Actors without a theater degree from college

i'm not positive if John Lloyd Young has a degree in theater as well, but i know he went to brown and majored in business. he told me himself =)

Karen Ziemba was a dance major. She performed in a ballet company while in college.

Carolee Carmello has a degree in business administration.

Ben Kingsley who is in my opinion one of the the true greats doesn't have a theatre degree. He doesn't have any degree at all. Actually, he was turned away from RADA for being too good if you can believe it. Instead, the then head of acting at RADA set him up with a professional internship.

Really, a lot of the older American actors don't have degrees - at least not BFAs - because those types of programs were very rare when they were coming along. Neither did most of the great American acting teachers. I think Carnegie Mellon and DePaul were the only American schools offering acting degrees before the mid 1960s. I'm not completely sure about this, but I think even theatre studies degrees were few and far between.

Ben Kingsley doesn't have a theatre degree. He didn't even go to school for acting. The head of acting at his training program originally rejected him! Can you believe it pbn?