Perhaps, and it's just a theory, the privately educated actors on our screens and stages got there by accident.
It reminds me of the final scene of the film Les Misérables, in which largely privately educated actors stand on the barricades and wave the Tricolore.
The shadow arts minister, Chris Bryant, asked the other day: "Where are the Albert Finneys and the Glenda Jacksons?" Where are you on the debate about privately educated actors?
Known for educating actors and Olympic athletes, the school now has more than 300 tennis players.
In the words of Bond writer Raymond Benson, Young educated the actor "in the ways of being dapper, witty, and above all, cool".
As a kind of Vietnam-era Wally Cox, the Ohio-born, Yale-educated actor came of age along with the great James Earl Jones, Zohra Lampert, and Barbara Harris: nervous stars for an anxious age.
In a comment piece in the New York Times, usually reserved for policy wonks and public intellectuals, Shields, a Princeton-educated actor and former model, argued that Cruise's comments are "a disservice to mothers everywhere".
Holy Wood teaches by educating the actor's heart and filling it with healthy feelings and abundant messages of love to convey in pictures what make our world a beautiful place of joy to live in.
McKellen did, however, give another Eton-educated actor his first film role: Dominic West, who played the Earl of Richmond.
The Eton-educated actor was the face of the British fashion house's Spring/Summer 2013 range along with another model-turned-actress, Cara Delevinge.
But this Cambridge-educated actor is getting his first taste of real stardom and all of the perks and hassles that come along with it.
