Paul Rudd traveled with his family during his early years because of his father's airline job. he attended the Shawnee Mission West High School in Overland Park, Kansas, and then enrolled in the University of Kansas in Lawrence, majoring in theater. He graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts/West in Los Angeles and participated in a three-month intensive workshop under the guidance of Michael Kahn at the British Drama Academy at Oxford University in England. Rudd helped to produce the Globe Theater's production of Howard Brentons "Bloody Poetry," which starred Rudd as Percy Bysshe Shelley. Paul Stephen Rudd was raised in Overland Park, Kansas. His father is American, but his mother is English. He has one sister, three years younger than he. Paul attended Broadmoor Junior High and Shawnee Mission West High Schools. He graduated from High School in 1987 and had been Student Body President. He then attended the University of Kansas to find that he wasn't overly academic. Turning to his native charm and charisma, he applied to, and was accepted at, American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles.