Alma Maters of Actors
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- Adam Sandler:
New York University
(New York, NY)
- Adam West:
Whitman College
(Walla Walla, WA)
- Allison Janney:
Kenyon College
(Gambier, OH)
- Andy Samberg:
New York University
(New York, NY)
- Angela Bassett:
Yale University
(New Haven, CT)
- Anna Faris:
University of Washington
(Seattle, WA)
- Anna Paquin:
Columbia University
(New York, NY)
- Annette Bening:
San Francisco State University
(San Francisco, CA)
- Annie Potts:
Stephens College
(Columbia, MO)
- Ashton Kutcher:
University of Iowa
(Iowa City, IA)
- Beau Bridges:
University of Hawaii -- Manoa
(Honolulu, HI)
- Bill Mahr:
Cornell University
(Ithaca, NY)
- Billy Crudup:
University of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill
(Chapel Hill, NC)
- Billy Crystal:
Nassau Community College
(Garden City, NY)
- Blair Underwood:
Carnegie Mellon University
(Pittsburgh, PA)
- Blythe Danner:
Bard College
(Annandale on Hudson, NY)
- Brad Pitt:
University of Missouri -- Columbia
(Columbia, MO)
- Bradley Cooper:
Georgetown University
(Washington, DC)
- Brooke Shields:
Princeton University
(Princeton, NJ)
- Bruce Lee:
University of Washington
(Seattle, WA)
- Bryce Dallas Howard:
New York University
(New York, NY)
- Calista Flockhart:
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey -- New Brunswick
(Piscataway, NJ)
- Chevy Chase:
Bard College
(Annandale on Hudson, NY)
- Chris Farley:
Marquette University
(Milwaukee, WI)
- Chris Noth:
Yale University
(New Haven, CT)
- Chris O'Donnell:
Boston College
(Chestnut Hill, MA)
- Chris Pine:
University of California -- Berkeley
(Berkeley, CA)
- Christopher Reeve:
Cornell University
(Ithaca, NY)
- Christopher Walken:
Hofstra University
(Hempstead, NY)
- Clint Eastwood:
Los Angeles City College
(Los Angeles, CA)
- Courtney B. Vance:
Harvard University
(Cambridge, MA)
- Cynthia Nixon:
Barnard College
(New York, NY)
- Daniel Dae Kim:
Bryn Mawr College
(Bryn Mawr, PA)
- David Boreanaz:
Ithaca College
(Ithaca, NY)
- David Duchovny:
Princeton University
(Princeton, NJ)
- David Hyde Pierce:
Yale University
(New Haven, CT)
- Debra Messing:
Brandeis University
(Waltham, MA)
- Denzel Washington:
Fordham University
(New York, NY)
- Dom DeLuise:
Bates College
(Lewiston, ME)
- Don Cheadle:
California Institute of the Arts
(Valencia, CA)
- Dustin Hoffman:
Santa Monica College
(Santa Monica, CA)
- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson:
University of Miami
(Coral Gables, FL)
- Ed Harris:
California Institute of the Arts
(Valencia, CA)
- Ed Norton:
Yale University
(New Haven, CT)
- Elizabeth Banks:
University of Pennsylvania
(Philadelphia, PA)
- Elizabeth Mitchell:
Stephens College
(Columbia, MO)
- Ethan Hawke:
Carnegie Mellon University
(Pittsburgh, PA)
- Fred Savage:
Stanford University
(Stanford, CA)
- Geena Davis:
Boston University
(Boston, MA)
- George Clooney:
Northern Kentucky University
(Highland Heights, KY)
- Glenn Close:
College of William and Mary
(Williamsburg, VA)
- Hank Azaria:
Tufts University
(Medford, MA)
- Harrison Ford:
Ripon College
(Ripon, WI)
- Henry Winkler:
Emerson College
(Boston, MA)
- Hugh Grant: Oxford University (Oxford, GBR)
- James Earl Jones:
University of Michigan -- Ann Arbor
(Ann Arbor, MI)
- James Franco:
Warren Wilson College
(Asheville, NC)
- Jennifer Beals:
Yale University
(New Haven, CT)
- Jennifer Garner:
Denison University
(Granville, OH)
- Jennifer Tilly:
Stephens College
(Columbia, MO)
- Jeremy Piven:
Drake University
(Des Moines, IA)
- Jerry Seinfeld:
CUNY -- Queens College
(Flushing, NY)
- Jim Belushi:
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale
(Carbondale, IL)
- Jodie Foster:
Yale University
(New Haven, CT)
- John C. Reilly:
