Actors who went to Acting School vs Actors who did not. Which list do you prefer?

Submitted by Dry_Western_2342 t3_122bvlm in movies

This is just for fun! Also, keep in mind that the actors went to college for acting graduated or at least spent more than a year in the school. And this doesn’t mean that the actors who didn’t go to school haven’t gotten any kind of training, arguably all actors have taken some sort of class or training.

Actors who went to School

• Adam Driver - Juilliard School

• Jessica Chanstain Juilliard School

• Adam Sandler - NYU

• Miles Teller - NYU

• Robin Williams - Juilliard School

• Daniel Day Lewis - Bristol Old Vic Theatre School

• Robert de Niro - HB Studio, Lee Strasberg’s Actors Studio, and Stella Adler Conservatory

• Al Pacino - HB Studio and Lee Strasberg’s Actors Studio

• Marlon Brando - American Theatre Wing Professional School

• Ana de Armas - National Theatre of Cuba

• Denzel Washington - Fordham University and American Conservatory Theater

• Oscar Isaac - Juilliard School

• Pedro Pascal - NYU

• Bradley Cooper - The New School

• Andrew Garfield - Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

• Julianne Moore - Boston University

• Viola Davis - Rhode Island College and Juilliard School

• Cate Blanchett - National Institute of Dramatic Art

Actors who did not

• Leonardo DiCaprio

• Austin Butler

• Jennifer Lawrence

• Margot Robbie

• Emma Stone

• Brad Pitt

• Johnny Depp

• Tom Cruise

• Heath Ledger

• Joaquin Phoenix

• Javier Bardem

• Ryan Gosling

• Diego Calva

• Jim Carrey

• Christian Bale

• Robert Pattinson

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Huegod t1_jdpp7x9 wrote

It's really one list as the ones who didn't, imitate the ones who did by and large.

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BallerinaRed t1_jdpt390 wrote

it doesn't mean a whole lot in the grand scheme of things. good actors will be good actors no matter the background. using a random example because the two used to be married and were in multiple films where their (excellent) acting can be directly compared: Kenneth Branagh trained at RADA and was so talented he performed a soliloquy for the Queen once as a student, Emma Thompson never trained (she studied English at Cambridge) but got her start working in many comedy series and in a West End musical.

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[deleted] t1_jdpu6xd wrote

Tom Hardy studied acting at the Drama Centre London.

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GrumbleCake_ t1_jdpvwav wrote

More interesting I think, would be people like Leo, Ryan Gosling amd Austin Butler who started as children compared to the top half of your list
Education vs Experience

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tkc123 t1_jdpvwnz wrote

Half of the actors who did not go to school for acting were discovered when they were young.

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PMzyox t1_jdpwdbe wrote

Top list is a masterclass, but the bottom list has people who seem to have more passion, I’d say

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lostwanderer02 t1_jdpzmjv wrote

Montgomery Clift could easily be placed on either list because he started as a child actor and was already an accomplished and fully formed actor before he reached his 20's. At 23 he took acting classes at The Actors Studio under Robert Lewis who is probably the most forgotten of the three original method acting teachers. The other two were Stella Adler (who Marlon Brando studied under) and Lee Strasberg (who James Dean studied under).

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Ccaves0127 t1_jdr7m6u wrote

Replying to GrumbleCake_ (#2,366,201)

Also, they almost certainly went to some kind of acting school. A lot of film studios are contractually obligated to pay for acting school for younger stars if they're below a certain age. Even if it's just a few months that can make a massive difference

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NormanBates2023 t1_jdrtju3 wrote

Don't really care if they are good in a role it's good enough for me

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cbbuntz t1_jdtgio6 wrote

I'm gonna say it doesn't matter much. Look at how strong those two lists are.

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Reasonable-HB678 t1_je2qp5d wrote

Fun fact: in several episodes of Inside the Actors Studio Bradley Cooper is among the audience members compromised from students of The New School. In the episode where Robert De Niro was a guest, Cooper got to ask a question to a fellow acting school student and future co-star.

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