Hawn just kept going and going as the years went on. She kicked off the 1980s with 'Private Benjamin,' which earned her another 'Best Actress' Oscar Nomination, and then went back to playing for laughs in 1992's 'Death Becomes Her,' with several great films in between. Things continued to be successful for Hawn until the turn of the century, when her first box office failure seemed to hit her hard.
Hawn appeared in 'Town & Country' with Warren Beatty and Diane Keating in 2001. With an all-star cast and a $90m budget, the movie was expected to do great things, but critics hated it, and audiences avoided it. When it was pulled from cinema screens, it had grossed just $7m. Seemingly stung by this, Hawn pulled away from acting and went mostly unseen for the next fifteen years. That wasn't the end of her career, though. In 2017 she returned, performing with Amy Schumer in 'Snatched' and playing her part so gracefully it was like she'd never been away.
Most of your favorite celebrities either studied acting in college or went straight from high school into a life of the arts. But, hey, not all of them. Some celebrities actually have advanced college degrees.
Turns out Mayim Bialik is just as much of a genius as the one she plays on The Big Bang Theory. She earned her Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles, focusing on obsessive compulsive disorder among people with Prader-Willi syndrome, a rare condition in which the hypothalamus malfunctions.
Little known fact: Natalie Portman skipped the premiere of Star Wars: Phantom Menace because she was studying for her high school exams. She had two papers published in scientific journals while she was still in high school, and graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Psychology.
Before he was looking for answers on X-Files, David Duchovny was just trying to find the answers for English finals at Princeton University90. David graduated from Princeton in 1982 with a B.A in English. He continued to feed his love of literature by receiving a master’s degree in English Literature at Yale University. David was an excellent writer and poet. His work consistently received praise by his fellow classmates and teachers at Yale. His writing was even nominated for a college prize by the Academy of American Poets.
Sigourney Weaver graduated from Stanford University in 1971 with a bachelor’s in Literature. It was while studying at Stanford that Sigourney realized her true passion in life was to become an actress. Shortly after graduation, she attended Yale for their well-known drama program. She would go on to receive a master’s in Acting from Yale University and become friends with fellow famous actress Meryl Streep.
Meryl Streep is considered one of the most successful actresses of all time. She is also one of the most highly educated. Before collecting an array of Oscars, Meryl collected diplomas. She graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in 1971. Meryl has a habit of being unsatisfied with impressive accomplishments as her acting career has shown, so she attended Yale University and earned a master’s degree in Acting.