While some people did not need to make special efforts in order to get the cherished good grade, others did not grab the stars from the sky. Moreover, poor school grades, as practice shows, have absolutely no effect on building a successful career. We decided to make a list with photos of actors and actresses who were failing and poorly at school. They were lazy, in some cases dropped out of school and did not receive good certificates, but we love them not for this, but for their acting talent.
Tom Cruise
- "Interview with a Vampire"
- "Rain Man"
- "The Last Samurai".
Tom's family constantly moved from place to place, and this, naturally, affected the boy's academic performance. Cruz was bullied in constantly changing schools by peers, and the actor himself suffered from dyslexia. He was afraid to answer in class even when he knew the material, and as a result, his grades were expected to be better.
Pavel Priluchny
- "The Life and Adventures of Mishka Yaponchik"
- "Bad blood"
- "Freud's method".
Pavel is one of the most successful contemporary Russian actors who hated school. Looking at the photo of Priluchny in childhood, it immediately becomes clear that this is a notorious bully. Boxing and dancing fascinated him much more than school subjects. He constantly skipped and fought, for which he repeatedly got from his parents. His father's death made him grow up and take up his mind at least a little. The thirteen-year-old boy now had to think not only about himself, but also about his mother, and this allowed him not to go down the wrong path.
Kevin Spacey
- "Pay another"
- "American Beauty"
- "The Catcher in the Rye".
Kevin Spacey is a great example that a child or teenager will do well if they like their place of study and subjects. After his parents put Kevin in a military school, he began to bully, stopped doing homework and constantly got into fights. Spacey was expelled for all of the above, and his mom transferred him to acting school. There, Kevin's academic performance immediately improved, and he successfully graduated from an educational institution.
Hilary Swank
- "Million Dollar Baby"
- "Boys do not Cry"
- «11:14».
Hillary does not think that having a secondary education is a reason for pride. The actress was not an excellent student, rather the opposite, and at sixteen she was completely expelled from school. Swank became the real star of cinema, but if this had not happened, it is not known how the life of a woman who does not have a certificate of education would have turned out.
Winona Ryder
- "Edward Scissorhands"
- "Black Swan"
- Dracula.
Some foreign stars not only studied poorly, but even dropped out of school altogether. Winona Ryder completed only seven grades. The reason for this was not only poor academic performance, but also problems with socialization. The future actress could not stand the bullying of her peers, who humiliated and beat her due to the fact that she was very different from her classmates in behavior and worldview.
Johnny Depp
- "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them"
- "Alice in Wonderland"
- "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus".
Johnny realized very early that studying is not at all what he wants to do. He constantly skipped and was an inveterate poor student. Needless to say, Depp never even finished school with this approach. He followed his dream of becoming a great rock musician and even founded his own band. Johnny still sings and plays, but he was given to become a real greatness not in music, but in cinema.
Maria Aronova
- "Battalion"
- "New Year's tariff"
- "Request stop".
Among the domestic celebrities, whose study was given with great difficulty, was Maria Aronova. When Masha was little, she categorically did not want to study. The girl had normal grades only in literature and the Russian language, but her parents did not scold her daughter. They tried to convey to her that a good certificate is not the main thing, but the main thing is that she grows up as a bright person. Bad grades were overshadowed by participation in various school performances and Maria's obvious artistic abilities. Years later, the actress admitted that as a child she was simply unbearable, but her parents treated her with understanding, and this allowed her to outgrow her problems.
Benedict Cumberbatch
- "12 years of slavery"
- "Empty crown"
- "Another Boleyn Girl."
In elementary school, Benedict received good grades, but every year his zeal for learning diminished. Despite the fact that the guy could simply be expelled from a prestigious educational institution, he constantly skipped, used marijuana, and instead of lessons he met with girls. He barely finished school and nearly failed his entrance exams. But luckily for the audience and for Cumberbatch himself, it all ended well.
Cameron Diaz
- "Very bad teacher"
- "Exchange vacation"
- "Charlie's Angels".
The star of "The Mask" and "Vanilla Sky" was a real tomboy. Studying did not interest Cameron absolutely, and her family had to put up with her daughter's poor grades. Subsequently, Diaz even dropped out of school, leaving school at the age of 16 - the girl first signed a contract as a model, and soon began to receive her first film roles.
Marat Basharov
- "Drunken firm"
- Anna German. The Secret of the White Angel "
- "Turkish gambit".
