Top 10 Celebrities Who Went to Ivy League Schools



10. Rashida Jones - Harvard University 1976
Rashida Leah Jones is an American film and television actress, comic book author, screenwriter, and occasional singer. Jones is widely known for her role as Ann Perkins on NBC's comedy Parks and Recreation.
9. John Krasinski - Brown University 1979
John Burke Krasinski is an American actor, film director, and writer. He is known for playing Jim Halpert on the NBC sitcom The Office.
8. Claire Danes - Yale University 1979
Claire Catherine Danes is an American actress best known as Angela Chase in My So-Called Life, as Temple Grandin in the HBO television film Temple Grandin, and as Carrie Mathison in the Showtime series Homeland.
7. Edward Norton - Yale University 1969
Edward Harrison Norton is an American actor, screenwriter, film director and producer. He played Aaron Stampler in Primal Fear which garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Academy Award for Best Actor for Derek Vinyard in American History X, two years later. His other performances are diverse in range and include supporting roles in the biographical drama The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), the comedy Everyone Says I Love You (1996), and the comedy-dramas Moonrise Kingdom and The Grand Budapest Hotel, starring roles in the cult hit Fight Club (1999), 25th Hour (2002), The Illusionist (2006), Leaves of Grass (2009) (in which he acted against himself), The Italian Job (2003) and Kingdom of Heaven (2005). He also directed and co-written films, such as his directorial debut in the romantic comedy Keeping the Faith (2000). He had his uncredited work on the scripts for The Score, Frida and The Incredible Hulk.
6. Emma Watson - Brown University 1990
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is an English actress and model. She rose to prominence portraying Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series, appearing alongside Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint in all eight Potter films beginning in 2001.
5. Jake Gyllenhaal - Columbia University 1980
Jacob Benjamin "Jake" Gyllenhaal is an American actor. The son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, Gyllenhaal began acting at the age of ten.
4. Natalie Portman - Harvard University 1981
Natalie Portman is an actress with dual American and Israeli citizenship. Her first role was as an orphan taken in by a hitman in the 1994 action film Léon: The Professional, but mainstream success came when she was cast as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (released in 1999, 2002 and 2005). In 1999, she enrolled at Harvard University to study psychology while still working as an actress. She completed her bachelor's degree in 2003.
3. Conan O'Brien - Harvard University 1963
Conan Christopher O'Brien is an American television host, comedian, writer, producer, and voice actor.
2. Meryl Streep - Yale University 1949
Meryl Streep is an American actress and producer. A three-time Academy Award winner, she is widely regarded as one of the greatest film actresses of all time.
1. Matt Damon - Harvard University 1970
Matthew Paige "Matt" Damon is an American actor, voice actor, screenwriter, producer, and philanthropist.