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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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Amber Riley in High School in 2002, and Amber Riley Playing a High School Student in 2011
By the time she started playing sassy vocal powerhouse Mercedes on the hit Glee, Amber Riley was already 24. In its third season, several characters will be moved on—including, Riley. She told Entertainment Weekly, “All I know is I’ve been told that I’m a senior and I am graduating. If it is my last season, it is what it is. I’ve been given a really great platform to do other things that I love.” She has continued to do guest stints on Glee and won Dancing with the Stars in 2013.
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