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Hot Gallery! We Reveal How These Actors Who Play High Schoolers Really Looked in High School
You know those good-looking, talented high school kids on TV and in the movies? Those ones who seem way too together, way too comfortable with themselves to be teenagers? Chances are, they’re not. Check out these stars who played high schoolers when they were really past high school—some of them waaay past high school—themselves! By Nina Hämmerling Smith
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Sissy Spacek in High School in 1968, and Sissy Spacek Playing a High School Student in 1976
You’ve got to hand it to her: She knows how to wear a tiara. Though she has had numerous Oscar-nominated roles through the years, Sissy Spacek may forever be remembered as the outsider teen at the center of one of the most horrifically gruesome scenes in cinematic history. She was 27 when Carrie was released; four years later, she won the Oscar for Coal Miner’s Daughter. Spacek has appeared in movies like Affliction and In the Bedroom, as well as TV series like Big Love. She costarred in The Help and can be seen in this spring’s Blackbird.
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