I went to Wylie E. Groves High School in Birmingham, MI. The only "real" famous people that went to Groves were Sam Raimi (Director of the Evil Dead and Spiderman Movies), his brother Ted, and Bruce Cambell (Starred in the Evil Dead movies).
There was a girl in the same grade as me who acted in at least two Hollywood movies. I'm pretty sure she was in the movie Last Rites starring Tom Berenger. The role was more than just a "walk-on" but I don't remember her name nor do I see it listed at the International Movie Data Base (IMDB). Can't remember the name of the second movie either. My high school yearbook was either stolen or lost several years ago so that's not available either to help identify her.
There have been a couple students who went on to become TV News Broadcasters (i.e., reading the news to the camera) such as:
Catherine Leahan originally on one of the Detroit TV stations. I think she is now doing the same thing in the Baltimore area.
There is a Lila Lazarus who is doing some news broadcasting on Channel 4 in Detroit.
Claire Chan is a violinist in a group called the Jade String Trio that tours regularly.
Tony Grey was head of Microsoft's Internet Explorer development group at one time.
Sarah Wheeler was a music artist. I've seen some of her recordings but she never made it big in the USA. She apparently was very popular in Japan.
There are some other Groves students who are musicians who are hired as session players to record Hollywood movie soundtracks (don't know their names).
Kari Bazzy posed for the September, 1984 Playboy issue "Girls of the Big 10".
I guess one could say that a Groves High School Letter Jacket might be considered famous. There is a scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off where some students at his high school are talking to him on the pay phone (scene where Ferris is simulating coughs on his keyboard). One of the students is wearing a Groves High School Letter Jacket. What is odd about this is that the scene was filmed at a Chicago School. I don't recognize any names in the movie credits and none of my friends know how the jacket ended up in the movie. It is possible that a Groves student unknown to me got a brief walk-on role and was allowed to wear the jacket. I graduated in 1982 and the Ferris Bueller movie was released in 1986 which means it was probably filmed in 1984-1985 so if a Groves student did get a walk-on, I should have heard about it very soon after the movie came out.
The next closest school(s) that had students who went on to become truly famous are:
1. Detroit Country Day High School - Robin Williams
2. Seaholm High School - Tim Allen
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