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Celebrity Prep Schools
Which ~elite~, ~exclusive~, and WASPY institutions can famous celebrities, politicians, lovers of Bill Clinton peen, and paternity test aficionados call their alma maters?
Jennifer Aniston
Rudolph Steiner School, NYC, NY
"Friends" actress Aniston attended this exclusive NYC school, a Waldorf method school, before transferring to the "Fame" high school of the performing arts. In Spring 2003, the Steiner school announced they would be giving up their present address in a search for bigger quarters.
Selma Blair
Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI Actress Selma Blair, then Lizzie Beitner, went to this Michigan arts powerhouse, which was largely designed by the noted architect Saarenien. Cranbrook is school that has been declared an historic landmark noted for arts and for hockey. It has been called "one of the greatest campuses ever". Someone else wrote to say Selma Blair went to Interlochen. Sufjan Stevens also went to Interlochen.
Alexis Bledel
St. Agnes Academy, Houston, TX
Actress Bledel of "Gilmore Girls" fame went to this Houston school but was known there by her first name, Kim.
David Boreanaz
Malvern Prep, Malvern, PA
Boreanz' father is a Philadelphia television personality. The younger Boreanz went to this Catholic day school, located near Philly.
Anthony Bourdain
Dwight-Englewood, Englewood, NJ
A host of celebrities to arise up out of the New Jersey suburbs went to this school, including Dick Button, Peter Cyote, Tate Donovan, Lesley Gore, Anne Morrow [Lindbergh], Brooke Shields, and Mira Sorvino.
Steve Carell
Middlesex School, Concord, MA
Before attending Middlesex, actor Carell attended the elite junior prep school Fenn. At Middlesex, he "was a band geek" and played baritone horn.
Chevy Chase
Dalton School, NYC, NY; Riverdale Country Day School, Riverdale, the Bronx; Lawrenceville, Lawrenceville, NJ
Chase was reportedly a prankster at Dalton and got the boot for it, but the whole thing may be an urban legend, according to one correspondent. Chevy Chase also attended Riverdale, where JFK, Carly Simon, and others went. Several family members of Chevy's, including his father, went to Lawrenceville.
Cher
Montclair Prep, Van Nuys, CA; Rumsey Hall School, Washington, CT
Cher dropped out of Montclair to pursue a music career. Someone recently wrote to say Michael Jackson went there for a few years. Other celebs to go through Montclair include Brady girl Eve Plumb, Randy Spelling, Stephen Dorff, Nicole Richie, Ashley Kafagna, Vanessa Carlton, and skater Mike Kuluva. Daughter Chastity went for a time to Rumsey Hall, a Connecticut school.
Stephen Colbert
Porter-Gaud School, Charleston, SC
Political wit Colbert went to this Charleston school.
Jennifer Connelly
St. Ann's, Brooklyn Heights, NY
Connelly attended the artsy, progressive school. Other St. Ann's alums include members of the Beastie Boys, designer Zac Posen, Lola Schnabel, and Spike Lee's sister Joei Lee.
Combs, Sean John/Puffy/P Diddy/Puff Daddy
Mount Saint Michael Academy, Bronx, NY
Anderson Cooper
Dalton, New York, NY
Newscaster Cooper's name joins a long list of names associated with Dalton, either people who graduated, attended the school, or chose it for their kids. Sean Lennon is a graduate. Tracy Pollan went there and with husband Michael J. Fox, picked it for their kids.
Claire Danes
Dalton School, NYC, NY and Le Lycee Francis, Los Angeles, CA
Danes attended Dalton, as did Mary Stuart Masterson, Julie Warner, Marian Seldes, Perry Peltz, and Sean Lennon. Jennifer Grey and Michael J. Fox's wife, Tracy Pollan, were friends there. Leonard Bernstein was a big supporter of the school. Celebrity parents who have chosen Dalton for their kids incude Barbara Walters, Dustin Hoffman, Gloria Vanderbilt, Alger Hiss, Leslie Stahl, Linda Evans, and Mia Farrow. A correspondent recently wrote to say that Claire Danes also attended Le Lycee Francais in Los Angeles, where both Leelee Sobieski and Jodie Foster went.
