–- Celebrities like Dolph Lundgren, Sylvester Stallone, among others, are not only pure muscles and beauty they hide something else.
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MEXICO CITY .- Celebrities such as Dolph Lundgren, Sylvester Stallone, Lisa Kudrow, Natalie Portman, Mayim Bialik and Cindy Crawford, among others, are not just pure muscles and beauty. Behind its so commercial side, true gifted and intelligent humans hide, with coefficients that would surprise more than one. Did you know these “closet nerds”?
She may be a “Material Girl”, but the so-called “Queen of Pop” has an IQ of 140 points. Perhaps that is why he has achieved such a successful career of more than 40 years. In 2010, Time magazine named her one of the 25 Most Powerful Women of the Last Century.
Raised in Bay City, Michigan, the singer, producer, actress, philanthropist, and activist studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts and earned a scholarship to study the arts at the University of Michigan.
DOLPH LUNDGREN
The Swede is not only the staunch rival of Rocky (Sylvester Stallone), but a fairly intelligent person, with an IQ of 160.
In addition to his acting skills, especially for action, Lundgren, known as Ivan Drago, has experience in various martial arts, is fluent in six languages, holds a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, and studied at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Fulbright Scholarship.
LISA KUDROW
When Lisa Kudrow played the giddy Phoebe Buffay in Friends, she did a great performance because she managed to play a character quite the opposite of her.
And the fact is that the actress is, unlike the character, quite brilliant. He is reported to have an IQ of 154 points, graduated with a Bachelor of Science from Vassar College. Before turning to acting, she worked with her father, a renowned headache specialist, on a study of hemispheric dominance and headaches.
QUENTIN TARANTINO
As violent and bloody as his films are, few would believe that Quentin Tarantino is a celebrity with an intelligence far above average, as his IQ is 160, the same as that of scientist Stephen Hawking.
Paradoxically, the director never liked school, that’s why he never graduated and, instead of studying, he devoted himself to cinema. What to say for the recognitions, is something that he has managed to do with great skill when achieving cinematographic gems such as Reserve Dogs, Violent Times and Kill Bill.
NATALIE PORTMAN
“I’d rather be smart than a movie star,” Portman once told the New York Post. The truth is that Natalie is both.
The protagonist of Black Swan graduated from Harvard, and is the only student of the renowned university to have won an Oscar. In addition, he studied at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He speaks six languages and, on two occasions, his texts have been published in specialized scientific journals.
JAMES WOODS
James Woods stands out for having an IQ of 184, as he himself said in an episode of Inside the Actors Studio.
Although he dropped out of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was always an outstanding student, scoring perfect on the verbal portion of the SAT, the standardized college entrance exam in the United States.
CINDY CRAWFORD
Before becoming one of the top models in the world, Cindy Crawaford had secured a full scholarship to study Chemical Engineering at Northwestern University.
Nonetheless, he swapped classrooms and chemistry for catwalks and magazine covers, where he has also stood out for nearly 40 years.
CONAN O’BRIEN
That sagacity and ability to do comedy are surely the result of the intelligence that the comedian possesses. In his senior year of high school, the presenter won the National Council of Teachers of English, a writing contest, and graduated top of his class.
To make matters worse, O’Brien finished his studies at Harvard University with Magna Cum Laude and a thesis focused on the use of children as symbols in the works of the writers William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor.
MAYIM BIALIK
In The Big Bang Theory, Bialik played Amy Farrah Fowler, a quirky neurobiologist. However, in real life, the actress has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
With everything and that she was accepted at Harvard and Yale, the actress decided on a university near her home. His work focused on an investigation of the activity of the hypothalamus in patients with Prader-Willi syndrome. Its coefficient is between 150 and 163.
STEVE MARTIN
With an IQ of 142, Steve Martin is a brilliant celebrity. Prior to his Hollywood debut, he earned a Philosophy degree from Cal State University and even considered becoming a professor.
There is no doubt that his intelligence has served him well for acting and, above all, for his opportunity in comedy.
JORDANA BREWSTER
After the success of Fast and Furious, the actress took a break to study English at Yale University, where her grandfather, Kingman Brewster, had been president. Graduated in 2004, her classmates said she was a “brainiac.”
“I was very stressed about getting good grades. I wish I had joined in some sound and had more fun, “he told People magazine.
MATT DAMON
It was during his brief stay at Harvard University that Matt Damon wrote the first version of Indomitable Mind, the film that earned him his first Oscar for Best Screenplay.
Eventually, the actor dropped out of school to focus on his acting career, although a few years ago the Crimson school awarded him the prestigious Harvard Medal of Arts.
SHARON STONE
Low Instincts are what an intelligent person provokes, and Sharon Stone is one of them. When he was 15 years old, he obtained a scholarship to study Writing and Fine Arts at Edinboro University in Pennsylvania.
With an IQ of 154, the actress defines herself as an “ugly and nerdy duckling”. Nerd? Maybe Ugly? Not at all.
SYLVESTER STALLONE
Another action hero that borders on genius, and not precisely because of his punching and kicking but because of the capacity of his brain, is Sylvester Stallone. The protagonist of Rocky and Rambo has, according to various sources, an IQ of 160.
And it is true, action is his thing, but he was also able to create, from scratch, a franchise as successful as Rocky.
SHAKIRA
Her hips don’t lie, and neither does her brain, Shakira is another celebrity who ranks among the smartest. With everything and her howls in “Loba”, or the “Waka Waka”, the Colombian is reported to have an IQ of 140.
He is fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese, as well as French, Italian, Catalan and Arabic. He also has studies in History of Western Civilization from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
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