Do people who attend "Schools for the Performing Arts" ever become famous?

Yes.

Sometimes. Not everyone is gonna be successful in what they study.

Julliard has people who "made it." I assume you're not including anything tied to a full-fledged university like Yale School of Drama.

You’re not very bright, are you? I like that in an OP.

Timmy Chalamet is probably the most famous one off the list at R1. Maybe Ansel Elgort too.

I didn't realize he went to a school for the performing arts.

Sometimes it pays off, Meryl Streep and Robin Williams comes to mind. But yes, unfortunately, looks and connections can often win over talent and education.

What is that expression? "You don't find fame; it finds you." There's no formula to fame. If there was, everyone would be famous.

I’m confused are we talking high school or college?

Besides LaGuardia in NYC, another big school is PCS, or the Professional Children’s School. Here’s an extensive list of their graduates in various fields.

Some. I attended an arts high school. Many of my former classmates play in orchestras, some are character actors you'd recognize, many are music teachers. One of the most successful of my classmates was a drama student who did well in lighting, working for a major opera company. Our most famous graduates are mostly jazz musicians. The famous alums I can think of are Mireille Enos, Lisa Hartman Black and Mark Seliger. Beyonce attended, but did not graduate from HSPVA, so some alums quibble.

Check out the alumni of the NYC art schools. You'll see a lot of stars there.

Is LaGuardia the most elite of the PA schools?

One would think that Los Angeles should have a top PA school, considering it's in Hollywood!

I thought both - but I could have been wrong.

DL favorite Froy graduated from a Dallas area performing arts school.

One thing I find odd is how many comedians transition from being comedians into film stars. No fuss. No school. Nothing. And very often they're good.

I hope to send my eventual children to The Jack and Elizabeth Donaghy High School for Teen Drama, the Arts, and Feelings. They are dedicated to creating a new generation of choreographers and puppeteers, clowns, video artists, and theatrical jugglers.

Besides LaGuardia there is also another NYC public school of performing arts in my neighborhood of Astoria. Tony Bennet founded the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts n 2001. I think there might also be one in the Bronx.

[quote] Timmy Chalamet is probably the most famous one off the list at [R1]. Maybe Ansel Elgort too.

No, honey.

Neither of them is anywhere near as famous as Jennifer Aniston.

You think so only because you are completely obsessed with cute twinks; but not everyone in the USA is.

[quote] One thing I find odd is how many comedians transition from being comedians into film stars. No fuss. No school. Nothing.

Don't forget the wrestlers like The Rock and John Cena.

And other athletes.

And singers, too.

Real actors must be pissed!

Companies are even giving most television commercials to people who are already famous, so it must be really hard for a commercial actor to get a job now.

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Sometimes it's just a place to park our "artistic" children between rehab stints.

In my contry, lady with Best talent go to architect school.

R14

“And very often they’re good.”

Really? Like Adam Sandler, who sucked as a comedian as well?

NOCCA in New Orleans graduated Harry Connick Jr., all the Marsalises, Wendell Pierce, Jon Batiste and a lot of other working, semi-famous musicians and actors.

R22 Adam was shockingly good in Punch Drunk Love, and I heard great things about that Gems movie performance.

Outside of LaGuardia, most that I’ve known go to college for their BFA, move to NYC immediately, and then shortly move back to their hometowns to become drama teachers

OP are you including or excluding all those theater schools like Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg? Because many, many prominent people have been associated with them.

What’s Cooper Union like?

[quote]Really? Like Adam Sandler, who sucked as a comedian as well?

I'm thinking of British comedians more at this moment.

Billy Connolly in that film about Victoria...what's his name in the movie Philomena.

[quote] The Frank Sinatra School of the Arts

How embarrassing.

Wow, way too much stupid to even begin with, OP.

R28 Both of those were small, cheaply-made TV movies FINANCED by the unwilling taxpayer via the BBC.

(My personal opinion is that both those "comedians" are rather witless and one in particular has a particularly foul mouth)

Adele went to the Brit School, a famous performing arts school in London.

[quote] I hope to send my eventual children to The Jack and Elizabeth Donaghy High School for Teen Drama, the Arts, and Feelings.

Im sending mine to the Lavarious Slaughter Academy for Practitioners in Low-Budget Dinner Theatre.

[quote]but you never hear of anyone famous coming from them.

You didn't even do the minimum amount of research on this topic, did you?

Did Man 6 in the first national touring company of Hamilton go to a school for the performing arts?

I'm still trying to wrap my head around just how OP/r5 could ever possibly believe Timothée Chalamet and Ansel Elgort are the two most famous people on a list that includes Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.

[quote]I'm still trying to wrap my head around just how OP/[R5] could ever possibly believe Timothée Chalamet and Ansel Elgort are the two most famous people on a list that includes Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.

In Dataloungeland they ARE higher up the totem poll.

DeNiro and Pacino?

Are those pizza chains?

Amy Winehouse went to the Brits school too. The One D guys are the biggest stars to come out of the UK after Adele and Ed but they just went to ordinary secondary schools.

Weren't Miss Julia Roberts and her brother Eric being trained by their super weird acting teacher father since they were kids?

Nicole Scherzinger attended the Youth Performing Arts School (YPAS) in Louisville.

Adam Sandler went to NYU.

OP, my dear boy, you obviously don't have a clue about the performing arts so let me bring home a few facts.

First and foremost there are literally scores or hundreds of other dancers, actors, singers, and so on all always competing for same role or open position.

Famous opening scene from film "All That Jazz" captures an open cast call for dancers perfectly.

Yes, you could be the hottest thing from High School of Performing Arts, or maybe Miss Mary's Dance Academy in Walla Walla, Washington, but you've got plenty of competition. Each of them also believes they are the hottest thing in shoe leather....

Some people have "it", others simply don't. What "it" is however can vary by eye of the beholder.

OP types unlearned.

Hello! 3 Oscars here! Sigourney and her 7 Avatar movies says hi too!!!

R42

As did JESSICA HECHT, GINA GERSHON, LADY GAGA, KATHRYN ERBE, ALEC BALDWIN, ALEC BALDWIN, ANDREW MCCARTHY, JESSE METCALFE among others.

All this and not to mention Stagecoach or Stagestruck or whatever that upstate NY performing summer camp so lovingly skewered in the movie “Camp” that so many stars went to.