Daniel Day Lewis
Bedales School, Hampshire, England UK
Day Lewis, the son of a renowned poet, first attended a traditional boarding school but fled for the walls of this progressive, "liberal and let it all hang out" school where students "organize themselves and work on their own."
Benicio Del Toro
Mercersburg Academy, Mercersburg, PA
The Academy Award winner went to Mercersburg Academy which Jimmy Stewart also attended.
Robert DeNiro
Rhodes Prep, NYC, NY
DeNiro grew up in New York. His father was a respected painter. Other former Rhodes students include actor James Caan, Clinton pardon beneficary Marc Rich, Alice Barrett-Mitchell of the soap "Another World" (class of 1974), legal scholar Rabbi Alan Mayor Sokobin, "Dark Shadows" actess Denise Nickerson, singer Jane Olivor, journalist Mark Kellner, "Combat" actor Rick Jason, and the late Ron Brown.
Vin Diesel
Anglo-American International School, New York, NY
Action star Vin Diesel used to be Mark Vincent and went to New York's Anglo-American International School, which merged with Dwight about a decade or so ago.
David Duchovny
Collegiate School, NYC, NY
Duchovny is an alum and married Brearley graduate Tea Leoni. Collegiate, his alma mater, is the oldest independent school in the United States and dates back nearly 400 years. Collegiate is also where American Pie creator Paul Weitz went.
Carmen Electra
School for Creative and Performing Arts, Cincinnati, OH
Carmen Electra appeared in Peter Pan with classmate Nick Lachey, who attended this school along with brother Drew and their fellow bandmate, Justin Jeffre. Another SCPA-er was Sarah Jessica Parker.
Made use of the academic curriculum of the school, particularly its Acting 101: Shitty Parody Movies course and the follow up Acting 102: Techniques and Methods on flushing away your career.
Brett Easton Ellis aka man who gave us American Psycho and consequently Christian Bales naked ass
Buckley School, Sherman Oaks, CA
Ellis wrote a novel based on his experiences at Buckley. The Roy Disney Family has a strong connection to this school, which is popular with many celebrity families. It should not be confused with the elite boy's school located in New York City. Other Buckley (California) names: Rashida Jones (Quincy Jones' daughter), Matthew Perry of "Friends," Tito Jackson, Jr., Albert Hammons, Jr. of the "Strokes," Gaby Hoffman, the Hilton sisters, Nicole Richie, Tevin Campbell, the Marcus family of Neiman Marcus, and a number of current A-List celebs' kids.
Jodie Foster
Le Lycee Francais, Los Angeles, CA
Foster attended this French school and was valedictorian. Leelee Sobieski also graduated from the school. The Lycee's program is built around a bilingual program of French and English.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Professional Children's School, NYC, NY
PCS is where many child stars head off to in NYC. The school day is organized to allow for professional commitments. One article in Us magazine placed Gellar at LaGuardia HS in NYC, the "Fame" school. She said she hated it and "got beat up pretty much every day."
Al Gore
St. Albans and National Cathedral School, Washington, DC
Gore, like Brit Hume, Jesse Jackson, Jr., and members of the Bush Family, attended the Washington, DC boys powerhouse, St. Alban's (see mention under the Bush Family). He graduated in 1965. Gore chose its all girl equivalent, National Cathedral School, for his daughters, and Sidwell Friends for his son..
Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal
Harvard-Westlake, Sherman Oaks, CA; RADA, London, England
Actor Jake went through Harvard-Westlake in Sherman Oaks, while sister Maggie briefly attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London.
Hilton Family
Buckley School, Sherman Oaks, CA, Dwight School, NYC, NY; Canterbury School, New Milford, CT; Browning School, NY, NY
Someone said Paris and Nicky both went to Le Lycee Francais in Los Angeles, but it is hard to believe Paris could cut French. That may explain another person writing to say they went to Buckley in LA (Sherman Oaks) in their earlier years but later switched to a parochial school in LA for middle school. Buckley is also where fellow "farm girl" Nicole Richie and many other celebs and celeb kids (Matthew Perry, Gaby Hoffman, et al.) go. The Hiltons ended up on the East Coast, where Nicky went to Sacred Heart. She graduated in 2001. Sacred Heart is a school in the Sacred Heart network made famous by the Kennedy girls. Paris was off to boarding school at Canterbury for about a year before transferring to Dwight in the city. She did not graduate. he Hilton girls' younger brother went to Browning.
