Intelligent Celebrities

John Waters always comes off as very witty and well read.

America Ferrara

Gillian Anderson

Ken Jeong

Donald Trump

Geena Davis

Natalie Portman

Lupita Nyong'o

Stockard Channing (only actor on WW actually holding a Harvard degree)

Stephen Fry.

All the Monty Python group.

Emma Thompson.

Brian May.

Anyone who's ever played Doctor Who.

that Korean actor comedian who was in Hungerover...he's an MD in real life if my memory serves

Madonna

Sharon Stone

James Woods

Gina Davis

Shakira

Cindy Crawford

Rowan Atkinson (MSc in EE from Oxford)

Ke$ha

I would add Mayim. But won't because she can't stop reminding people of her degree.

Gerard Butler. He can be a lawyer if he wants to...

DL fave Nolan Gould who has grown up to become an obese midget, unfortunately.

David Lynch.

Natalie Portman, of course. David Duchovny.

R18, you call this obese?

Albert Brooks

Mel Brooks

Elaine May

Larry David

Meryl tick tick tick Streep

R21 Let’s say endomorph, the opposite of a model’s physique.

Obese?

R18 you don't look so hot yourself.

R26 I don‘t wanna be rude but he looks like a pig there tbh.

Anjelica Huston, & Kristin Scott Thomas

Conan O'Brian

In Britain, acting has become one of "the professions", something suitable for an intelligent and artsy young person from a wealthy or aristocratic family. Becoming an actor-writer is considered a respectable use for an Oxbridge education, and if you're a bit more famous than your classmates who went into banking or became CEOs, you're probably as wealthy.

Rich kids who aren't smart enough to become actors become models or "influencers", until they find a suitable spouse. It's taken the place of shoving useless younger children into the church.

Lisa Kudrow has a biology degree

Fritz Weaver.

Julie Newmar

Meryl Streep is not overly intelligent. She picks up accents easily and is a good mimic which leads people to assume she is smart.. She went to the Yale School of Drama which is not the same as Yale. She does the old Gypsy Rose Lee trick of reading the New York Times Review of Books and pretending to have read the book. I have caught her up a few times.

Jessica Simpson

Streep also graduated from Vassar. Not the worst school, you twat.

R35, not the best either. I am also a graduate.

Look, she isn't stupid , but she isn't particularly intelligent.

Diane Venora (character actress, Julliard)

Mira Sorvino, majored in Chinese language I believe.

Dolph Lundgren has a masters degree in chemical engineering

Brian May is an astrophysicist

Quinn Cummings

Idris Elba

Daniel Day Lewis

Danica McKellar - BSc in mathematics summa cum laude from UCLA. Has collaborated on research papers.

Joaquin Phoenix seems like he might be an idiot savant.

Tannis Vallely

R31 Interesting. I have noticed, too, that a lot of British actors have Oxbridge education background. From upcoming Emma Corrin to hideous-looking Tom Hiddleston to uber-slut Kate Beckinsale etc. Do the actors from white trash backgrounds end up on daily soaps in Britain mostly?

Christopher Reeve

Joan Allen

Orson Welles

Anthony Perkins

R35 Well, it's not like she went to Wellesley.

Val Kilmer

Jodie Foster defends Mel Gibson so that makes her dumb.

Edward Norton is also highly educated, like Foster. He used to boink Courtney Love. Dumb.

Harry Hamlin

And he says Lisa Rinna is the smartest person he’s known. I actually believe him, I think she plays down her intelligence.

Vassar WAS one of the best schools before it went co-Ed. All those schools were like going to the Ivy League.

I'm glad that I'm seeing posters list at least somewhat intelligent performers. For the last decade the trend has been to insist that any popular female sex symbol is actually secretly very intelligent. Britney is actually very smart! And so is Kim Kardashian! And Paris Hilton! Also Anna Nicole Smith was really a genius because she was in on the joke! Interestingly I don't see people insist that every male beefcake is also an unacknowledged Einstein.

Julia Roberts

Pete Buttigig

Katharine Hepburn

Rosie O’Donnell

Love 'em or hate 'em, James Woods and Jon Voight are both well-spoken independent thinkers. And both great actors.

R42 He wouldn't be such a good actor if he was an idiot. Also, idiots aren't passionate. He's passionate about animals and planet, has been vegan his whole life.

R54 When the hell were Britney and Paris sex symbols?

R59 When we did this .

What about that ugly Myiam Balik? Don’t care how her name is spelled! She’s supposed to be a Nero Scientist. Doesn’t matter, she’s still ugly.

[quote] Jodie Foster defends Mel Gibson so that makes her dumb.

I have a feeling she did that so people would see her movie.

Anya Taylor-Joy and Florence Pugh, Cate Blanchett, and believe it or not, Cindy Crawford is a little sophisticated too.

Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, Lupita Nyong'o.

Conan O’ Brian

yes Conan went to Harvard

John Cho went to UC Berkeley, very good school

Chris Pine also went to UC Berkeley

Jeff Goldblum. Supposedly a genius-level IQ. He's also known for having a highly eccentric personality, and his acting style most definitely reflects that characteristic.

Is UC Berkeley prestigious at all when they have a acceptance rate of 15%?

