The 31-year-old actress Claire Danes, who shot to fame as a teenager in TV show My So-Called Life took a break from acting in 1998 to study psychology at the prestigious Yale University but quit after two years.
When asked what advice she would give her younger self, Claire said, “Go to college, actually. I didn’t finish. I only went for two years but those two years were really good for me to just step away for a little bit and grow up without the prying eyes of the public and all the judgment that accompanies it. So that was good, and I don’t know.”
Claire, who won the Golden Globe award for Best Actress in a TV movie for Temple Grandin, has previously revealed she took time out from Hollywood to attend college in order to regain a “normal” life.
She explained, “I started working when I was very young. I got an agent when I was 12 and fortunately was employed consistently from that point on. So I didn’t really go to a conventional high school. I was tutored on sets and things.”
The actress, who is married to British actor Hugh Dancy, is not the only actress to take time out of her career to attend university.