he shaved them off in most of the films he was in or the awful lighting didn't pick them up.

For those who don't know him, Ty was a PE teacher who got outed as being a gay porn actor. Marriage and job gone in an instant!

Pro baseball player Jason Kipnis, the Duke Basketball Coach Jon Scheyer, and the K-Pop star John Park. Didn’t ever talk to the K-Pop star, the baseball player was a bonehead, and I hooked up with (made out and jerked each other off) the Duke coach at a house party, after which he never spoke to me again!

R56, the coach was good looking back then.

Yes he was quite hot. I’m two years older than him but knew him through Hebrew School (oy vey…). R57. He’s not bad at all now either (I just googled) but his wife is quite the typical homely JAP.

What were Chris Evans and Jeremy Strong like?

2 guys I graduated with from high school both became actors in Hollywood. No names that anyone would recognize, but character actors with hundreds of credits to their names in the past 30-35 years. One has had so much plastic surgery, we never recognize him at our reunions. Both guys were attractive in high school, got much better looking in their 20s and started off as gay male strippers in WeHo when they first arrived their in the late 80s. (Both are straight and married).

Al Lewis (Grandpa Munster)

My older brother (who was living with our divorced dad) went to Newton South High School in Massachusetts at the same time as John Krasinski and BJ Novak from THE OFFICE. He doesn't remember them, because it's a big school, but after they became famous, we learned that they were part of the same graduating class (1997).

Also, in the 1990s my mom taught at Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, MA, while John Cena was a student there, but of course he was nobody then, so like Krasinski and Novak we only realized this after the fact. Bette Davis was another famous alumni, but that was way before our time.

*alumnus

I went to university with Naomi Klein. She was hard to befriend, always a smart arse.

Chuck Grassley

Linda Loveless

I went to elementary school with dear Millie Bobby Brown, from “Stranger Things.”

Sadly, we did not socialize as she was a few years ahead of me. But I admired her greatly, then and now.

Aaron Rodgers went to my rival high school across town.

[quote] *alumnus

Not “oh dear”-ing you but as a mental exercise: Bette was an alumna and Cena an alumnus of Cushing, Krasinski and Novak are alumni of Newton South HS, while their female classmates are alumnae.

R3 here.

Forgot about Billy Stritch, who was a good friend of my sister’s, and Roger Clemens, who was before my time.

Ric Flair

R38, I wish you were in earnest. I’ve been revisiting Bewitched lately (the Dick York years only, thank you) and love those two broads.

Kyle Chandler pledged my fraternity, but I didn't really get to know him.

But he was known to be very friendly and down-to-earth - and already involved in the theater.

Lucille Ball always reeked of ciggies and booze during Algebra.

The legitimate theater, R73?

R69 That's a good way to lose a man

A sure sure sure sure way to lose a man

A splendid way to lose a man

Just throw your knowledge in his face

He'll never try for second base

😉

Judging by some of the responses on this thread, some of you must be close to a hundred years old, or you’re lying.

Buffy Sainte-Marie attended my high school.

Rachel Hunter.

R78 who?

My younger brother graduated high school with future Senator, Scott Brown.

Not the question R78. I went to the same high school as Elvira, but there was a good 25 year gap, so not really significant.

R80 . . .

R82, We had the same Spanish teacher.

I went to Pre-K with Kevin Durant.

Suitcase Killer Melanie McGuire.

A-list screenwriter Brian Lynch

Steve Carell was a few years ahead of me. I knew his brothers.

For r26

Kate McKinnon. Her family lived down the street from me, though I'm a couple years older.

Logan Browning from Dear White People and the Bratz movies. A guy I had a crush on is now a relatively well-known professional golfer.

Debra Winger and Rocky Burnette (son of Johnny Burnette).

[quote]R77 Some of you must be close to a hundred years old.

I resent that remark.

[quote]r86 Suitcase Killer Melanie McGuire.

Bless her, but she’s yesterday’s news. There’s a NEW Suitcase Killer in town!

Aaron Sorkin

Hercule Poirot.

Thank you, R88.

Earl Grey

Erle Stanley Gardner

Earl Wilson

High school - Bill Gates

College - Heather Langenkamp, Adam Schiff, Debi Thomas, Jen Grant, Andre Braugher

Forgot to add at R42, others who went to the same high school as I did: Anthony Fauci and Bill Condon. Closer to me was a current film and television series director.

