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Matthew McConaughey -

In 1988, the Texas native spent a year abroad as a Rotary exchange student in Warnervale, Australia. He then graduated with a degree in Radio, Television, and Film, from the University of Texas in 1993.

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Gwyneth Paltrow -

Paltrow has spoken on various occassions about how her exchange trip to Spain in her youth "changed her life." It also helped her learn the language! According to Today, even her children are picking up Spanish and practice at home.

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Kristin Scott Thomas - English actress Kristin Scott Thomas developed a love for France in her teens, when she moved to Paris and enrolled in the École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre to study acting. She has lived in France ever since.

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J. K. Rowling - Whilst studying French and classics in Exeter University in the UK, the world-famous author spent a semester in France.

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Donald Sutherland -

Canadian 'Hunger Games' actor Donald Sutherland studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. He also has a degree in both engineering and drama from the University of Toronto in Canada.

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Maggie Gyllenhaal - Gyllhenhaal attended London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts for a summer term.

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Chris Pine - For his year abroad, Chris Pine chose to go to the University of Leeds in the UK.

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Penélope Cruz -

After years of studying ballet in Madrid, Penélope Cruz headed to New York City to improve her English. Once there, Cruz enrolled in Cristina Rota's New York theater school.

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Olivia Wilde - Olivia Wilde studied at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland.

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Mark Feuerstein - 'Royal Pains' actor Mark Feuerstein studied acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

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Alison Brie - American actress Alison Brie went to Glasgow, Scotland to study at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

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Paul Rudd - Paul Rudd reportedly spent a term at the British American Drama Academy in London, where he studied Jacobean drama.

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Diane Kruger - The German-American actress attended London's Royal Ballet School before becoming an actress.

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Jon Cryer - The star of 'Two and a Half Men' studied at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

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Allison Janney - Award-winning 'I, Tonya' actress Allison Janney reportedly completed summer programs at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London.

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Russell Hornsby - 'Grimm' and 'Fences' actor Russell Hornsby studied at the British American Drama Academy in London, after finishing his degree at Boston University.

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George Takei - After graduating from Berkeley, George Takei went to the UK to study at Stratford-upon-Avon's Shakespeare Institute.

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Chadwick Boseman - Denzel Washington reportedly paid for Chadwick Boseman to take an acting summer program at Oxford University.

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John Lithgow - After graduating from Harvard College, Lithgow got a scholarship to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.

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Bradley Cooper - The 'A Star is Born' director and actor did a six-month exchange program in Aix-en-Provence, France, when he was enrolled at the Germantown Academy in Pennsylvania.

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Jake Johnson - The 'New Girl' actor went to Ireland for a NYU study abroad program.

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Gael García Bernal - The Mexican actor reportedly began a course in London's Central School of Speech and Drama, but did not finish his degree.

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Vera Wang -

American fashion designer Vera Wang earned her degree from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY. During that time, she also studied abroad in Paris at the University of Paris-Sorbonne (IV Paris).

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Bill Paxton -

The late American actor and director studied in London in the '70s, at The American International University of Richmond. Paxton has also studied in NYU and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting.

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Dan Brown -

In 1995, 'The Da Vinci Code' author studied art history at the University of Seville, Spain. Brown's book 'Digital Fortress' is supposedly based on his experience in the Andalusian city.

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Bill Clinton - The former president was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University in the late 1960s.

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Carrie Fisher - In 1973, Carrie Fisher reportedly enrolled in the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.

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Desmond Tutu - South African cleric and social activist Desmond Tutu studied at King's College London.

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Mahatma Gandhi - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, better known as Mahatma Gandhi, left India for the UK at age 18 in 1888, to study law at the University College London and become a barrister.

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Harper Lee - 'To Kill a Mockingbird' author Harper Lee studied law at the University of Alabama before becoming a writer. It was during her time at the university that Lee jetted off to the UK to do a summer semester at the University of Oxford.

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Gene Wilder - The legendary American actor moved to Britain in 1955, to study at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

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Elon Musk - The man behind SpaceX and Tesla attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, for two years before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania.

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Andrea Barber - 'Fuller House' actress Andrea Barber has a master's degree in Women's Studies. She studied at the University of York in the UK.

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Sebastian Stan - The Romanian-American actor and 'Captain America' star spent a year studying acting at London's Shakespeare's Globe.

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Alexander Skarsgård - The 'True Blood' actor studied at Leeds Beckett University in the UK for six months, after finishing military service in his native Sweden.

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Joss Whedon - Director Joss Whedon spent two years at Winchester College boarding school in his youth in the UK.

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Joely Richardson -

'The Tudors' actress was born and raised in the UK until she was 12 years old. It was then that her parents enrolled her in a boarding school in Florida on a tennis scholarship.

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