UC Berkeley and Harvard are both overrated garbage trash.

Colton Underwood.

Oh, wait! Neither intelligent nor a celebrity. My bad!

Rebel Wilson has a law degree.

Degrees from well to do schools don't make people intelligent by default. Gives them an overinflated ego, sure, but an engineering degree from Harvard doesn't indicate anything more than above average competence and a strong drive to work hard or study.

John Waters, who is often listed in these kinds of threads, did not go to college - he got kicked out of NYU. He comes off as much smarter than Meryl or the pretentious Jodie Foster.

R74 Not true in most cases. The SAT works like an IQ test and it’s correlation to other IQ tests is about 0.7. SO an engineering degree from Harvard means IQ 125+ in most cases as a conservative estimate.

Joanna Lumley. Did very well on Celebrity Mastermind.

R74 It takes more than "above average competence" to deal with the math needed to get an engineering degree from Harvard or MIT.

Megan Fox... would have you believe she is.

R61 You must be much better looking and smarter than a "Nero Scientist."

Right now Kristen Stewart is refreshing this thread to see if her name comes up.

I didn't know about IQ/SAT scores. My cousin scored 1600 in the days before prep testing, went on to an engineering degree from MIT so that checks out. 152 IQ, genes can be so unfair.

Huey Lewis of all people I once read for an SAT score of I believe 1560. He went to Lawrenceville and Cornell (back when Cornell was good).

Martha Stewart

Brooke Shields

[quote] She does the old Gypsy Rose Lee trick of reading the New York Times Review of Books and pretending to have read the book.

Just as I've caught you confusing the NYT Book Review section with the New York Review of Books

R84 No, Brooke only got admitted to Princeton for PR reasons.

"Jeff Goldblum. Supposedly a genius-level IQ. "

He had this TV show "The World According to Jeff Goldblum", and didn't come off as very smart. He was supposed to be looking at sciency stuff, and he was constantly talking over the experts in the subject of the week, in a slow, self-absorbed way, and he came off as being so uninterested in anything besides himself that any IQ he may have was wasted.

R86 Back in the 80's I remember Life Magazine published her report card from Princeton and she got straight A's.

Clint Eastwood

[quote] Brooke Shields

HAH! She was accepted at Princeton despite low SAT scores. She was allowed to graduate despite not taking any math or science courses. Strings were pulled. She's no mental heavyweight.

What about Sharon Stone? Is she really a member of mensa?

[quote] Back in the 80's I remember Life Magazine published her report card from Princeton and she got straight A's.

She had a soft course load. Nothing about Brooke Shields has indicated that she's of high intelligence, although she has always been career savvy, even as a teenager.

[quote]He had this TV show "The World According to Jeff Goldblum", and didn't come off as very smart. He was supposed to be looking at sciency stuff, and he was constantly talking over the experts in the subject of the week, in a slow, self-absorbed way, and he came off as being so uninterested in anything besides himself that any IQ he may have was wasted.

R87, that show just started it's second season. Goldblum is just being is quirky self. I do wonder if he ad libs or not. I like the show.

This should be a short thread

I like it when Jeff Goldblum is guest on Stephen Colbert.

Demetri Martin is good with palindromes.

D-list Scots actor Sean Biggerstaff, though sadly I rather think his intelligence has worked to his career detriment.

His Twitter activity is constant, and hyper focused on Labour politics and how the British government on both benches is a shambles. He’s right in almost all he says and agrees with, but my goodness does it make for depressing reading. His social media doesn’t ever show himself having fun or looking cute or doing anything creative, just forevet talking about political woes or making the occasional philosophical observation.

Switched-on bloke and nice-looking too, but he perhaps shouldn’t have chosen to become a screen actor by vocation, in this vapid day and age. He would have made a more effective and powerful gonzo journalist, political activist, or even a satirical comedian.

Ashton Kutcher

Jennifer Connelly is an Ivy Leaguer

R99😍😍😍

As a babydyke, I couldnt decide whether I wanted to be Jennifer or be *with* Jennifer. She’s so beautiful then and now. Paul Bettany is the luckiest man alive.

Ah tbh I only care about famous men who are thick as pigshit as well as mad fit. More entertaining that way.

People like Mayim Byalik, Dan Grimaldi of "The Sopranos", and Brian May seem to be real-deal intelligentsia, but went into showbiz because it's more fun and more lucrative than academia.

And then there's 1960s satirical songmaster Tom Lehrer, who quit showbiz to become a professor of mathematics, when he decided that the news wasn't funny any more.

R102, actually Mayim Byalik returned to acting because she could not get family health insurance as a scientist.

Bridgit Mendler. At least she is not as pretty as she used to be….

Robert Vaughn, the original Man from UNCLE, had a PhD in communications from USC.

Henry Morgan

Don Herbert

Edward Murrow

I was a college film school teacher that quit to work for FEMA because it had better benefits.

Life sucks!

Robert Downey Jr. has always seemed pretty sharp, despite poor decision-making abilities.

Having attended school with him, I can confirm that Justin Long is a very smart guy (also a total sweetheart).

Jodie Foster, Gillian Anderson and Sigourney Weaver all play smart with a tight-lipped seriousness and pronounce their "S's" with a "shh" sound.

I love being uneducated