Earl Campbell

Laura "Half-Pint" Wilder

I went to school with Myrna Loy.

R76 -- excellent reference (and call out!).

Abraham Lincoln

I went to Hebrew High School with the Apostle Paul. He used to hang around with Jesus and eleven other guys who called themselves 'the Apostles'. You know - the cool kids in white robes and sandals ? He said Jesus thought he was God.

Ray Liotta. Nice guy, nothing special, but not an asshole like many of the popular kids were. I played soccer with him.

My partner grew up with Amy Poehler and is still loosely in touch with her.

Did anyone go to high school with Jesus? Just wondering what he was like…

[quote] [R77] Some of you must be close to a hundred years old.

Translated: Some of you must be in your fifties!

An actress called Corinne Bohrer who had/was on some shows in the 1980s and 1990s including a stint on E/R and starring on the cute sitcom Free Spirit. She was absolutely beautiful but her brother David was HOT HOT HOT.

R80 Buffy Sainte-Marie

Rene Russo, nicest person you’ll ever meet.

I was the brightest and biggest

High school with Jesse Lee Soffer from Chicago P.D. Nice guy. Left after two years to go to a private school.

BernNadette Stanis

[quote]High school with Jesse Lee Soffer from Chicago P.D. Nice guy. Left after two years to go to a private school.

Was that around the time he played 'Bobby' in THE BRADY BUNCH MOVIE and A VERY BRADY SEQUEL?

R109, At Burlington High School this week.

Me too, R117. Same graduating class.

Stannis Baratheon. Storm’s End Academy.

Kevin Spacey and Stephen Collins. Oh wait, you meant as students didn't you?

ever see or suck cutie colin just's ass?

I don't distinguish between middle school & high school because I attended a 7th-12th grade prep school. I overlapped, one way or the other, with:

Mindy Cohn, Bridget Fonda, Tracy Nelson, Joely Fisher, Meredith Salenger, Andrea Savage, Juliette Kayyem (CNN national security analyst), Jessica Yellin (CNN White House Correspondent) and 12-time Olympic medalist, Dara Torres.

Do I win something?

Wallace Beery

Cynthia Nixon.

I ate colin just‘s ass.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. No one paid attention to him. A scrawny Samoan kid in a predominantly Japanese school. I went to school Hawai'i.

He stayed only for a year then went back to the Mainland.

If I knew back then, I would've hit it. He had a cute smile and still does.

Rick Cosnett. He had the hottest little ass and used to wear the most indecent little sports shorts to show it off

Sean Hayes.

Mickey Rooney.

I'm interested in seeing if any of you know who she is. I went to the same high school as Faith Esham. Her father was my doctor growing up. There's about twenty five years between us, but I wondered if anyone here had heard of her.

OP asked who you went to high school WITH, not if a celebrity attended your high school at some point in time.

The dude that played RuPaul’s boyfriend in AJ and the Queen was my RA in college.

R129 - Oh honey, it's not a celebrity if everyone asks WHO??

Brett Michaels went to my high school and I finally went through my Year books thinking maybe I could sell it, but it looks like I was in 9th grade when he was a senior and the high school was 10-12 grade at that time, so it’s the Year book before I got there.

The other two famous people are the guy who wrote the movies Se7en and 8 MM and a minor major league baseball player who abandoned his pet dog at home for months on end letting it starve to death, just as my state expanded its animal abuse laws and he got a very stiff jail sentence.

I went to high school with Glenda Jackson. I wonder what she's up to these days ?

R136: The ball player was Shawn Abner, who apparently went off to visit his girlfriend and did not bother to make arrangements for his senior dog, a husky named Eagle.

He says he left food and water for the animal, but he was enjoying his stay with the girlfriend so he didn't bother about the dog, letting it slowly die of thirst and starvation, whichever came first.

It's actually an unthinkably cruel act. He could have boarded the dog or at least let his neighbor, whom he was friendly with, look after Eagle.

As it was, when the neighbor finally was asked to check on the dog, he found it had become mummified and was "melting" into the wooden floor. It died next to the front door, as if it had tried to figure out how to escape. Its urine had caused the floor to buckle.

