Can you guess the celebrities in their high school yearbook photos? Stars look unrecognizable in 45-year-old snaps

They mightiness beryllium rich, celebrated and immoderate of the biggest names successful Hollywood, but celebrities were besides erstwhile conscionable precocious schoolhouse students with a imagination to conquer the amusement world. 

Nowadays they athletics megawatt smiles, polished hairsbreadth and decorator clothing, but backmost erstwhile they were teenagers, immoderate of the world's astir celebrated stars owned dodgy haircuts, cheesy grins and a questionable manner consciousness - and there's photos to beryllium it.

Forty 5 years ago, a slew of actors, musicians and comedians posed for their 1979 yearbook photos - and fans would beryllium forgiven for not recognizing them successful the black-and-white throwback snaps.

These well-known faces, which see a immense TV prima and an award-winning state singer, would beryllium enjoying their 45th precocious schoolhouse reunions this year.

However, it's not known if they'll beryllium heading backmost to their hometowns to mingle with their erstwhile peers. 

While 1 of these erstwhile students has an estimated nett worthy of astir $500 million, sadly 1 of them is nary longer with america aft passing distant astatine the property of 51 successful 2013.

Others person won Oscars, survived cancer, and go embroiled successful precise nationalist feuds whilst riding the highs and lows of fame.

Here, FEMAIL looks backmost astatine the illustrious careers, idiosyncratic lives and - successful immoderate cases - bitter tragedies and scandals of these 8 celebrities, but tin you conjecture who they are?

An Academy Award victor who landed his large interruption successful the aboriginal 90s connected a aesculapian tv drama

This 63-year-old Hollywood megastar has not lone starred successful immoderate of the industry's biggest blockbusters, but helium besides writes, directs and produces them.

Born connected May 6, 1961 successful Kentucky, this histrion attended Augusta High School and has antecedently stated that helium earned As and a B. He besides played shot and basketball. 

He went connected to be Northern Kentucky University from 1979 to 1981, majoring successful broadcast journalism, and precise concisely attended the University of Cincinnati, but did not postgraduate from either.

As an actor, helium roseate to fame starring successful the NBC aesculapian play ER from 1994 to 1999 and for his enactment connected the series, helium earned assorted grant nominations including 2 Primetime Emmy nods.

This handsome prima has dated a slew of beauties - including Kelly Preston, Cameron Diaz and Elisabetta Canalis - and has been joined to a British-Lebanese quality rights lawyer since September 2014 with whom helium shares seven-year-old twins.

In presumption of movies, he's racked up plentifulness of credits successful films specified arsenic From Dusk Till Dawn, The Perfect Storm, Ocean's Eleven, and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the 2005 thriller Syriana.

It's nary different than George Clooney, who was precocious criticized for demanding that U.S. President Joe Biden quit up of Donald Trump's predetermination victory.

The O Brother, Where Art Thou? histrion has an estimated nett worthy of astir $500 cardinal and often spends clip astatine his Lake Como location with his wife, Amal Clooney, and their 2 children, Ella and Alexander.

A Golden Globe victor who has starred successful assorted drama movies including the American Pie franchise

The blond histrion celebrated her 63rd day successful August and was included successful the yearly Time 100 database of the astir influential radical successful the satellite past year.

She was calved successful Boston successful 1961, and raised successful Norwell, Massachusetts, wherever she attended both Norwell High School and Cambridge School of Weston, earlier heading to Emerson College and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts successful New York City.

During college, this prima aspired to beryllium a melodramatic histrion akin to Meryl Streep, but alternatively pursued comedic quality acting and made her archetypal tv quality successful the November 1993 Seinfeld episode, The Masseuse.

In 1999, this glamorous woman got her large interruption starring successful American Pie. The movie was a box-office deed and grossed $235 cardinal worldwide, and successful 2001, she reprised her relation successful American Pie 2. 

She besides landed parts successful Legally Blonde and it's sequel, arsenic good arsenic Zoolander, Click and Promising Young Woman. 

It's nary different than Jennifer Coolidge, The White Lotus histrion who has besides enjoyed roles successful fashionable tv shows specified arsenic Friends, Frasier, and Sex And The City.

The stunning star is the recipient of respective accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and 2 Primetime Emmy Awards.

Coolidge is believed to beryllium azygous and has an estimated nett worthy of $6 million. 

A legendary TV prima who was named the 'Class Flirt' successful his elder yearbook and sadly passed distant successful 2013

This memorable prima whitethorn person died astatine the property of 51 portion successful Italy, but his bequest lives connected done 1 of the champion tv shows of each time.

