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It’s National Best Friends Day — Check Out 9 Celebrity Duos Who’ve Been Friends Since Childhood!

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Jun 8, 2016 4:59 pm·

By Samantha Faragalli

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Happy National Best Friends Day!

To celebrate this fun holiday, click through the gallery to see nine celebrity duos who have been friends since childhood!

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Kate Hudson and Liv Tyler

Kate, 37, and Liv, 38, met as kids because their famous parents — Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell and Steven Tyler and Bebe Buell, respectively — were friends! As they grew older, the actresses attended the Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences and costarred in the 2000 film Dr. T and the Women together.

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Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio

Tobey, 40, and Leo, 41, have been best buds since they were child actors trying to make it big in the 'biz. They both starred in the hit film, The Great Gatsby!

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Gwyneth Paltrow and Maya Rudolph

Maya and Gwyneth, both 43, first met when the pair were classmates at St. Augustine by the Sea elementary school in Santa Monica, Calif., and have remained close to this day!

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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon

No surprise here! Matt, 45, and Ben, 43, grew up together in Cambridge, Mass., and both took drama classes at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.

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Debi Mazar and Madonna

The actress, 51, and the "Material Girl," 57, met when Debi worked as one of Madonna's makeup artists — and they've been friends ever since!

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Jon Hamm and Paul Rudd

The Mad Men star, 45, and the funnyman, 47, have been friends for more than 20 years!

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Connie Britton and Kirsten Gillibrand

Did you know Connie and the Senator, both 49, were once college roommates?! The duo lived together during a summer study abroad program in Beijing while they were undergraduates at Dartmouth!

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Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore

The 69-year-old actor and the former Vice President, 68, were random college roommates during their freshman year at Harvard and went on to live together for the remainder of their undergraduate careers!

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Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez

Demi and Selena, both 23, first met in 2002 on the set of Barney & Friends — they were both seven-years-old at the time. The girls remained friends, and starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie Princess Protection Program together in 2009.