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(#1) Ryan Gosling
- 38
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(#2) Conan O'Brien
- 55
Conan O'Brien roomed with Curb Your Enthusiasm actor Jeff Garlin when they were struggling comics in Chicago. From the way O'Brien tells it, Garlin makes quite the rambunctious roommate.
"[He would] make me do impressions and skits for him for his amusement, and for some reason, I did" O'Brien told his audience. "He has that power. I didn't say no. I just was like, this guy is yelling at me to perform, I better do it."
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(#3) Connie Britton
- 51
Before they both became two of TV's most recognizable moms, Connie Britton and Lauren Graham shared an apartment in Los Angeles. After meeting in a New York acting class, both actresses hit it off, and eventually decided to move to LA together.
“Those are actually really fond memories,” Britton said, “You know, it’s that time when everything’s a possibility and we were just trying to live our dream.”
Real respects real, especially when it comes to TV royalty.
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(#4) Adam Sandler
- 52
Before Adam Sandler moved to New York to star on Saturday Night Live, he shared a Los Angeles apartment with writer/director Judd Apatow. Sandler later appeared on Apatow's short-lived series Undeclared, and the former roommates also teamed up for the 2009 film Funny People. According to Apatow, Sandler refused to get a car and got away with renting one "for 12 years."
When he finally made it to NYC, Sandler also continued to pay his LA rent because he feared being fired at any second. Talk about a loyal, if paranoid, roommate.
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(#5) Lindsay Lohan
- 32
Lindsay Lohan lived with Raven-Symoné for 14 months, although the That's So Raven star says LiLo was rarely home because she was so busy working. “She had her clothes in the apartment we were supposed to live in together," said Raven-Symoné, implying a little resentment.
Even still, Raven-Symoné came to her old roommate's defense on The View after being dissed by Jennifer Lawrence.
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(#6) Mel Gibson
- 63
Mel Gibson shared an apartment with fellow Australian actor Geoffrey Rush while they both studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney.
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(#7) Stanley Tucci
- 58
Actor Stanley Tucci roomed with Ving Rhames while attending Purchase College in New York. Rumor has it Tucci convinced Rhames to change his first name from Irving to Ving.
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(#8) Al Gore
- 70
Go figure the distinguished politician knows the distinguished actor through their time together at the distinguished Harvard University. As a result of their fateful pairing, Jones even spoke at the 2000 Democratic National Convention on Gore's " good, caring, loving" character.
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(#9) Holly Hunter
- 60
These two leading ladies of Hollywood met through their then-boyfriends, who at the time were best friends. Hunter and McDormand connected quickly, and even after their romantic relationships ended, their friendship continued and led to them rooming together.
Down the line, Hunter eventually introduced McDormand to her husband, Fargo director Joel Coen. At one point, the Coens lived with both Hunter and McDormand along with director Sam Raimi. Talk about star-studded living.
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(#10) Robert Downey Jr.
- 53
Robert Downey Jr. let his friend, 24 actor Kiefer Sutherland, live with him for three years while Sutherland started out on his career. During this time in the '80s, Sutherland provided Downey Jr. a "shoulder to cry on" while the Iron Man star dated Sarah Jessica Parker. They still make time for each other to this day, getting caught by the paps as they go antique shopping like an old couple. Swoon.
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(#11) Marilyn Monroe
- Dec. at 36 (1926-1962)
In the late 1940s, Marilyn Monroe roomed with Shelley Winters. When starting out together, Winters recalls the different ways they supported and entertained each other.
"One Sunday, we made a list of men we wanted to sleep with, and there was no one under 50 on hers," Winters said. "I never got to ask her before she died how much of her list she had achieved, but on her list was Albert Einstein, and after her death, I noticed that there was a silver-framed autographed picture of him on her white piano."
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(#12) Robin Williams
- Dec. at 63 (1951-2014)
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(#13) Jonah Hill
- 35
Justin Long and Jonah Hill lived together during the beginning of their Hollywood careers, eventually starring alongside each other on the 2006 film Accepted. Long stated they stopped living together because they started fighting "like an old married couple."
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(#14) Michael Douglas
- 74
Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito lived together in New York when they were both starting out their careers. Douglas described DeVito as very neat, a quality he jokingly remarked was "not very good for his image!" The two later collaborated on the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, in which DeVito appeared as the lovable character Martini while Douglas produced.
More recently, Douglas called DeVito his "oldest friend in the business."
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(#15) Dustin Hoffman
- 81
The now-Hollywood superstars shared an apartment in New York as young actors struggling to make it big. At this time, they also were buddies with Robert Duvall, whom Hoffman ended up rooming with after Hackman. As the years past, both Hackman and Hoffman went on to find massive fame.
At one point, both collaborated on the 2003 film Runaway Jury.
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(#16) John Cusack
- 52
The careers of John Cusack and Jeremy Piven overlapped quite a bit long after they roomed together in Chicago. They appeared in several films together including Say Anything..., The Grifters, and One Crazy Summer. Despite their lengthy shared history, it appears a feud has wedged itself between them.