Scarlett Johansson
Professional Children's School, NYC, NY
PCS is where many child stars head off to in NYC. The school day is organized to allow for professional commitments.
Rashida Jones
Buckley School, Sherman Oaks, CA
Quncy Jones and Peggy Lipton's daughter, Rashida, attended Buckley, as did Matthew Perry of "Friends" and perhaps Melissa Rivers.
Tommy Lee Jones
St. Mark's School of Texas, Dallas
Jones came from a troubled Texas background and attended St. Mark's on a scholarship before heading off to Harvard to play football, where he would eventually room with Al Gore. Luke and Owen Wilson went there, too.
Nick Lachey
School for Creative and Performing Arts, Cincinnati, OH
Nick Lachey attended this school along with brother Drew and their fellow bandmate, Justin Jeffre.
Tea Leoni
Brearley School, NYC, NY and the Putney School, Putney, VT
Brearley, where Leoni went, is characterized by an enviroment of "intellectual rigor, tolerance, and social activism." It used to be a feeder school for Bryn Mawr. Brearley has been called the most intellectual of NYC schools and has also been called the "Radcliffe of the secondary school world.
Sean Lennon
Le Rosey, Switzerland and the Dalton School, NYC
Sean attended spent part of his high school years at this elite Swiss school, perhaps the prep school of all prep schools, which is frequently chosen by world leaders for their children. Other Institut Le Rosey alums include the son of Elite model founder John Casablancas, Julian Casablancas (of The Strokes), Michael Korda, the Aga Khan, the Duke of Kent, and Dodi Fayed. John Kerry attended Le Rosey for awhile. Correspondents tell me that Lennon did graduate from the elite NYC school, Dalton
Monica Lewinsky
Bel Air Prep, Bel Air, CA
The star of the Clinton Administration attended here, according to Joe Eszterhas. Lewinsky also attended the Hawthorne School in California, the same school where lobbyist Jack Abramoff went
Huey Lewis
Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ
A correspondent tells me that Lewis, of Huey Lewis and the News, scored an outstanding performance on his SATs while at Lawrenceville and went on to graduate in 1967
John McCain
Episcopal H.S., Alexandria, VA
Senator John McCain described himself as a "victim" of this suburban Washington, DC school in that it left a strong impression on him and helped to shape his beliefs and values.
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Bill Murray
Loyola Academy, Wilmette, IL
Both Bill Murray and Chris O'Donnell went to this suburban Chicago prep school.
Bill Nye
Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC
The "Science Guy" went to Sidwell. The Quaker School is known for its popularity with the Washington, DC elite. It is where Chesea Clinton went to school and where various Gores, Roosevelts, and Hoovers went, and Nancy Davis Reagan, too.
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
Campbell Hall, North Hollywood, CA
A correspondent wrote to say the young actress-entrepreneurs graduated from this Episcopal school in the Class of 2004. The school is located on Laurel Canyon Boulevard.
Barack Obama
Punahou School, Honolulu, Hawaii
Barack Obama went to this private school in Honolulu which dates back to 1841.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Spence School, NYC, NY Spence
It is popular with elite NYC families. Other celebs who have picked it for their girls include Sigourney Weaver, Kevin Kline, Gabriel Byrne, Michael Bloomberg, Revlon's Ronald O. Perelman, Walter Cronkite, and Katie Couric.
Sarah Jessica Parker
School for Creative and Performing Arts, Cincinnati, OH
Parker attended this Cincinnati arts school.
Amanda Peet
Friends Seminary, NYC
Actress Amanda Peet was raised in New York and attended this low-key and highly respected Quaker prep school. Right across the bridge is Brooklyn Friends, where Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys was educated.