Why do these cretins get dogs if they don't care about them?

Rene Auberjonois' sister.

Talisa Soto, model and married to Benjamin Bratt was ahead of me.

She was stunningly pretty in person, she had hair down to her butt but cut it short when she started modeling.

She also changed her name, it was Miriam. She had two sisters who were almost as pretty. I wonder what her parents looked like they must have both been gorgeous.

Barely a celebrity, but Robert Giant, aka, Bobby Gonzalez.

A total douchebag filled with shame of his ethnic heritage in a town filled with Hispanics.

A hairless cat and incredibly short.

Rob Lowe, Chad Lowe, Robert Downey Jr., Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Holly Robinson Peete, Dean Cain, Chris Penn (brothers Michael and Sean had already graduated), Lee Arenberg (Pirates of the Caribbean) and Karyn Parsons (Fresh Prince of Bel Air).

I went to high school with Elizabeth Taylor, who really slew in all the plays she performed in.

Post HS I became good friends with Debbie Reynolds, who was kind of a slut.

Both chicks just have the same name as the celebrities, it’s just odd that the only two people I know with famous names are those two!

In case anyone else was wonderig...

My father, born in 1937, went to school with Bing Crosby's hell raising twin sons, they all attended Bellarmine College Preparatory. Evidently Crosby was a mean alcoholic, or so the story went.

Those boys were ungrateful little pricks. And Bing was a lousy lay!

My uncle went to High School with Sharon Stone.

R146, All four of his older sons are deceased, heart attack, lung cancer and two suicides.

Noone in high school (well, maybe a Streisand lookalike who went on to be a professional singer) but do I get any points for going to elementary school with Patty Duke?

Jennifer Ehle and a famous designer who’s designer name I no longer recall

Michael Landon, Jr.

[quote]r140 Talisa Soto, model and married to Benjamin Bratt was ahead of me.

I love her. She did a Calvin Klein campaign where she looked amazing.

Garry Shandling

I didn’t go to school with him but Darryl Hall was from our school. People started stealing his school books when his name was listed in the front. His real last name was Hohl.

R149 what elementary school did you attend that you went to school with Patty Duke?

Kimmy Cakes. She is unrecognizable now, but she was DYING to be famous.

Jeffrey Dahmer. Which explains why our graduating class kept shrinking.

Rameses II . After graduation he changed his name to The Great

[quote]R154 Darryl Hall was from our school... His real last name was Hohl.

#PresentingHohl

Christ, this isn’t the who did I go to high school with and can dox thread!

Helen Lawson's daughter...

Nobody, but I went to undergrad Tisch Drama at NYU with:

Sarah Silverman

Chandra D. Wilson

Jesse L. Martin

Antony (and the Johnsons)

and these other folks that have been in a variety of nepo baby opportunities:

Lauren Bowles

Patrick Fischler

Jeremy Shamos

Mum went with actor Martin Clunes. They weren't friends and didn't socialise. She said he was quiet, literate, conscientious as a student, nice enough but rather dull. At the time his salient ears were the most memorable thing about him. She's been quietly surprised by his success on-screen and in media, though not by his modest lifestyle.

My sister went with actress & model Wallis Day. Apparently Wallis is quite lovely and down-to-Earth, very normal and secure and unpretentious for a beautiful woman. She and my sister were friendly but not friends, and naturally lost touch. My sister never saw or knew Wallis as anything other than straight, so was a bit confused to hear of Wallis coming out and dating women.

And I didn't attend with anyone currently famous, though there were quite a few success stories out of my class in medicine and academia. The artists in my graduating year are talented but haven't hit the big time. Iirc the older brother of one of my female classmates was a principal violinist for the BBC Orchestras at one point but isn't anymore, that's as close as it gets. A handful of my former Uni classmates are semi-celebrities on the fringe U.K. comedy or politics scene now, and my older cousin (bitchy closet queen) has had a few videos of him singing go viral before.

She was there 40 years before me, but I went to the same high school as the actress who played Marilyn on the Munsters.

I went to school with Ethan Hawke.

Ed McCaffrey from the Denver Broncos and father of demi stud Christian was in my H.S. homeroom for 4 years. Christine Taylor was 2years behind me.