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(#17) Jude Law
- 46
Jude Law and Ewan McGregor lived together for several years when they first moved to Hollywood. They later started their own production company together called Natural Nylon. Quite a fruitful relationship from the looks of it.
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(#18) Michelle Williams
- 38
While filming Blue Valentine, leads Williams and Gosling actually lived together off-screen. The director believed if the actors lived together off-screen, their performances would be more dramatic on camera. The fact that it garnered Williams an Academy Award nomination and Golden Globe nominations for both implies this decision paid off.
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(#19) Lea Michele
- 32
Despite Quinn Fabray's bulling of Rachel Berry during the first season of Glee, actresses Dianna Agron and Lea Michele lived together while filming. Rumors say they suffered a falling out, resulting in Agron's absence from many Glee-related events, but this could simply be a rumor birthed by the drama that already engulfed the TV show.
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(#20) Matt Damon
- 48
Unsurprisingly, one of Hollywood's premier bromances, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, started at childhood childhood. The actors lived together as they worked on the screenplay for Good Will Hunting, reportedly having a great deal of fun while doing so.
“We rented this house on the beach in Venice and 800 people came and stayed with us and got drunk,” Affleck has said. “Then we ran out of money and had to get an apartment.”
The film went on to win several Oscars, including one for Best Original Screenplay, propelling the actors into super-stardom.
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(#21) Owen Wilson
- 50
Actor Owen Wilson and writer/director Wes Anderson shared a dorm at the University of Texas. Arguably, their time together as dorm-mates led them both to their later success. Anderson, impressed by Wilson's acting, cast him in a stage production, and from there they continued to collaborate on both movies and mischief alike. At one point during a dispute with their landlord over broken windows, the duo even left their apartment in the middle of the night, only to be found by a private eye. It inspired a their short film, Bottle Rocket, starring Wilson and directed by Anderson, a film which caught the attention of independent film distributors.
From there, the duo continued to work on all sorts of projects together, including The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, and The Darjeeling Limited.
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(#22) Kristen Stewart
- 28
Co-stars Kristen Stewart and Nikki Reed lived together during the filming of The Twilight Saga: New Moon in Vancouver. Apparently, though the two actresses never got all that close, the entire cast frequently hung out and enjoyed co-star Peter Facinelli's culinary skills.
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(#23) Chace Crawford
- 30
Gossip Girl co-stars Chace Crawford and Ed Westwick lived together in New York during the first few seasons of the hit television show. Both of them decided to move in with each other due to mutual fears that the show would flop. Thankfully for them both, it did not. During their time together, Crawford said their friendship, and the help of a housekeeper, allowed them to run "a good ship."
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(#24) Amy Smart
- 42
In a bizarre stroke of good fortune and good looks, Amy Smart and Ali Larter met while modeling it Italy. They shared the same dream of acting and decided to move to Los Angeles where they sharde an apartment. Later both women appeared in the highly successful high school football film Varsity Blues.
Their friendship continued on throughout the years, with Larter serving as one of the bridesmaids in Smart's wedding in 2011.
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(#25) Robert Duvall
- 88
In 1955, Rubert Duvall and Dustin Hoffman lived together in a small apartment in New York. According to Hoffman, boundaries were not very much enforced in their pad.
“I’d get lucky,” said Hoffman, “and have a girl sleep over, and we’d be in the shower the next morning, and Bobby’d take his clothes off and just jump in the f*cking shower—‘Hey, I’m Bobby Duvall. I’m his roommate. I’m an actor. What do you do?’”
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(#26) Jim Cramer
- 64
Mad Money host Jim Cramer lived with disgraced politician Elliot Spitzer while they both attended Harvard University.
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(#27) David Lynch
- 73
Esteemed director David Lynch and J. Geils Band frontman Peter Wolf lived together at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Wolf remembers themselves as the "Odd Couple." Reportedly, Lynch, famed for his bizarre projects, found Wolf to be too weird, and eventually kicked him out for being late on rent payments. 20 years later, Wolf said Lynch still brings up the $43..20 that he owes him.
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(#28) Jon Stewart
- 56
The former host of The Daily Show and former Representative of New York lived together in a summer house in Delaware in 1987. Technically, Stewart lived with Weiner's then-girlfriend. Apparently his friend's fall from grace troubled Stewart, who would normally mock such falls on his show.
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(#29) Tom Cruise
- 56
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(#30) Eddie Redmayne
- 37
Long before they became contemporary heartthrobs, Redmayne and Dornan shared a flat. Both actors often received calls for the same script and/or auditions, which Dornan admits might have caused some friction between them initially. However, any hard feelings have likely passed, with Redmayne remembering living with Dornan as like living with "a puppy."
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Few people know that many celebrities were classmates before they became famous, and some were even close roommates. Although it is hard to imagine that millionaires like Justin Timberlake and Ryan Gosling once lived in other small rooms in addition to their luxurious Hollywood mansions. But in fact, some celebrities used to live in student dormitories or shared rooms with other people like all other ordinary people.
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