Even now, Marat Basharov cannot be classified as a star with a simple character, let alone his school years. As a child, he loved only two subjects - work and physical education. Marat mercilessly tore leaves with deuces from his notebooks and started a second diary for his parents. After that, he decided to help the whole class and offered to start a second magazine.
When the secret was revealed, Basharov was almost kicked out of school. He took up his mind only in high school and even became a student at the law faculty of Moscow State University, but soon realized that his calling was to be an actor, and moved to the Shchepkinskoye School.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
- "The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones"
- "The Ghost of the Hill House"
- "Terminal".
Catherine Zeta-Jones continues our list with photos of actors and actresses who were Losers and did not do well in school. The future star of "Chicago" and the wife of Michael Douglas understood that studying is not the main thing if you know what you want from life. Her grades were hardly good. She dropped out of school as soon as she was fifteen, and went to study acting.
Marlon Brando
- "Godfather"
- "Apocalypse Now"
- "Island of Dr. Moreau".
Received an Oscar for his role in The Godfather, the actor was an inveterate failure and a bully. He was despised by his classmates, he always fought and disrupted lessons. After the guy rode through the school corridors on a motorcycle, he was expelled from the school. Brando never completed his education, which did not affect the fact that Marlon was able to make a dizzying career in cinema.
Larisa Guzeeva
- "Cruel romance"
- "The Life of Klim Samgin"
- "Secret fairway".
Before becoming one of the popular Soviet actresses, Larisa constantly made her mother blush, who taught history at the school where her daughter studied. Guzeeva does not hide - she constantly rebelled, and this was expressed not only in bad grades, but also in too short skirts and absolutely unbearable behavior. The future actress used foul language, smoked and disrupted lessons. Larisa's mother was afraid to go into the teacher's room, realizing that she would not hear anything good from her colleagues about her daughter. When Guzeeva received her certificate, all teachers breathed a sigh of relief.
Jennifer Lawrence
- "The Hunger Games"
- "Silver Linings Playbook"
- "Defective Detective".
Jennifer's parents had to come to terms with the fact that their daughter was not at all interested in school subjects. The girl dreamed of becoming an actress and achieved her goal. The future Oscar winner didn't even finish school. She decided that she would no longer study when she was fourteen. Lawrence doesn't even have a high school diploma.
Mikhail Derzhavin
- "Three in the boat, not counting the dog"
- "Little Comedies of the Big House"
- "Zucchini" 13 chairs ".
Another famous domestic actor on our list is Mikhail Derzhavin. The future artist was left without a father early and was forced to earn money to help the family. Young Misha already did not have the best marks, and the constant skipping of lessons only exacerbated the problem. In several subjects Derzhavin was simply not certified. Subsequently, Mikhail graduated from evening school, after which he easily became a student at the Shchukin school.
Al Pacino
- "The smell of a woman"
- "Irishman"
- "Face with a scar".
Young Al Pacino was not very interested in lessons and even more homework. He was the main school bully and badass. The only thing that interested the guy, besides fights and scandalous antics, was sports. But he also interfered with his studies - instead of attending lessons, he disappeared on baseball, and at 17 he was expelled from school.
Jude Law
- "New dad"
- "Obsession"
- "Sherlock Holmes".
The Hollywood actor was calmly able to build a successful career in the status of a "dropout". At school, he was a poor student and did not pay much attention to his studies. After he got a role in the TV series "Families" at the age of seventeen, Jude dropped out of school altogether.
Fedor Bondarchuk
- "Ghost"
- "9 months"
- "State Councillor".
Despite the fact that Fedor was born into a stellar family, he had poor grades at school. Bondarchuk's parents constantly had to blush for their son. They were called to school because of absenteeism, twos, smoking and problems with the behavior of the future director. According to the actor himself, school subjects did not interest him at all.
Drew Barrymore
- "Diet from Santa Clarita"
- "Everyone loves whales"
- Donnie Darko.
Drew was only seven years old when she was overtaken by overwhelming success - filming Steven Spielberg's "Alien" made her truly famous. There was no more talk about grades and studies - the girl plunged headlong into the world of show business and parties. As a result, the actress did not even receive a secondary education - she dropped out after leaving a drug rehabilitation clinic at the age of thirteen.
Jim Carrey
- "Bruce Almighty"
- "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
- "Mask".
Rounding out our list with photos of actors and actresses who were Losers and did not do well in school is Jim Carrey. The actor stayed in the tenth grade three times due to a systematic absence from school. The reason for absenteeism was not the laziness of the future Hollywood star, but the poor financial situation of the family. The guy worked and he did not have time to study at school, but he still received his certificate.