Matthew Perry
Buckley School, Sherman Oaks, CA
Matthew attended Buckley, as did Quncy Jones and Peggy Lipton's daughter, Rashida
Maury Povich
Landon School, Bethesda, MD
Most people know Povich as a talk show host, but he inherited his eye for journalism from his father, a late great Washington, DC sports journalist, Shirley Povich, who sent son Maury to this suburban Washington boys school, not far from the girls school where Julia Louis-Dreyfus went to school.
Jason Reitman
Harvard-Westlake School, No. Hollywood, CA
"Juno" director Reitman, Ivan's son, attended this school from which "Facts of Life" star Mindy Cohn was plucked.
Christina Ricci
Professional Children's School, NYC, NY.
Other PCS alums and graduates include Tara Reid, Jena Malone, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Julia Stiles, Gaby Hoffman, the Culkin kids, Vanessa Carlton, Rickie Lake, Phoebe Cates, Adam Arkin, Milton Berle, Sidney Lumet, Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Midori, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Christopher Walken. Gypsy Rose Lee handed out diplomas at Walken's graduation.
Nicole Richie
Montclair Prep, Van Nuys, CA; Buckley School, Sherman Oaks, CA
Hilton pal and farm star Nicole Richie has been named in association with these two schools
Brooke Shields
Dwight-Englewood School, Englewood, NJ and the Lenox School (now Lenox-Birch Wathen), NYC
Brooke Shields started out at this school before heading off to study French at Princeton.
M. Night Shyamalan
Episcopal Academy, Merion and Devon, PA
Spooky director M. Night went to this suburban Philadelphia school, as did architect Robert Venturi. Episcopal, along with Chestnut Hill, is one of several Main Line educational standouts. M. Night was the son of physician parents.
Britney Spears
Parklane Academy, McComb, Ms, and PPAS, New York City, NY
Britney attended this school only for a short period of time. Studied at Professional Performing Arts school in NYC.
Ben Stiller
Calhoun School, NYC, NY
Comedian Stiller went to Calhoun, I'm told, which is also where playwright Wendy Wasserstein went. This West-side school is described as being far more laid back and less socially oriented (i.e., competitive) than its other NYC counterparts.
Uma Thurman
Northfield Mount Hermon School, Northfield, MA
Uma is the daughter of renowned Tibetan scholar Robert Thurman. Uma attended Northfield Mt. Herman, where Natalie Cole went. The school is famous for its strong liberal tradition and is popular with successful African-Americans because of its history as a racially tolerant prep school
Trump Family
Various schools
Donald and Ivana sent their daughter to Chapin, an all-girl school described as "very high-society." She graduated from Choate, however. [Another Chapin-Choate connection is in the Hearst family. One Hearst girl went to Chapin, then switched to Choate Rosemary.] A classmate of Ivanka's at Choate was Peter Jennings' son. Donald, Jr. went to the George School in Newtown, PA. Eric Trump graduated from the Hill School ('02). Father Donald attended the New York Military Academy, where bandleader Les Brown went.
Liv Tyler
York Prep, NYC, NY
Tyler and Kelly Rector Klein (Calvin's ex) are graduates of the school, which offers horseback riding in the city. It is located near Lincoln Center. Andew Rockefeller Kluge also went there. York was the school on which a reality show about rich kids was based.
Christopher Walken
Professional Children's School, NYC, NY
Walken attended this famous school, which is also the alma mater of countless celebrities
Sigourney Weaver
Ethel Walker School, Simsbury, CT and Spence School, NYC, NY
Weaver attended the all-girl Ethel Walker School, which is where F. Scott and Zelda sent their daughter Scottie in the 1930s. But Weaver chose Spence, another all girls school, for her kids
Reese Witherspoon
Harpeth Hall, Nashville, TN
Harpeth is a girls prep school located in Nashville, TN. Like Glenn Close's dad, Witherspoon's father was a physician.
Billy Zane
Francis W. Parker School, Chicago, IL and TASIS in Lugano, Switzerland
Actor Zane ("Titanic") went to this Chicago prep school, which is where Darryl Hannah and several other celebrities went. Zane also went to TASIS, a prestigious Swiss boarding school.
Sorry for all of the typos in this post. I didn't proofread from the source since this list is so goddamn long.
