Science-loving Hollywood stars ... Know their university degrees

 Science-loving Hollywood stars ... Know their university degrees

Not all Hollywood stars graduated from universities, but most of them headed for the art path with a bag full of ambition and talent without an academic study of acting arts or other scientific or literary fields.

Many of them were satisfied with obtaining a high school diploma, but others had another life imposed on them by university studies, before we saw them on the red carpet at international film festivals.

Perhaps we need to get to know the most prominent Hollywood stars who were keen to obtain academic degrees before or during their work in the cinema.

James Franco

James Franco attended the University of California, Los Angeles in 1999, then left it to focus on acting. Yet - like many of those who missed out on school - James lamented the decision, and re-enrolled at UCSD in 2006 at the age of 26.

Franco's enthusiasm for completing the academic studies pushed him to intensify study hours annually, which ranged from 20 to 62 credit hours per semester, in conjunction with his work in the movie "Milk".

And like any hard-working student, whenever he had to travel to San Francisco to work on the film, he would ask his classmates at university to record his professors' lectures, and then listen to them at night. Until he graduated from UCLA with a BA in English within two years.

James Franco's serious work did not stop there. He moved to New York and obtained a master's degree in English from Columbia University. He also studied filmmaking at New York University, writing novels at Brooklyn College and poetry at Warren Wilson College, and is currently planning to obtain another master's degree. In English from Yale University.

Bradley Cooper

Bradley Cooper graduated from Georgetown University in 1999, with a BA in English.

When Bradley was a little boy, he initially wanted to go to military school, and as he got older he chose to pursue something more realistic like acting; So he collected all his belongings after graduation and moved to New York, where he obtained a master's degree in acting from the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in 2000. Before that degree was in Bradley's hands, he was His path has started by performing in small roles on the movie screen.

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Bradley embarked on a series of small roles in TV shows, such as The Street, Jack & Bobby, and films such as Wet Hot American Summer. Within a few years, Bradley Cooper became one of the highest-paid actors in the world, and was nominated for several Oscars.