Star Students

Careers and Colleges, March, 2001

STAR STUDENTS
"I'm not a college student, but I play one on TV." That could be the
catchphrase for many youngstars. But we uncovered a few celebs who have
actually spent some time hitting the books at college campuses. We also
found, that sometimes art really does imitate life. Or vice versa...
Traci Mosser
Star                Role
Tangi Miller        Elena Tyler
                    "Felicity"
Sara Gilbert        Darlene Connor
                    "Roseanne"
David               Angel
Boreanaz            "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
                    and "Angel"
Jamie-Lynn Sigler   Meadow Soprano
                    "The Sopranos"
Kellie Martin       Lucy Knight
                    "ER"
James Van Der Beek  Dawson Leery
                    "Dawson's
                    Creek"
Star                Fake College Connection
Tangi Miller        Elena is a brainy pre-med junior who
                    earns great grades at fictional University
                    of New York.
Sara Gilbert        Goes off to art school; nominated for
                    Emmy honors.
David               Dumps his slayer girlfriend who enrolls at
Boreanaz            Sunnydale College.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler   Her college tour of Northeast
                    schools is nearly interrupted
                    by mobster father's criminal
                    activities.
Kellie Martin       She's a medical student who
                    is stabbed to death by a psy-
                    chotic law student.
James Van Der Beek  Gets a taste of college life when he visits a
                    prestigious Ivy League university in Boston
                    where his film "Escape from Witch Island" is
                    in a student film festival.
Star                Real College Connection
Tangi Miller        Tangi is a real life brain who
                    earned a B.A. in marketing from
                    Alabama State University and an
                    MFA from the University of
                    California.
Sara Gilbert        Goes off to Yale to major in art;
                    graduated with honors.
David               Dumped the East Coast for sunny California
Boreanaz            after earning his film degree at Ithaca College.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler   Her psychology studies at New York University
                    are interrupted when she agrees to star in
                    "The Sopranos."
Kellie Martin       Martin is an art history student at Yale who
                    recently wed Columbia University law student
                    Keith Christian.
James Van Der Beek  Gets a taste for college life as an English and
                    sociology major on academic scholarship at
                    Drew University before putting studies on hold
                    to star in "Dawson's Creek."