DePaul University
(Chicago, IL)
- John Cho:
University of California -- Berkeley
(Berkeley, CA)
- John Corbett:
Cerritos College
(Norwalk, CA)
- John Lithgow:
Harvard University
(Cambridge, MA)
- Jon Hamm:
University of Missouri -- Columbia
(Columbia, MO)
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt:
Columbia University
(New York, NY)
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus:
Northwestern University
(Evanston, IL)
- Julia Stiles:
Columbia University
(New York, NY)
- Julianna Margulies:
Sarah Lawrence College
(Bronxville, NY)
- Katharine Hepburn:
Bryn Mawr College
(Bryn Mawr, PA)
- Kevin Costner:
California State University -- Fullerton
(Fullerton, CA)
- Kevin Nealon:
Sacred Heart University
(Fairfield, CT)
- Kirk Douglas:
St. Lawrence University
(Canton, NY)
- Kristin Davis:
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey -- New
(Piscataway, NJ)
- Larry David:
University of Maryland -- College Park
(College Park, MD)
- Laura Linney:
Brown University
(Providence, RI)
- Lauren Graham:
Southern Methodist University
(Dallas, TX)
- Lisa Kudrow:
Vassar College
(Poughkeepsie, NY)
- Lou Gossett, Jr.:
New York University
(New York, NY)
- Mary Louise Parker:
North Carolina School of the Arts
(Winston-Salem, NC)
- Matthew Fox:
Columbia University
(New York, NY)
- Meryl Streep:
Vassar College
(Poughkeepsie, NY)
- Michael C. Hall:
Earlham College
(Richmond, IN)
- Michael Douglas:
University of California -- Santa Barbara
(Santa Barbara, CA)
- Michael Emerson:
Drake University
(Des Moines, IA)
- Monique Coleman:
DePaul University
(Chicago, IL)
- Natalie Portman:
Harvard University
(Cambridge, MA)
- Olivia de Havilland:
Mills College
(Oakland, CA)
- Paul Michael Glaser:
Tulane University
(New Orleans, LA)
- Paul Newman:
Kenyon College
(Gambier, OH)
- Paul Rudd:
University of Kansas
(Lawrence, KS)
- Paula Zahn:
Stephens College
(Columbia, MO)
- Philip Seymour Hoffman:
New York University
(New York, NY)
- Phylicia Ayers-Allen Rashad:
Howard University
(Washington, DC)
- Reese Witherspoon:
Stanford University
(Stanford, CA)
- Reiko Aylesworth:
University of Washington
(Seattle, WA)
- Renee Zellweger:
University of Texas -- Austin
(Austin, TX)
- Rob Estes:
University of Southern California
(Los Angeles, CA)
- Robert Klein:
Alfred University
(Alfred, NY)
- Robert Redford:
University of Colorado -- Boulder
(Boulder, CO)
- Robert Wuhl:
University of Houston
(Houston, TX)
- Robin Williams:
Juilliard School
(New York, NY)
- Samuel L. Jackson:
Morehouse College
(Atlanta, GA)
- Sandra Bullock:
East Carolina University
(Greenville, NC)
- Scott Glenn:
College of William and Mary
(Williamsburg, VA)
- Scott Wolf:
The George Washington University
(Washington, DC)
- Seann William Scott:
Glendale Community College (California)
(Glendale, CA)
- Sherry Stringfield:
SUNY -- Purchase College
(Purchase, NY)
- Steve Carell:
Denison University
(Granville, OH)
- Susan Sarandon:
Catholic University of America
(Washington, DC)
- Sylvester Stallone:
University of Miami
(Coral Gables, FL)
- Tate Donovan:
University of Southern California
(Los Angeles, CA)
- Ted Danson:
Carnegie Mellon University
(Pittsburgh, PA)
- Tom Hanks:
Chabot College
(Hayward, CA)
- Tom Selleck:
University of Southern California
(Los Angeles, CA)
- Tommy Lee Jones:
Harvard University
(Cambridge, MA)
- Vanessa Williams:
Syracuse University
(Syracuse, NY)
- Wesley Snipes:
SUNY -- Purchase College
(Purchase, NY)
- William Baldwin:
SUNY -- Binghamton
(Binghamton, NY)
- William H. Macy:
Goddard College
(Plainfield, VT)
- Woody Harrelson:
Hanover College
(Hanover, IN)
- Yunjin Kim:
Boston University
(Boston, MA)
- Zachary Quinto:
Carnegie Mellon University
(Pittsburgh, PA)
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