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Which ~elite~, ~exclusive~, and WASPY institutions can famous celebrities, politicians, lovers of Bill Clinton peen, and paternity test aficionados call their alma maters?
Jennifer Aniston
Rudolph Steiner School, NYC, NY
"Friends" actress Aniston attended this exclusive NYC school, a Waldorf method school, before transferring to the "Fame" high school of the performing arts. In Spring 2003, the Steiner school announced they would be giving up their present address in a search for bigger quarters.
Selma Blair
Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI Actress Selma Blair, then Lizzie Beitner, went to this Michigan arts powerhouse, which was largely designed by the noted architect Saarenien. Cranbrook is school that has been declared an historic landmark noted for arts and for hockey. It has been called "one of the greatest campuses ever". Someone else wrote to say Selma Blair went to Interlochen. Sufjan Stevens also went to Interlochen.
Alexis Bledel
St. Agnes Academy, Houston, TX
Actress Bledel of "Gilmore Girls" fame went to this Houston school but was known there by her first name, Kim.
David Boreanaz
Malvern Prep, Malvern, PA
Boreanz' father is a Philadelphia television personality. The younger Boreanz went to this Catholic day school, located near Philly.
Anthony Bourdain
Dwight-Englewood, Englewood, NJ
A host of celebrities to arise up out of the New Jersey suburbs went to this school, including Dick Button, Peter Cyote, Tate Donovan, Lesley Gore, Anne Morrow [Lindbergh], Brooke Shields, and Mira Sorvino.
Steve Carell
Middlesex School, Concord, MA
Before attending Middlesex, actor Carell attended the elite junior prep school Fenn. At Middlesex, he "was a band geek" and played baritone horn.
Chevy Chase
Dalton School, NYC, NY; Riverdale Country Day School, Riverdale, the Bronx; Lawrenceville, Lawrenceville, NJ
Chase was reportedly a prankster at Dalton and got the boot for it, but the whole thing may be an urban legend, according to one correspondent. Chevy Chase also attended Riverdale, where JFK, Carly Simon, and others went. Several family members of Chevy's, including his father, went to Lawrenceville.
Cher
Montclair Prep, Van Nuys, CA; Rumsey Hall School, Washington, CT
Cher dropped out of Montclair to pursue a music career. Someone recently wrote to say Michael Jackson went there for a few years. Other celebs to go through Montclair include Brady girl Eve Plumb, Randy Spelling, Stephen Dorff, Nicole Richie, Ashley Kafagna, Vanessa Carlton, and skater Mike Kuluva. Daughter Chastity went for a time to Rumsey Hall, a Connecticut school.
Stephen Colbert
Porter-Gaud School, Charleston, SC
Political wit Colbert went to this Charleston school.
Jennifer Connelly
St. Ann's, Brooklyn Heights, NY
Connelly attended the artsy, progressive school. Other St. Ann's alums include members of the Beastie Boys, designer Zac Posen, Lola Schnabel, and Spike Lee's sister Joei Lee.
Combs, Sean John/Puffy/P Diddy/Puff Daddy
Mount Saint Michael Academy, Bronx, NY
Anderson Cooper
Dalton, New York, NY
Newscaster Cooper's name joins a long list of names associated with Dalton, either people who graduated, attended the school, or chose it for their kids. Sean Lennon is a graduate. Tracy Pollan went there and with husband Michael J. Fox, picked it for their kids.
Claire Danes
Dalton School, NYC, NY and Le Lycee Francis, Los Angeles, CA
Danes attended Dalton, as did Mary Stuart Masterson, Julie Warner, Marian Seldes, Perry Peltz, and Sean Lennon. Jennifer Grey and Michael J. Fox's wife, Tracy Pollan, were friends there. Leonard Bernstein was a big supporter of the school. Celebrity parents who have chosen Dalton for their kids incude Barbara Walters, Dustin Hoffman, Gloria Vanderbilt, Alger Hiss, Leslie Stahl, Linda Evans, and Mia Farrow. A correspondent recently wrote to say that Claire Danes also attended Le Lycee Francais in Los Angeles, where both Leelee Sobieski and Jodie Foster went.
