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Ope! I Bet You Didn't Know These 12 Celebrities Hail From The Midwest

By Kailey Hansen,

2024-06-19

In just a few months, Chappell Roan went from less than two million Spotify listeners to over 19 million. Her performances at Coachella and the Governors Ball have catapulted her into mainstream music, featuring songs from her album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess .

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3cx6bb_0twKozIL00 — Nina Westervelt / Billboard via Getty Images

As her album title states, Roan hails from the Midwest, like many other celebs who later found success in Hollywood. Here are 12 famous faces whose roots are Middle America:

1. Chappell Roan

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2eeQfm_0twKozIL00 — Prior to Chappell Roan's femininomenon, the music artist spent most of her life in the small town of Willard, Missouri. Her song "California" discusses missing home while pursuing her dreams on the West Coast: "Come get me out of California, no leaves are brown. I miss the seasons in Missouri, my dying town."
Emma Mcintyre / Getty Images

6. Eminem

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3HkEZp_0twKozIL00 — For most of his childhood, Eminem lived in the Midwest. Born in St. Joseph, Missouri, he and his mother moved across the state throughout his early life, before settling in a Detroit suburb during middle school.
Christopher Polk / Variety via Getty Images

7. Melissa McCarthy

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0tPLPG_0twKozIL00 — Before *Gilmore Girls* ' Sookie St. James and before becoming one of Hollywood's most hilarious actors, Melissa McCarthy lived on her family's farm in Plainfield, Illinois, a rural town 35 miles outside of Chicago.
Michael Tran / AFP via Getty Images

8. Ashton Kutcher

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1zWh4P_0twKozIL00 — While Ashton Kutcher became a household name during *That '70s Show* , he originally hailed from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Kutcher lived in Iowa until young adulthood before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.
Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images

9. Nick Offerman

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=29aM9u_0twKozIL00 — Born in Joliet, Illinois, *Parks & Rec* actor Nick Offerman spent life until adulthood in-state. Offerman attended college at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign and founded a theater group with friends in Chicago.
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10. Halle Berry

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=06Boq3_0twKozIL00 — Born in Cleveland and raised in Oakwood, Ohio, Halle Berry is no stranger to Midwest living. She spent her childhood and teenage years in Ohio until becoming a big-name Hollywood star in the 90s.
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11. Chris Pratt

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1MieVa_0twKozIL00 — Before becoming a guardian of the galaxy or taming raptors, Chris Pratt spent his early years in Virginia, Minnesota. While he relocated with his family to Washington at age seven, Pratt still has notable Minnesotan roots.
Jamie Mccarthy / Getty Images

12. Mark Ruffalo

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2xDUze_0twKozIL00 — Perhaps the key to Mark Ruffalo's Midwestern charm is that the actor originally hails from Kenosha, Wisconsin. Ruffalo spent his childhood as a Wisconsinite until he moved to Virginia as a teenager.
Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

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Ope! I Bet You Didn't Know These 12 Celebrities Hail From The Midwest

In just a few months, Chappell Roan went from less than two million Spotify listeners to over 19 million. Her performances at Coachella and the Governors Ball have catapulted her into mainstream music, featuring songs from her album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess .

As her album title states, Roan hails from the Midwest, like many other celebs who later found success in Hollywood. Here are 12 famous faces whose roots are Middle America:

1. Chappell Roan

2. Gabrielle Union

3. Bill Murray

4. Kristen Bell

5. John Legend

6. Eminem

7. Melissa McCarthy

8. Ashton Kutcher

9. Nick Offerman

10. Halle Berry

11. Chris Pratt

12. Mark Ruffalo

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