Hey, who said stars can't also be smart? PopSugar rounds up 28 celebrities who attended Ivy League schools. A sampling, all of whom graduated:
- Lupita Nyong'o: Has her master's in drama from Yale.
- John Legend: Graduated from UPenn with an English degree.
- Meryl Streep: Got her MFA from Yale's School of Drama.
- Maggie Gyllenhaal: Both Maggie and brother Jake went to Columbia, but only Maggie graduated; part of her studies: Eastern religions.
- Connie Britton: She got her degree in Asian studies from Dartmouth.
- Mindy Kaling: She also has a degree from Dartmouth; hers is in playwriting.
- Jane Lynch: She has an MFA in theater arts from Cornell.
- Amanda Peet: She graduated from Columbia.
- Brooke Shields: She has a degree in French literature from Princeton.
- Julia Stiles: She has a degree in literature from Columbia.
- John Krasinski: He has a degree in playwriting from Brown.
- David Duchovny: He graduated from Princeton, then got a master's at Yale. He even started the PhD program at Yale, but dropped out.
- Angela Bassett: She has both a bachelor's and a master's degree from Yale.
- Tommy Lee Jones: He has an English degree from Harvard.
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