Daniel Day Lewis
Bedales School, Hampshire, England UK
Day Lewis, the son of a renowned poet, first attended a traditional boarding school but fled for the walls of this progressive, "liberal and let it all hang out" school where students "organize themselves and work on their own."
Benicio Del Toro
Mercersburg Academy, Mercersburg, PA
The Academy Award winner went to Mercersburg Academy which Jimmy Stewart also attended.
Robert DeNiro
Rhodes Prep, NYC, NY
DeNiro grew up in New York. His father was a respected painter. Other former Rhodes students include actor James Caan, Clinton pardon beneficary Marc Rich, Alice Barrett-Mitchell of the soap "Another World" (class of 1974), legal scholar Rabbi Alan Mayor Sokobin, "Dark Shadows" actess Denise Nickerson, singer Jane Olivor, journalist Mark Kellner, "Combat" actor Rick Jason, and the late Ron Brown.
Vin Diesel
Anglo-American International School, New York, NY
Action star Vin Diesel used to be Mark Vincent and went to New York's Anglo-American International School, which merged with Dwight about a decade or so ago.
David Duchovny
Collegiate School, NYC, NY
Duchovny is an alum and married Brearley graduate Tea Leoni. Collegiate, his alma mater, is the oldest independent school in the United States and dates back nearly 400 years. Collegiate is also where American Pie creator Paul Weitz went.
Carmen Electra
School for Creative and Performing Arts, Cincinnati, OH
Carmen Electra appeared in Peter Pan with classmate Nick Lachey, who attended this school along with brother Drew and their fellow bandmate, Justin Jeffre. Another SCPA-er was Sarah Jessica Parker.
Made use of the academic curriculum of the school, particularly its Acting 101: Shitty Parody Movies course and the follow up Acting 102: Techniques and Methods on flushing away your career.
Brett Easton Ellis aka man who gave us American Psycho and consequently Christian Bales naked ass
Buckley School, Sherman Oaks, CA
Ellis wrote a novel based on his experiences at Buckley. The Roy Disney Family has a strong connection to this school, which is popular with many celebrity families. It should not be confused with the elite boy's school located in New York City. Other Buckley (California) names: Rashida Jones (Quincy Jones' daughter), Matthew Perry of "Friends," Tito Jackson, Jr., Albert Hammons, Jr. of the "Strokes," Gaby Hoffman, the Hilton sisters, Nicole Richie, Tevin Campbell, the Marcus family of Neiman Marcus, and a number of current A-List celebs' kids.
Jodie Foster
Le Lycee Francais, Los Angeles, CA
Foster attended this French school and was valedictorian. Leelee Sobieski also graduated from the school. The Lycee's program is built around a bilingual program of French and English.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Professional Children's School, NYC, NY
PCS is where many child stars head off to in NYC. The school day is organized to allow for professional commitments. One article in Us magazine placed Gellar at LaGuardia HS in NYC, the "Fame" school. She said she hated it and "got beat up pretty much every day."
Al Gore
St. Albans and National Cathedral School, Washington, DC
Gore, like Brit Hume, Jesse Jackson, Jr., and members of the Bush Family, attended the Washington, DC boys powerhouse, St. Alban's (see mention under the Bush Family). He graduated in 1965. Gore chose its all girl equivalent, National Cathedral School, for his daughters, and Sidwell Friends for his son..
Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal
Harvard-Westlake, Sherman Oaks, CA; RADA, London, England
Actor Jake went through Harvard-Westlake in Sherman Oaks, while sister Maggie briefly attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London.
Hilton Family
Buckley School, Sherman Oaks, CA, Dwight School, NYC, NY; Canterbury School, New Milford, CT; Browning School, NY, NY
Someone said Paris and Nicky both went to Le Lycee Francais in Los Angeles, but it is hard to believe Paris could cut French. That may explain another person writing to say they went to Buckley in LA (Sherman Oaks) in their earlier years but later switched to a parochial school in LA for middle school. Buckley is also where fellow "farm girl" Nicole Richie and many other celebs and celeb kids (Matthew Perry, Gaby Hoffman, et al.) go. The Hiltons ended up on the East Coast, where Nicky went to Sacred Heart. She graduated in 2001. Sacred Heart is a school in the Sacred Heart network made famous by the Kennedy girls. Paris was off to boarding school at Canterbury for about a year before transferring to Dwight in the city. She did not graduate. he Hilton girls' younger brother went to Browning.
