Aubrey Drake Graham is a rapper, songwriter, actor, and entrepreneur. He was born on October 24, 1986, in Toronto, Ontario. In his younger days, he attended a Jewish day school and became a bar mitzvah. He attended Forest Hill Collegiate Institute. He also studied at Vaughan Road Academy in the city's multicultural Oakwood–Vaughan neighborhood. Drake got bullied at school for his racial and religious background, and upon realizing that his busy class schedule was detrimental to his blossoming acting career, Drake dropped out of school. He later graduated in October 2012. He has passed his GED exam ten years after dropping out of school at age 15 to join other casts of "Degrassi: The Next Generation."