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13 Successful Celebrities Who Dropped Out of School

3. Hilary Swank

The Homesman actress was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, but her family moved to Bellingham, Washington when she was six. Swank made her first appearance on stage when she was nine in a production of The Jungle Book. When Hilary was 15, her parents separated and she and her mother moved to Los Angeles so that she could pursue her dream of acting. Swank admits that she and her mother lived out of their car for their first few months in LA. Swank enrolled in South Pasadena High School, but dropped out at age 16. Today, Hilary Swank is best known for her work in films such as Boys Don’t Cry, Million Dollar Baby, Freedom Writers and The Black Dahlia.

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