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To have a brilliant career, you need to get a good education. This could be called an axiom. However, life is unpredictable.
Some actors have become Hollywood stars even though they didn’t graduate from high school. Luck and talent can change lives. But not everyone who abandoned education managed to achieve such success.
10 Nicolas Cage
The actor dropped out of school 6 months before graduation. In one of the interviews, he admitted that he went there only for the theater studio. At 17, he didn’t get a role in a production of West Side Stories. This upset him. Prior to that, they staged “Our Town”. Then he also got a minor role with two lines of text, while his friend John Tortletaub played the main character.
But this not very successful start to his acting career did not make him give up his vocation, but because of this he dropped out of school.
9. Johnny Depp
The future actor was born in a dysfunctional family, his parents constantly quarreled, and his father mocked the children. Their family moved constantly until they settled in Florida.
The death of his grandfather, whom the boy loved very much, negatively affected Johnny. Already at 12 he smoked and drank, at 13 he began to have sex, and at 15 he used drugs.
But the mother saved her son by giving him a guitar. Johnny taught himself to play it and began performing in various bands.
At 16, Depp decided to drop out of school. He planned to move to Los Angeles to become a famous musician. After 2 weeks, the teenager wanted to return, but the director of the school did not accept him back.
Johnny earned, but this money was not enough for him. The case helped. His first wife, make-up artist Lori Ann Allison, introduced Depp to Nicolas Cage. He arranged for him to meet with his agent and helped him get his first movie role.
Johnny hoped that acting in films would help him stay afloat, but wanted to devote himself to music. It turned out that cinema was his calling.
8. Orlando Bloom
Orlando had unique parents: smart, well-read. His mother, Sonya Copland, was not only a businesswoman, but also a writer of books. His father, Harry Bloom, was a professor, writer and journalist (the boy later learned that his biological father was a family friend).
But the boy himself was very hard at school. During his school years, he was far from being so self-confident, often suffering from ridicule from classmates.
It was not Orlando’s fault that he studied poorly. He suffered from dysgraphia, i.e. from violations of the writing process. Such children, no matter how hard they try, cannot write correctly. they keep repeating the same mistakes.
At the age of 16, Bloom leaves school to go to London and play on the stage of the National Youth Theatre. Thus began his acting career, which was very successful.
7. Anthony Hopkins
It was also difficult for the future actor to study at school. He had dyslexia, i.e. he found it difficult to master the skills of writing and reading, but otherwise he retained the ability to learn. But then, when Anthony was growing up, there was no such diagnosis yet.
The boy was considered mentally retarded. Hopkins understood that he would not be able to get full knowledge and decided that his vocation was art. He played the piano well.
However, a meeting at the age of 15 with Richard Burton determined his fate. The Hollywood star supported Anthony, and he decided to leave school to study at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
6. Keanu Reeves
Keanu’s father left him when the boy was 3 years old. Mother often moved from place to place, got married and divorced. Most of Reeves’ childhood was spent in Toronto, where he was looked after by nannies and his mother’s parents.
It was difficult for him to study, because. the future actor suffered from dyslexia. Within 5 years he changed 4 schools. He was expelled from the art school due to excessive rebelliousness.
The boy understood that it would be difficult for him to get an education, so he connected his future with hockey. He excelled in this sport, but due to an injury, he was unable to fulfill his dream.
But she did not prevent him from starting an acting career, especially since at the age of 9 he performed in a musical, and at 15 he played Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet. Reeves never received a high school diploma, because. dropped out of school.
5. Pierce Brosnan
He had a difficult childhood. Pierce’s father, Thomas, abandoned his son when he was only 1 year old, and his mother left him with his grandmother. He grew up in the Irish city of Navan.
At first he lived with his grandmother, then with his aunt’s family, and later he was sent to a boarding school at the church. At the age of 11, he moved to London with his mother. At the new school, he had a hard time, classmates teased him as an Irishman.
But Pierce admits that, overcoming difficulties, he felt the passion for life. He did not have a good education, because. at 16, Bronson dropped out of school. But the fact that he was an outsider helped him in the future, because. gave me the power to be creative.
From the age of 16, he began working in a photo studio, and later studied acting.
4. Jude Law
Despite the fact that this talented British actor was born into a family of teachers (his father was a primary school teacher, and his mother taught English), the school was a real test for him.
Until the age of 14, he attended an ordinary educational institution. But then they decided to transfer him to a private school in Dulwich. The reason was the bullying of classmates. But even in it, Jude did not finish his studies to the end, because. I wanted to devote all my time to filming.
He performed his first role at the age of 6, in a children’s play. And at the age of 17, he got the role of a teenager Nathan in the series “Family”, because of which he decided to leave school.
3. Jim carrey
The childhood of the future comedian was not easy. When the boy was 14 years old, financial difficulties began in the family. His father lost his job and the whole family moved to Scarborough. There, Percy Kerry worked as a security guard at the factory, and his children worked as cleaners, washing not only the floors, but also the toilets.
The mother suffered from neurosis and could not help her family. Jim was the youngest of 4 children, but he also had to forget about his studies.
The boy became withdrawn, grew up without friends and he suffered from loneliness until he began performing in front of a mirror. These classes helped him first become a recognizable comedian, and then a beloved actor by many.
2. Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro had a happier fate: his parents are famous artists, he attended the best private schools. But the boy liked spending time with friends on the street more, with some of whom he still communicates.
The world of art captivated him as early as 10 years old, when he first appeared on stage, playing the role of the Lion in the fairy tale “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.”
In order to make an acting career, Robert decided to leave school at the age of 16, and at 20 he already began acting professionally.
1. Tom Cruise
Tom’s childhood was also difficult. They lived in poverty and were forced to move from place to place, due to problems with the work of the head of the family. The boy’s father was rude, unfair, he could beat his children.
Tom grew up notorious, due to his short stature and crooked teeth. By the age of 14, he had changed 15 schools. It was difficult for him to study because of dyslexia, but he later managed to cope with the disease.
A few years later, Tom found his calling – theater and sports. Later, he wanted to become a priest, because of which he dropped out of school and entered the theological seminary. But a year later he changed his mind and returned back. At the age of 16, participating in school productions, he decided to become an actor and was able to fulfill his dream.