Here Are Your Favorite Celebrities You Never Knew Were Cheerleaders

Published on 06/01/2020
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Halle Berry

Halle Berry, daughter of a hospital manager and psychiatric nurse, did it all at Bedford High School in Cleveland, where she was a cheerleader, honor student, school newspaper editor, and was also a prom queen. Berry made her TV debut in 1989, and two years later, in Spike Lee ‘s film Jungle Fever, she came out on a big screen. Around 2001, for her performance in Monsters Ball, the talented actress became the first African-American to receive an Academy Award for Best Actress. As of February 2019, she became an executive producer of the Boomerang TV series BET, based on the film she acted in.  

Halle Berry

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Eva Longoria

Cheerleading was not only an extracurricular activity she loved for Mexican – American actress Eva Longoria, but also one that promptly incorporated into a successful career in Hollywood. At Roy Miller High School, in Corpus Christi, Texas, Longoria was a cheerleader and she managed to cheer at Texas A&M-Kingsville throughout her college years. Longoria won the Miss Corpus Christi pageant in 1998, in which a theatrical agent in Los Angeles spotted her. Longoria, in the ABC series Desperate Housewives, is best known for her role as Gabrielle Solic. Longoria has appeared in a number of advertising campaigns. She has even been named one of Hollywood’s most beautiful women by several publications, including People en Español and People magazines.    

Eva Longoria

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