Suri Cruise Graduates From NY High School, Might Attend Carnegie Mellon University

Suri Cruise entered the world in perhaps the most public way possible: the infant child of actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes made her public debut in the pages of Vanity Fair, the center of a lush photoshoot by storied photographer Annie Leibovitz in 2006. A few years later, the famous couple split, and since then, sightings of the father and daughter have dwindled, as has Suri’s presence in the public eye. Her low profile might be why Gen Xers and older Millennials are reacting with disbelief this weekend, as they learn that the tiny, Leibovitz-photographed baby is now a young adult who just graduated from high school.

Suri Cruise in an undated photo.

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Page Six reports that until Friday’s graduation ceremony, Suri Cruise was a student at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, a public high school in New York City with a stunning list of famous graduates including Awkwafina, Sarah Paulson, and Zazie Beetz. Unlike many of the school’s alumni, Suri was globally famous even before her freshman year at the school, and the subject of much speculation given her father’s controversial faith.

Suri Cruise and Tom Cruise visit Charles River Basin on October 10, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Some might cite that faith as the reason Tom Cruise was not there for Suri’s landmark event. A beaming Holmes, who appears to have been responsible for Suri’s upbringing since her 2012 divorce from Tom Cruise, watched from the audience at Manhattan’s United Palace Theatre, as her 18-year-old daughter crossed the stage to claim her diploma.

There’s always the possibility, of course, that Cruise’s ongoing shooting schedule for the next Mission Impossible film prevented his attendance, or that he had another commitment he couldn’t pass up. Or perhaps the name on the invitation to the ceremony threw him: According to Page Six, LaGuardia’s graduation program didn’t list a “Suri Cruise,” only a “Suri Noelle.”

That’s the same name Holmes and Cruise’s daughter used in the playbill for her school’s spring musical, but it’s unclear if Suri has legally changed her name. (Either way, “Noelle” is a likely nod to Holmes, as the moniker is her middle name.) As it has with other famous progeny, the answer to Suri’s name enigma might become clearer this fall, when Suri will reportedly matriculate at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s Carnegie Mellon University.

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