Elijah Kelley was quick with the jokes, but he was clearly impressed as David Todd listed his honors from Troup High School.

Showing off a host of ribbons and medals, Todd said he was a magna cum laude graduate last month, a member and officer in the school’s Thespian Society, honor thespian, double and triple honor thespian, an International Honor Thespian, a member of Junior University, a member of the Beta Club and National Honors Society, an Army Scholar Athlete and was recognized for his performance on the Georgia Work Ready Test.

Todd also received a $1,000 scholarship from the Elijah Kelley Foundation Fund, which recognized him for his acting achievements.

“We had no idea he had won all these other awards,” said Kelley’s mother, Everlene Flournoy, who presented the scholarship to Todd at an honors day program.

Kelley, a Hollywood actor, singer and Troup High grad, said he set up the foundation to help students who excel in the performing arts.

“We also want to raise students’ awareness that they can do anything,” he said last week on a visit to his hometown of LaGrange. “We want to be the liaison between the students and their dreams.”

Todd started acting in church musicals in kindergarten and progressed to plays in high school and with LaGrange Lyric Theatre. He has had roles in plays such as “The Foreigner,” “Suessical: The Musical,” “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” “Arkansaw Bear” and “The King and I.”

This fall Todd will enter Oglethorpe University as a theater and history major. His future goals are to study Shakespeare at Oxford University and pursue a law degree.

Kelley, 23, now lives in Los Angeles. He appeared in the films “Take the Lead” and “28 Days,” and co-starred in the musical film re-adaptation of “Hairspray.”

He also has a role in “Red Tails,” an upcoming George Lucas film based on the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of black combat pilots during World War II.