Check out the college education of some international celebrities

Contrary to popular belief, not all celebrities knew they were destined for stardom. Of course, many had a predisposition for the theater, cameras or catwalks from a young age, but this was part of leisure or extracurricular courses.

Many of our favorite international film, fashion and TV celebrities have only been working in their areas where we know them after dealing with more traditional graduations, but it had little to do with the way they are going today.

Refinery29 decided to investigate the curriculum of these famous people and found out what their real university degrees were, some of them completing the course and others not. In addition, only a few had degrees in arts and entertainment. Check it out below.

1 - Ashton Kutcher

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The star of the 'late' TV show That '70s Show and the current Two and a Half Man - in addition to his film roles, such as Steve Jobs' recent interpretation - Ashton Kutcher took a University course that has nothing to do with it. with his acting career.

He studied Biochemical Engineering at the University of Iowa. The choice may have been motivated by Kutcher's desire to find a cure for his twin's heart disease.

However, during college, Ashton was met by a bookmaker from a modeling agency who called him to a contest, which he won and left for New York, leaving engineering and starting his career in the fashion and artistic world.

2 - Steve Carrel

Protagonist of films such as The 40-year-old Virgin and Little Miss Sunshine, Steve Carrel is one of the stars of today's film comedy. But his undergraduate degree was History at Denison University in Ohio. However, he was already interested in acting from a young age and after college went on to take courses in the theater area where he finally found his true gift.

3 - Cindy Crawford

A supermodel who was one of the biggest stars on the catwalks and magazine covers of the late 1980s and early 1990s began her Chemical Engineering course at Northwestern University. However, she did not complete her degree because she wanted to pursue the dream of her modeling career, which worked very well and she became one of the most well-known and sought-after faces (and bodies) in the fashion world at the time.

4 - Brad Pitt

Bringing his resume to work in major films, production, humanitarian work, and the privilege of being the husband of beautiful Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt could have taken a different path if he had taken his college degree. He successfully completed the Journalism course at the University of Missouri. But just two weeks after graduating, Brad left for Los Angeles to take acting classes.

5 - George Clooney

Like his real-life, stage friend Brad Pitt, Clooney also studied journalism, but at Northern Kentucky University and later at the University of Cincinnati. However, Clooney did not graduate from any of them, leaving the course to work in several areas before he even worked.

6 - Jake Gyllenhaal

Jake Gyllenhaal had contact with the cinema since childhood, because his father is director and his mother is screenwriter. As a child and teenager, he appeared in a few films, but after finishing school he decided to take quite different courses in college, even though he knew that his fate would really be acting.

He attended Eastern Philosophy and Religion at Columbia University, but had to leave college two years later to pursue his acting career beginning in 1999.

7 - James Franco

But in evidence more than ever, actor James Franco is at all. Who sees his jokes in the most diverse selfies that he posts on social networks, can not imagine how much this actor carries graduations and knowledge.

In addition to acting, Franco also directs films, is a writer, poet and has recently taken over an old passion: painting. He began his university journey in the English course, but left him to pursue his dream of acting.

The graduations that followed were already collected after he became famous, and he has studied fiction, poetry, creative writing, screenplay, and a masters degree in comparative literature at Yale, one of the top universities in the United States. .

8 - Julia Roberts

Starring in movies like A Beautiful Woman and My Best Friend's Wedding, Julia Roberts has almost become a pet care professional. Julia attended Veterinary Studies at Georgia State University, but did not graduate as she left college to go to New York to pursue her acting career.