Top 12 Surprising Celebrity Teachers

To be a great teacher, you’ve got to know how to handle a crowd. Maybe that’s why these celebrities commanded their classrooms before finding fame.

Here are the Top 12 Surprising Celebrity Teachers:

Jon Hamm: The dashing Mad Men star was breaking high school hearts as a drama teacher at John Burroughs High School in St. Louis. In fact, he taught The Office's Ellie Kemper, who now stars with him in Bridesmaids. Showing off his teacher skills and lifelong memory of students, he even commented Ellie's success in a Sundance interview: "It's really cool to see them blossom and find their own way in."

Sylvester Stallone: One of the most celebrated action/adventure figures of all time, Sylvester Stallone is also a director, producer, screenwriter and former teacher. The Rocky and Rambo star survived boarding schools and a special education school for "problem children" as a child, and then enrolled in beauty school after high school graduation. Stallone dropped out of beauty school to attend the American College of Switzerland, where he studied drama and worked as a gym teacher.

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