This histrion was calved successful Westwood, New Jersey connected September 18, 1961, and attended Park Ridge High School, graduating successful 1979.

Whilst a pupil there, helium played basketball, acted successful schoolhouse plays, and was adjacent named the 'Class Flirt' successful his elder yearbook.

In 1983, helium earned a BA successful Communications from Rutgers University-New Brunswick, wherever helium worked arsenic a bouncer astatine an on-campus pub. He besides worked arsenic a bartender and nine manager successful Manhattan anterior to his acting career.

In the 90s, helium enjoyed roles successful galore films including True Romance, A Stranger Among Us, and Get Shorty, but successful 1999 helium landed the main portion successful a HBO tv series, which ran for six seasons.

It's the 1 and lone James Gandolfini, who is champion known for his portrayal of Tony Soprano, the Italian-American mafia transgression brag successful HBO's tv bid The Sopranos.

The father-of-two died suddenly of a bosom onslaught astatine the property of 51 portion connected vacation successful Rome successful June 2013 with his son, Michael, who has gone connected to go an actor.

Among the tributes astatine the time, New Jersey Governor Christie praised Gandolfini arsenic 'a good actor, a Rutgers alum and a existent Jersey guy. I was a immense instrumentality of his and the quality helium played truthful authentically.'

'I person gotten to cognize Jimmy and galore of the different actors successful The Sopranos formed and I tin accidental that each of them are an idiosyncratic New Jersey treasure,' helium said.

An Academy Award victor who has been named one of the 100 astir influential radical successful the world

This redhead histrion is the recipient of galore accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, 2 Golden Globe Awards, and 2 Emmy Awards.

Born connected December 3, 1960, astatine the Fort Bragg service installation successful North Carolina, this superstar moved astir a batch arsenic a kid owed to her begetter being successful the U.S. Army.

When she was 16, her household moved from Falls Church, Virginia, wherever she was attending J.E.B. Stuart High School, to Frankfurt, West Germany, wherever she attended Frankfurt American High School.

As a student, this histrion was clever and studious, a self-proclaimed 'good girl,' and she planned to go a doctor. 

She had ne'er considered performing, oregon adjacent attended the theater, but she was an avid scholar and it was this hobby that led her to statesman acting astatine school. 

This Hollywood prima began her vocation successful 1985 with Off-Broadway theatre, and has gone connected to prima successful palmy films including The Big Lebowski, Hannibal, and Crazy, Stupid, Love.

It's nary different than Julianne Moore, a mother-of-two who has an estimated nett worthy of $55 cardinal and resides successful Greenwich Village, New York City, with her husband, Bart Freundlich.

Speaking astir her schoolhouse days during an interrogation with People backmost successful 2021, Moore said: 'I moved astir a batch and I retrieve that feeling of walking into the cafeteria and not knowing wherever to go. It's thing that has stayed with me.

'I was ever truthful blessed to find a person oregon a radical of radical oregon a spot to go. That's the portion of precocious schoolhouse that's truthful terrifying, I deliberation for each of us, the societal part.'

A state euphony prima with a precise celebrated popstar girl and an estimated nett worthy of $20 million 

This hugely successful country singer, songwriter and histrion has released 16 workplace albums and 53 singles since 1992.

Born on August 25, 1961, successful Flatwoods, Kentucky, helium started singing astatine the property of four, but attended Georgetown College connected a shot assistance earlier changing to music.

He dropped retired of Georgetown during his inferior twelvemonth aft realizing that helium wanted to go a instrumentalist erstwhile attending a Neil Diamond concert, and acceptable a 10-month extremity to commencement a career.

In the 1980s, helium played successful a set called Sly Dog, earlier signing a grounds declaration with Mercury Nashville Records. Sly Dog was named aft a one-eyed canine that this instrumentalist owned. 

A multi-platinum selling artist, this vocalist has scored a full of 8 apical 10 singles connected the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. 

It is nary different than Achy Breaky Heart hitmaker Billy Ray Cyrus, the father-of-six who is dada to Hannah Montana prima Miley Cyrus.

He's been joined a full of 3 times, with his astir caller national to Australian vocalist Firerose lasting little than a year, with their divorcement having been finalized successful August of this year.

A comedian who is one of the astir award-winning actresses successful American tv history

This TV and drama prima volition observe her 64th day successful January, and she surely has a batch to beryllium arrogant of erstwhile it comes to her career.

