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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck

Celebrities who were high school buddies Matt Damon and Ben Affleck While attending Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School, they became lifelong friends when Affleck defended Damon during a fight. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Celebrities who were high school buddies of Nicolas Cage and Gina Gershon (feat. Lenny Kravitz) Gershon and Cage were together in a school production of Oklahoma - while Kravitz was playing drums in the pit. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Naomi Watts and Nicole Kidman

Celebrities who were high school buddies Naomi Watts and Nicole Kidman Both Aussies met at North Sydney Girls' High School, back in their home country. Watts dated Kidman's brother for a short while. CRACKED.COM — Source

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High School Pals

Celebrities who were high school buddies Jeremy Piven and John Cusack They became close friends at Evanston Township High School. Sadly, the two drifted apart as their careers went in different directions CRACKED.COM — Source

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Celebrities who were high school buddies Jay-Z and Busta Rhymes Both rappers attended Eli Whitney High School at the same time, and had a rap battle in the lunchroom. Jay-Z says he won. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Carrie Fisher and Jamie Lee Curtis

Celebrities who were high school buddies Carrie Fisher and Jamie Lee Curtis When Curtis arrived as a freshman at Beverly Hills High School, Princess/General Leia was starting her junior year. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jada Pinkett-Smith

Celebrities who were high school buddies Tupac Shakur and Jada Pinkett-Smith The actor and the hip-hop star became lifelong friends at the Baltimore School of the Arts. Pinkett-Smith wrote a poem to honor Shakur on what would have been his 50th birthday. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Celebrities who were high school buddies W Josh Hartnett and Rachel Leigh Cook Before taking over several teen movies in the 2000s, Hartnett and Cook went to South High School in Minneapolis. Cook admits that she had a small crush on Hartnett at the time. В C BROADSW digital cinema m EVENT HO LMS CE CRACKED.COM — Source

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Celebrities who were high school buddies Lauryn Hill and Zach Braff The two attended Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey at the same time, and according to Braff, Hill attended his bar mitzvah. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Celebrities who were high school buddies FO OX Hal Sparks and Rainn Wilson The actor and the stand-up comic turned actor both attended New Trier High School in Illinois. Wilson has even spoken at past high school graduations as an alumnus. F CRACKED.COM — Source

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Celebrities who were high school buddies Kevin James and Mick Foley The comedian and the pro wrestler competed on the wrestling team at Ward Melville High School. And guess what - James was better at it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cameron Diaz and Snoop Dogg

Celebrities who were high school buddies Cameron Diaz and Snoop Dogg They had some friends in common at the Long Beach Polytechnic High School, where Diaz was on the cheerleading squad. Snoop says he never asked her out because she was younger than him. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Celebrities who were high school buddies Adam Levine and Jonah Hill Both carpooled together to Brentwood School and stayed at each other's homes. They've remained close, and Hill even officiated Levine's wedding. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Celebrities who were high school buddies Zendaya and Gabby Douglas The actor and the gymnast were both in the Class of 2015 at Oak Park Independent School. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Celebrities who were high school buddies Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hiddleston The two were a part of Eton College's theater department. At a school play, Hiddleston played the front right leg of an elephant Redmayne's character was riding on. G THE WAY ME CRACKED.COM — Source

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John Krasinski and B.J. Novak

Celebrities who were high school buddies John Krasinski and B. J. Novak They Newton South High School together, and even played on the same little league team! It's got to be odd to not only come from the same place but also work on the same show, The Office. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Celebrities who were high school buddies Media Rami Malek and Rachel Bilson The two were theater kids at Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, CA, and became friends during a school production of The Crucible. CRACKED.COM — Source

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J.J Abrams

Bumping into screenwriter Jill Mazursky made J.J. Abrams' career. At the mall, Abrams had a chance run-in with Jill Mazursky, screenwriter and daughter of Oscar-nominated director Paul Mazursky. Soon, they started working together on one of her script ideas, which became Taking Care of Business starring Jim Belushi. I owe everything I have to Jill, Abrams said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Terry Bradshaw, former NFL quarterback, credits Phil Robertson (of Duck Dynasty) for his success. CRACKED.COM - 10 FRIENDS Bradshaw was backup QB to Robertson at Louisiana Tech. When Phil left LT to duck hunt full-time, Bradshaw moved to starting QB and eventually went on to win four Super Bowl games with the Pittsburgh Steelers. — Source

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Michael C. Hall got his big break when he met award winning director Sam Mendes at an acting workshop. When Alan Cumming dropped out of the lead role of the Emcee in Mendes' revival of Cabaret on Broadway, he took a chance and cast Hall as his replacement. Before this opportunity he had only a few small stage credits, after this he was offered the role on Six Feet Under. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WHAT FAMOUS FRIEND TALKED JOHNNY DEPP INTO TRYING HIS HAND AT ACTING? (Not Jackie Earle Haley.) Johnny was trying to make it as a musician when a mutual acquaintance introduced him to... Nicolas f@cking Cage. Cage convinced Depp that he had potential as an actor and helped him get an agent. The story going around that Haley took him on his first audition? It's just a rumor, the Watchmen actor said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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GRAGKED.COM SLEEPING IN A VAN AND WAITING TABLES AT BUBBA GUMP SHRIMP CO., IS WHERE ACTRESS RAE DAWN CHONG (DAUGHTER OF LEGENDARY COMEDIAN, TOMMY CHONG) FOUND 19-YEAR OLD CHRIS PRATT, WHOM SHE PROMPTLY CAST IN HER DEBUT FILM. — Source

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Dan Harmon moved to California because Oliver Stone had optioned his friend Rob Schrab's comic, Scud: The Disposable Assassin. The friends were so confident in their Hollywood prospects that they WILL packed up and moved into a house KILL FOR in Koreatown where they MONEY continued making comics and working as writers. YOUR S#!T RE ОСТО TOGETHER GET IT ALL TOGETHER AND PUT IT BI BACKPACK ALL YOUP SPIT CRACKED COM SO IT'O — Source

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Donald Sutherland owes his career, from M*A*S*H to The Hunger Games, to Christopher Plummer. Sutherland was told he should move from England to California to get more roles, but he couldn't afford to. Eventually, he asked Plummer, a more established actor he didn't know well, for help. Without hesitating, Plummer gave him $1,500. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dr. Phil’s Relationship with Oprah

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Dennis Hopper

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CRACKED.COM Lisa Loeb was friends and neighbors with Ethan Hawke, who was starring in the movie Reality Bites. Hawke played the single Stay (I Missed You) for director Ben Stiller who put it in the movie. Loeb became the first unsigned act to have a number one song. Hawke also directed the one- take music video. — Source

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Hugh Jackman says he owes his career to Russell Crowe. Crowe passed on the role of Wolverine, and then recommended his friend Hugh for the job, which eventually made him a household name. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Iggy Pop was an out of control drug addict when David Bowie took him under his wing. After helping Pop wean himself off drugs, Bowie helped him write and produce The Idiot and Lust for Life which launched Pop's solo career. — Source

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Saving Private Ryan

Back when Vin Diesel was still a struggling actor, he made a short film about a (surprise) struggling actor, called Multi-Facial. Steven Spielberg saw it, and cast him in Saving Private Ryan. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Ed Sheeran

Before he became a mega sensation, Ed Sheeran used to sleep on Jamie Foxx's couch. The two first met on Foxx's radio show, impressing Foxx so much that he invited him into his home and later got him to perform in front of a mostly black audience which he won over while playing a ukulele. CRACKED.COM — Source

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