Scarlett Johansson
Professional Children's School, NYC, NY
PCS is where many child stars head off to in NYC. The school day is organized to allow for professional commitments.
Rashida Jones
Buckley School, Sherman Oaks, CA
Quncy Jones and Peggy Lipton's daughter, Rashida, attended Buckley, as did Matthew Perry of "Friends" and perhaps Melissa Rivers.
Tommy Lee Jones
St. Mark's School of Texas, Dallas
Jones came from a troubled Texas background and attended St. Mark's on a scholarship before heading off to Harvard to play football, where he would eventually room with Al Gore. Luke and Owen Wilson went there, too.
Nick Lachey
School for Creative and Performing Arts, Cincinnati, OH
Nick Lachey attended this school along with brother Drew and their fellow bandmate, Justin Jeffre.
Tea Leoni
Brearley School, NYC, NY and the Putney School, Putney, VT
Brearley, where Leoni went, is characterized by an enviroment of "intellectual rigor, tolerance, and social activism." It used to be a feeder school for Bryn Mawr. Brearley has been called the most intellectual of NYC schools and has also been called the "Radcliffe of the secondary school world.
Sean Lennon
Le Rosey, Switzerland and the Dalton School, NYC
Sean attended spent part of his high school years at this elite Swiss school, perhaps the prep school of all prep schools, which is frequently chosen by world leaders for their children. Other Institut Le Rosey alums include the son of Elite model founder John Casablancas, Julian Casablancas (of The Strokes), Michael Korda, the Aga Khan, the Duke of Kent, and Dodi Fayed. John Kerry attended Le Rosey for awhile. Correspondents tell me that Lennon did graduate from the elite NYC school, Dalton
Monica Lewinsky
Bel Air Prep, Bel Air, CA
The star of the Clinton Administration attended here, according to Joe Eszterhas. Lewinsky also attended the Hawthorne School in California, the same school where lobbyist Jack Abramoff went
Huey Lewis
Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ
A correspondent tells me that Lewis, of Huey Lewis and the News, scored an outstanding performance on his SATs while at Lawrenceville and went on to graduate in 1967
John McCain
Episcopal H.S., Alexandria, VA
Senator John McCain described himself as a "victim" of this suburban Washington, DC school in that it left a strong impression on him and helped to shape his beliefs and values.
Bill Murray
Loyola Academy, Wilmette, IL
Both Bill Murray and Chris O'Donnell went to this suburban Chicago prep school.
Bill Nye
Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC
The "Science Guy" went to Sidwell. The Quaker School is known for its popularity with the Washington, DC elite. It is where Chesea Clinton went to school and where various Gores, Roosevelts, and Hoovers went, and Nancy Davis Reagan, too.
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
Campbell Hall, North Hollywood, CA
A correspondent wrote to say the young actress-entrepreneurs graduated from this Episcopal school in the Class of 2004. The school is located on Laurel Canyon Boulevard.
Barack Obama
Punahou School, Honolulu, Hawaii
Barack Obama went to this private school in Honolulu which dates back to 1841.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Spence School, NYC, NY Spence
It is popular with elite NYC families. Other celebs who have picked it for their girls include Sigourney Weaver, Kevin Kline, Gabriel Byrne, Michael Bloomberg, Revlon's Ronald O. Perelman, Walter Cronkite, and Katie Couric.
Sarah Jessica Parker
School for Creative and Performing Arts, Cincinnati, OH
Parker attended this Cincinnati arts school.
Amanda Peet
Friends Seminary, NYC
Actress Amanda Peet was raised in New York and attended this low-key and highly respected Quaker prep school. Right across the bridge is Brooklyn Friends, where Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys was educated.