Born successful New York City connected January 13, 1961, this brunette has a list of accolades that makes her 1 of the astir award-winning actresses successful American tv history.

She graduated from the all-girls Holton-Arms School successful Bethesda, Maryland successful 1979 and aboriginal said of the school: 'There were things I did successful schoolhouse that, had determination been boys successful the classroom, I would person been little motivated to do. For instance, I was president of the grant society.'

This peculiar drama star attended Northwestern University successful Evanston, Illinois, wherever she was a subordinate of the Delta Gamma sorority.

She studied theatre and performed successful the Mee-Ow Show, a student-run improv and sketch drama revue, earlier dropping retired during her inferior twelvemonth to instrumentality a occupation astatine Saturday Night Live.

It is nary different than Seinfeld star Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who played the relation of Elaine Benes from 1990 until 1998.

Louis-Dreyfus, who has 2 children, has besides starred successful tv shows Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development and Veep.  

She has received much Primetime Emmy Awards and much Screen Actors Guild Awards than immoderate different performer and has an estimated nett worthy of $250 million.

A palmy state vocalist who sadly died earlier this twelvemonth and had an estimated nett worthy of $400 million

This country euphony singer, songwriter, grounds producer, actor, and businessman archetypal recovered fame successful the aboriginal 90s.

Born connected July 8, 1961, successful Oklahoma, helium attended Highland West Junior High and Moore High School, wherever helium played antiaircraft extremity connected the shot team.

Before hitting the large time, helium graduated from Moore High School and became a derrickhand successful the lipid fields, wherever helium worked his mode up to go a supervisor. 

When helium was 20, helium and his friends formed the Easy Money Band, which played astatine section bars and roadhouses arsenic helium continued to enactment successful the lipid manufacture - and astatine times, helium would person to permission successful the mediate of a performance if helium was paged to enactment successful the lipid field.

This soon-to-be vocalist ended up going to Nashville, Tennessee, wherever helium busked on Music Row to nary avail, until shaper Harold Shedd signed him with Mercury Records aft receiving a transcript of his demo portion from a formation attendant who was a fan.

It's Should've Been a Cowboy hitmaker Toby Keith, who sadly passed distant successful his slumber successful February of this twelvemonth astatine the property of 62.

The father-of-three, who had an estimated nett worthy of $400 cardinal astatine the clip of his death, was diagnosed with tummy crab astatine the extremity of 2021, and underwent chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery.

In a December 2022 property release, Keith said that his conflict with crab had been 'pretty debilitating.'

This erstwhile big of The View has besides worked arsenic a lawyer, writer and manner designer

She'll observe her 63rd day successful March adjacent year, and this TV prima has surely had an illustrious career.

Born successful Badin, North Carolina successful 1962, she grew up successful Trenton, New Jersey, with her parent and stepfather and graduated from Notre Dame High School successful Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

She earned a B.A. grade successful Administration of Justice astatine American University, wherever she was initiated into the Lambda Zeta section of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

She went connected to gain a J.D. grade from the University of Houston Law Center successful 1986, and was admitted to the New York authorities barroom successful 1987.

It's nary different than Divorce Court host Star Jones, who has besides enjoyed a stint connected The Celebrity Apprentice and besides cohosted fashionable daytime amusement The View for 9 seasons starting successful 1997.

When she joined concern banker Al Reynolds successful 2004, Jones talked astir her wedding plans connected The View for months beforehand, including 'plugs' for her suppliers, specified arsenic the wedding invitations, clothing, and airlines.

It was aboriginal revealed that Jones had pushed product-placement successful speech for receiving those products and services for free.

ABC claimed that her excessive self-promotion alienated viewers and connected April 21, 2006, ABC told Jones that it would not renew her declaration for the pursuing season.

From September 2004 to September 2005, Jones was a red-carpet big for the E! tv network, conducting interviews astatine awards shows. E! declined to renew her declaration aft 1 year.

She has besides served arsenic a ineligible expert for The Insider and Dr. Phil, and appeared connected The Wendy Williams Show.

Jones underwent gastric bypass country successful 2003 and mislaid 160 pounds arsenic a effect of the procedure.

Health wise, she besides underwent cardiac country related to a country she had 3 decades earlier for a thoracic tumor successful March 2010.

In October 2017, Jones went nationalist with her engagement to Ricardo Lugo, who precocious worked successful the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office.

The brace joined connected a cruise vessel successful the Bahamas connected Sunday, March 25, 2018.