33 celebrities who knew each other in high school

The Hollywood besties first met when they were a little younger, but they both attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin high school.

Matt Damon told Conan O'Brien in 2019 that Ben Affleck came to his defense during a fight in high school, and that's when they really cemented their friendship.

"I remember that was like a big moment," Damon said. "He will put himself in a really bad spot for me. This is a good friend."

These two Hollywood stars went to New York City's LaGuardia High School — a school made famous by the movie-musical "Fame" (1980).

In 2017, Ansel Elgort posted a photo on Instagram where part of the caption read, "Laguardia high school pride. It's really crazy, Timmy and I played on the same basketball team, we had the same drama teacher Mr.Shifman ... and then in the same year, both of us are nominated for a f---king Golden Globe!"

"They were both quite popular and very different," their former drama teacher, Schifman, told Vanity Fair in 2018. "... They were both like rock stars in a way, in a school full of rock stars. Everybody recognized them as being particularly gifted."

Ryan and Jim might not have been the best of friends on "The Office," but BJ Novak and John Krasinski go way back.

"[BJ] was the home-run king of Little League, did he tell you that?" Krasinski told Boston.com in 2005. "There's a large oak tree in the Newton Centre park playground that is legendary because only a few humans have hit it with a baseball from home plate, and BJ Novak is among them. And I was there that day."

They also attended Newton South High School together, and Krasinski even appeared in Novak's senior play.

"He asked me to be one of the leads," Krasinski told The Patriot Ledger in 2009. "I remember saying that I couldn't act, but BJ said, 'Just trust me,' and then he said, 'I think you're funny.'"

Not only did Scarlett Johansson and Jack Antonoff go to the same high school, but also they dated and even went to prom together, according to Page Six.

All of this happened back in the early 2000s at the Professional Children's School on the Upper West Side in NYC.

It might seem like an unexpected friendship on paper, but the Maroon 5 front man and comedic actor have been friends since they were kids, and they both went to Brentwood School in LA.

"Our dads met in the principal's office in junior high," Jonah Hill told Howard Stern in 2014. "We carpooled, lived at each other's houses."

In 2014, Adam Levine even asked Hill to officiate his wedding to Behati Prinsloo.

Jada Pinkett Smith met the late rapper at the Baltimore School for the Arts in Maryland.

"... He came over to me and introduced himself," she said in an interview, per People. "And in high school, Pac was a little funny looking. Definitely from looking at him, wasn't necessarily like the type of cat that I would even, like, deal with. But as soon as he approached me, he was like a magnet."

"We hit it off from that moment on," she continued.

Before they starred in "Dr. T and the Women" (2000) together, Liv Tyler and Kate Hudson attended Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in the 1990s.

They ran in the same circles due to their famous parents and became fast friends.

The three stars all attended Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California.

"I used to have a little crush on [Kristen]," Rami Malek told E! News in 2016. "We're good buds."

Per People, in 2019, Rachel Bilson posted a now-deleted photo of her and Malek from high school with the caption, "Hey @ramimalek where'd you get that gold chain?" and the hashtag "#dontforgetthelittlepeople."

Cameron Diaz and Snoop Dogg went to Long Beach Polytechnic High School together in the 1980s.

"He was a year older than me," Diaz said on a 2011 appearance on "Lopez Tonight," per Us Weekly. "... I remember him, he was very tall and skinny. He wore lots of ponytails in his head, and I'm pretty sure I bought weed from him."

Snoop didn't deny it when he made an appearance on the show later that year, according to Showbiz CheatSheet.

"I might have sold her some of that white girl weed," he told George Lopez.

Ryan and Jim weren't the only ones from "The Office" who went to high school together — Andy and Kevin did, too.

The two actors attended The Westminster Schools in Atlanta in the late 1980s, early 1990s.

"Brian rules," Ed Helms wrote during a Reddit AMA in 2014. "... We were in a couple of plays together. He is actually nothing like Kevin and is a smart, hilarious, down-to-earth fella. And a freakishly good golfer."

Eddie Redmayne went to an English boarding school with the Duke of Cambridge.

"We were on the same rugby team at Eton College," Redmayne actor told Glamour in 2015. "He's a wonderful man. I always felt slightly sorry for him because everyone wanted to tackle the future king of England. He took all the hits."

The BRIT School in London calls itself "the leading performing and creative arts school in the UK," so it's no surprise that these two talented musicians got their start there.

During a 2016 interview on the Australian radio show "Fitzy and Wippa," Jessie J said that she and Adele used to sing together during lunchtime.

"We just used to ad-lib and make stuff up. Yeah, she's great," she said.

Though they don't run in the same circles today, the actor and the singer both went to Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey.

In 2018, Zach Braff even tweeted that Hill came to his bar mitzvah.

Lenny Kravitz and Nicolas Cage both attended Beverly Hills High School, and they even worked on the same production of "Oklahoma" while they were there.

"At that time he was Nick Coppola, Nicolas Coppola. And there was a production of 'Oklahoma,' and he was playing the lead male character, and I was in the pit playing drums," Kravitz told Seth Meyers in 2018.

The four celebrated actors all attended Santa Monica High School in the late 1970s, early 1980s.

"Listen, it's a big accomplishment from [a] fellow Santa Monica High [student]," Rob Lowe told Entertainment Tonight in 2016. "Look, the people who went to Santa Monica High — we get s--- done. Let's face it. We do! We find drug lords, we get nominated for Golden Globes, we do a lot of stuff."

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