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These stars received special attention long before being in the spotlight. Snacking on gourmet cafeteria food and leaving their towels for housekeepers, here are 15 stars who went to private or boarding school.
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Kerry Washington
Before she was the star of Scandal, Washington hung out at a place where there are plenty of scandals: an all-girls school. Washington attended the Spence School, an academy in New York City.
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Sasha and Malia Obama
The first daughters attend a school the New York Times called the Harvard of Washington’s private schools: Sidwell Friend School in D.C.
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Denzel Washington
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Washington was sent to Oakland Military Academy by his mother. The institution is a private prep school in New Windsor, New York. Washington said about the experience, “That decision changed my life because I wouldn’t have survived in the direction I was going.”
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Talib Kweli
Talib Kweli attended Cheshire Academy, a private boarding school in Connecticut. He had previously been dismissed from Brooklyn Technical High School.
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Natalie Cole
Cole attended Northfield Mount Hermon School, a college-preparatory boarding and day school in Massachusetts.
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Keshia Knight Pulliam
The Cosby Show star attended Potomac School, a co-ed college preparatory school in Virginia.
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Jeffrey Wright
The Casino Royal and Source Code actor attended St. Albans School, a college preparatory day and boarding school for boys in Washington, D.C.
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Matthew Perry
Perry attended Ashbury College, an independent day and boarding school for boys and girls in Canada.
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Owen Wilson
Wilson studied at St. Mark’s School of Texas in Dallas, a preparatory day school for grades 1-12. Unfortunately, he was kicked out before graduation and ended up finishing up at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell.
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Donald Trump
Trump attended the co-educational boarding and day school, New York Military Academy, in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York.
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Steve Carell
The Office star attended Middlesex School, a private secondary boarding school in Concord, Massachusetts.
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Glenn Close
Close attended high school at Choate Rosemary Hall, a prestigious boarding and day school in Wallingford, Connecticut.
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Jane Fonda
Fonda went to Emma Willard, an all-girls boarding and college preparatory school in Troy, New York.
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Uma Thurman
Thurman attended Northfield Mount Herman just like Natalie Cole. Since the two are nearly 20 years apart, they were not there at the same time. And unlike Cole, Thurman didn’t finish at the school. She dropped out to focus on an acting career.
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Julie Bowen
The Modern Family star went to St. George’s School, Newport in Rhode Island, a selective Episcopal private boarding school.