Matthew Perry
Buckley School, Sherman Oaks, CA
Matthew attended Buckley, as did Quncy Jones and Peggy Lipton's daughter, Rashida
Maury Povich
Landon School, Bethesda, MD
Most people know Povich as a talk show host, but he inherited his eye for journalism from his father, a late great Washington, DC sports journalist, Shirley Povich, who sent son Maury to this suburban Washington boys school, not far from the girls school where Julia Louis-Dreyfus went to school.
Jason Reitman
Harvard-Westlake School, No. Hollywood, CA
"Juno" director Reitman, Ivan's son, attended this school from which "Facts of Life" star Mindy Cohn was plucked.
Christina Ricci
Professional Children's School, NYC, NY.
Other PCS alums and graduates include Tara Reid, Jena Malone, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Julia Stiles, Gaby Hoffman, the Culkin kids, Vanessa Carlton, Rickie Lake, Phoebe Cates, Adam Arkin, Milton Berle, Sidney Lumet, Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Midori, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Christopher Walken. Gypsy Rose Lee handed out diplomas at Walken's graduation.
Nicole Richie
Montclair Prep, Van Nuys, CA; Buckley School, Sherman Oaks, CA
Hilton pal and farm star Nicole Richie has been named in association with these two schools
Brooke Shields
Dwight-Englewood School, Englewood, NJ and the Lenox School (now Lenox-Birch Wathen), NYC
Brooke Shields started out at this school before heading off to study French at Princeton.
M. Night Shyamalan
Episcopal Academy, Merion and Devon, PA
Spooky director M. Night went to this suburban Philadelphia school, as did architect Robert Venturi. Episcopal, along with Chestnut Hill, is one of several Main Line educational standouts. M. Night was the son of physician parents.
Britney Spears
Parklane Academy, McComb, Ms, and PPAS, New York City, NY
Britney attended this school only for a short period of time. Studied at Professional Performing Arts school in NYC.
Ben Stiller
Calhoun School, NYC, NY
Comedian Stiller went to Calhoun, I'm told, which is also where playwright Wendy Wasserstein went. This West-side school is described as being far more laid back and less socially oriented (i.e., competitive) than its other NYC counterparts.
Uma Thurman
Northfield Mount Hermon School, Northfield, MA
Uma is the daughter of renowned Tibetan scholar Robert Thurman. Uma attended Northfield Mt. Herman, where Natalie Cole went. The school is famous for its strong liberal tradition and is popular with successful African-Americans because of its history as a racially tolerant prep school
Trump Family
Various schools
Donald and Ivana sent their daughter to Chapin, an all-girl school described as "very high-society." She graduated from Choate, however. [Another Chapin-Choate connection is in the Hearst family. One Hearst girl went to Chapin, then switched to Choate Rosemary.] A classmate of Ivanka's at Choate was Peter Jennings' son. Donald, Jr. went to the George School in Newtown, PA. Eric Trump graduated from the Hill School ('02). Father Donald attended the New York Military Academy, where bandleader Les Brown went.
Liv Tyler
York Prep, NYC, NY
Tyler and Kelly Rector Klein (Calvin's ex) are graduates of the school, which offers horseback riding in the city. It is located near Lincoln Center. Andew Rockefeller Kluge also went there. York was the school on which a reality show about rich kids was based.
Christopher Walken
Professional Children's School, NYC, NY
Walken attended this famous school, which is also the alma mater of countless celebrities
Sigourney Weaver
Ethel Walker School, Simsbury, CT and Spence School, NYC, NY
Weaver attended the all-girl Ethel Walker School, which is where F. Scott and Zelda sent their daughter Scottie in the 1930s. But Weaver chose Spence, another all girls school, for her kids
Reese Witherspoon
Harpeth Hall, Nashville, TN
Harpeth is a girls prep school located in Nashville, TN. Like Glenn Close's dad, Witherspoon's father was a physician.
Billy Zane
Francis W. Parker School, Chicago, IL and TASIS in Lugano, Switzerland
Actor Zane ("Titanic") went to this Chicago prep school, which is where Darryl Hannah and several other celebrities went. Zane also went to TASIS, a prestigious Swiss boarding school.
Sorry for all of the typos in this post. I didn't proofread from the source since this list is so goddamn long.
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