Billy Crudup was a grade behind me. His brother Tommy (who was a producer on The Rachel Ray show) was in my class.

[quote] Rameses II .

I just love his condoms!

r164 There were TWO Marilyn Munsters.

The most famous person to go to my high school was actually the first black homecoming queen in the history of the university I went to . . . about 12 years before I attended either. We have not had a single graduate become a household word.

R170 - With practically everyone in the world having their 15 minutes, you would think SOMEONE famous would have gone to my school at the same time I did. But nope. It was a smallish prep school in South Florida, so it just churned out the usual array of doctors and lawyers but no movie stars or even a freaking serial killer.

Donatella Versace’s former husband, American model, Paul Beck. This photo is from about 40+ years ago and is the only pic I can locate that is close to how he looked in high school. He’s 68 now. Total jock. Unsurprisingly, he was a bit of a prick.

R151, Was he as well hung as his brother Christopher?

[quote]There were TWO Marilyn Munsters.

Should I be alarmed that you know this? "Mine" was the lesser-known and original Marilyn, Beverley Ogg Owen.

He has his dad's tits, r173, but the pubic haircut is tragic.

Responding to [R155] about what school I attended with Patty Duke: Ascension School in Elmhurst, Queens, New York. She missed a lot of school because she was 'in training' with her awful abusive aunt and uncle who she was living with in preparation for Miracle Worker. (the play). Those people were evil....

[Quote] My sister went with actress & model Wallis Day. Apparently Wallis is quite lovely and down-to-Earth, very normal and secure and unpretentious for a beautiful woman. She and my sister were friendly but not friends, and naturally lost touch. My sister never saw or knew Wallis as anything other than straight, so was a bit confused to hear of Wallis coming out and dating women.

I'm pretty sure Wallis is bi and loves her coke too.

A United States ambassador whose father was also a US ambassador and an NFL star, now retired.

R176 they were not her Aunt and Uncle, they were her Managers. But yes evil 😔

A friend's sister attended a Long Island high school with DL fave Alec Baldwin. She said, he was very good looking, but didn't want to be the center of attention, she had no clue he was striving for any sort of fame.

Another friend attended a different Long Island high school with the now very successful and well-known celebrity photographer Kevin Mazur. Kevin mostly shoots musicians, he also travels with some very famous musicians on tour. IIRC, Kevin co-owns WireImage, the celebrity photo agency.

That friend told me, in high school, Kevin showed absolutely zero interest in photography, he never carried around a camera, she was shocked when she found out how successful he became. She was attending a concert, where she had close up seats, think it was for The Police or a Sting solo gig, she noticed Kevin in the photo pit. She was baffled why he was there. I told her Kevin Mazur was a well-known in-demand music photographer.

[quote] Noone in high school

Peter Noone?

R181 - Maybe they meant Kathleen Noone? But then again she hardly qualifies as a celebrity...

Jonathan Stark, who was Chris Sarrandon's "bodyguard" in Fright Night.

K Davis is such a bad actress

We had numerous mob family kids in my school, a Catholic elementary and high school three parishes over from the Italian area and two parishes over from where the Syrian parish is. Our school was where the families who were lying low sent their kids.

Not a "celebrity" per se, but I did attend middle/senior high school with the candy striper from Donna Summer's "She Works Hard for the Money" video. We were just about to graduate when that video came out.

My best friend’s Aunt went to Rochester Adams High School with Madonna.

[quote]Edie Money

You mean, Edward Mahoney??

Not a celebrity but an actor who was a regular on The Walking Dead when it was still the number one show on TV. She had a sad death on the show.

Amy Carter in grad school when I was an undergrad. Never met her.

And then the weirdest was that I’m the and age and grew up in the same city as Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett. And all the smart kids in New Orleans and throughout the whole state knew all the other smart kids from the other schools through debate, quiz bowl, academic competitions. She was not one of those kids. When she was nominated to be a Supreme Court Justice literally everyone I know went “Who?? How have I never met or heard of this person??”

Apparently she spent all her time at church events and didn’t do academic extracurricular stuff because nobody knew who she was. She didn’t participate or compete in anything. That was odd.

Deborah Norville...she was a cold-blooded cunt even then

R190, She was besties with Joan Rivers, even spoke at her funeral.

^ she was always good at sucking up to those who could help her career