Actor Brian Tyree Henry (If Beale Street Could Talk, Widows, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) received his degree from Yale School of Drama.
Tatyana Ali, an alum of “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” graduated from Harvard in 2002.
Comedic great David Alan Grier (Boomerang, “In Living Color”) graduated from Yale School of Drama in 1981.
Actress and model Yaya DaCosta received her degree from Brown University.
Ryan Leslie graduated from what U.S. News & World Report calls the greatest university in the world, Harvard, at an astounding 19 years old — the same age when many students are graduating high school and entering college.
Hill Harper of “CSI: NY” and “The Good Doctor” fame is like his buddy Barack Obama in that he is an alum of two Ivy League schools. He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 1988. He was also a student at Harvard Law School with Obama and graduated cum laude in 1992.
Rashida Jones, daughter of music mogul Quincy Jones and an actress and producer, graduated from Harvard University in 1997.