Brad Pitt – Oklahoma
Despite having been born in Shawnee, Oklahoma; Pitt and his family quickly moved to Springfield Missouri not long after. Pitt attended Kickapoo High School, where he was a member of the golf, swimming and tennis teams. He was a member of the Key and Forensics clubs at school, as well as debates and musicals. Pitt enrolled in the University of Missouri in 1982 after graduating from high school, majoring in journalism with an emphasis on advertising. Pitt dropped out of university two weeks before finishing his degree requirements and moved to Los Angeles, where he took acting classes and performed odd jobs initially… and the rest is history.
Brad Pitt Oklahoma
Whoopi Goldberg – New York
Caryn Elaine Johnson, or “Whoopi Goldberg” as she is more commonly known, was born in Manhattan, New York City in 1955. She grew up in the Chelsea-Elliot Houses- a New York City public housing project. She attended St Columba’s, a local Catholic school, before dropping out of Washington Irving High School years later. Goldberg moved to California in the 70s, where she initially worked odd jobs such as bank telling and bricklaying, until she began to involve herself in theater.
Whoopi Goldberg New York
