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Before they were reddish carpet regulars, these 8 celebrities were conscionable regular theatre kids, learning lines, hitting their marks, and dreaming large nether the signifier lights. From schoolhouse plays to assemblage theater, their aboriginal emotion of performing acceptable the signifier for the careers we cognize and emotion today. You mightiness beryllium amazed to find retired which stars got their commencement singing, dancing, and acting earlier making it large connected TV and successful movies.
1. Ariana Grande
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Before she roseate to fame, Ariana Grande performed successful South Florida astatine the Fort Lauderdale Children’s Theatre, wherever she starred successful Annie, and made her Broadway debut astatine conscionable 15 successful 13. She volition soon instrumentality to the signifier successful the West End revival of Sunday successful the Park With George, acting alongside her Wicked costar Jonathan Bailey.
2. Robert Pattinson
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Figuring helium would conscionable girls astatine his section melodramatic nine successful southeast London, Robert Pattinson auditioned for the Barnes Theatre Club, wherever helium was aboriginal spotted by a endowment cause successful the assemblage aft a show. That cause went connected to present Pattinson to manager Mike Newell, mounting disconnected a concatenation of events that yet led to his archetypal on-screen relation successful Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
3. Anna Kendrick
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Anna Kendrick honed her acting and singing astatine a section assemblage theatre successful South Portland called the Lyric Music Theater. Her archetypal audition was for the philharmonic Annie, and portion she did not onshore the rubric role, she was formed arsenic 1 of the different orphans and had a large clip singing “It’s the Hard Knock Life.” She attended her archetypal Tonys successful 1998!
4. Emma Stone
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Emma Stone got her commencement performing successful her hometown of Arizona astatine the Valley Youth Theatre, appearing successful 18 productions earlier yet leaving for California. This month, she earned her seventh Academy Award nomination, becoming the youngest pistillate to scope that milestone.
5. Chris Briney
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Growing up, Chris Briney attended Waterbury Arts Magnet School successful Connecticut! He honed his acting skills and performed successful respective plays earlier returning to the theatre successful 2025 to prima successful the Off-Broadway satellite premiere of Dilaria.
6. Zendaya
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In 3rd grade, a shy Zendaya began to travel into her ain aft enrolling successful classes astatine the Cal Shakes Conservatory, which her parent introduced her to done her enactment astatine the theatre implicit 12 summers. In 2024, Zendaya donated $100,000 to enactment the conservatory that helped signifier her aboriginal emotion of performance.
7. Madelyn Cline
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Before landing a relation connected Outer Banks, Madelyn Cline appeared arsenic a bunny successful The Flowertown Players’ accumulation of Fantastic Mr. Fox, an aboriginal signifier recognition that hints astatine her long-standing ties to the South Carolina theatre scene. Outer Banks was filmed chiefly successful South Carolina, a fitting full-circle infinitesimal successful Cline’s career.
8. Joe Locke
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Heartstopper prima Joe Locke began his acting vocation successful section productions with the Kensington Art Centre’s Youth Arts Theatre Group, wherever helium built an aboriginal instauration onstage earlier moving into nonrecreational work. After breaking retired connected screen, Locke continued to grow his scope arsenic a performer, and successful 2023, helium made his Broadway debut erstwhile helium was formed arsenic Tobias Ragg successful the revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
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