The Brightest Stars
1 - Higher Intelligence
The archetypal blonde bombshell,
Jayne Mansfield may have been famous for her body, but she also made a mark on
Hollywood with her brains. Here, to celebrate what would have been her 84th
birthday, are 22 stars—starting with Mansfield—reported to have extraordinarily
high IQs
Jayne Mansfield may have been famous for her body, but she also made a mark on
Hollywood with her brains. Here, to celebrate what would have been her 84th
birthday, are 22 stars—starting with Mansfield—reported to have extraordinarily
high IQs
2 - Jayne Mansfield — IQ: 149
Handle" lived up to that movie title in 1963 when she appeared in a
Playboy feature so racy that it got editor Hugh Hefner arrested for obscenity.
In fact, she had a genius for publicity—and we mean that literally.
3 - Steve Martin — IQ: 142
accomplished banjo player, the credited inventor of air quotes and one of the
funniest people on the planet—he's also a genius. With an IQ of 142, he
considered becoming a professor while studying at Cal State, but instead opted
for a career that gave him the freedom to wear an arrow through his head. Smart
choice. Literally.
acclaimed actresses of any generation wasn't enough, the "Devil Wears
Prada" star has an IQ of 143. Somehow all that intelligence didn't prevent
her from agreeing to take a role in Robert Redford's "Lions for
Lambs." Hey, even geniuses have off days. We still love her.
Roof
1949 blockbuster "Samson and Delilah" was promoted as "the
world's most beautiful woman" during MGM's Golden Age. She was also
brilliant. Born in Vienna, Hedy Lamarr invented (with composer George Antheil)
a "frequency hopping" system originally aimed at preventing Nazis
from jamming radio-controlled torpedoes during World War II. Her invention was
a key to the development of today's cordless phone technology.
After all, Conan is a Harvard grad, accomplished comedy writer and all-around
nerdy-looking dude. His IQ is reportedly 160, which is the same as Stephen
Hawking's. But it must be noted that the famous physicist never made millions
off of a m-------ting bear character. So who's the real genius now, Mr.
Hawking?
you say "Beetlejuice" three times, but apparently saying
"genius" over and over again makes it a reality. Geena Davis is
fluent in Swedish, plays a multitude of instruments and belongs to Mensa, which
only admits members with an IQ at or above the 98th percentile. So do the
math—or let Geena do it.
blonde act you remember from "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" fool
you. Goldie Hawn is another card-carrying member of Mensa.
known for brawn rather than brains, but the Oscar-winning actor and
screenwriter ranks among the smartest guys in Hollywood, with a reported IQ of
160. Yo, Adrian! Writing dialogue that pithy is harder than it looks.
'80s and '90s, but Cindy Crawford is hardly superficial. With an IQ of 154, she
was the valedictorian of her high school class and briefly studied chemical
engineering at Northwestern before opting for a full-time modeling career.
Still stunning at 51, Crawford last year became a spokesman for the Italian
beverage company Acqua Minerale San Benedetto.
Baseball Hall of Fame in 1993 because of his five world championships, 14
All-Star appearances, 563 home runs and .357 batting average in the month of
October (hence his nickname, Mr. October). But these stats don't tell the whole
story. With a reported IQ of 160, Reggie Jackson may be the smartest athlete
ever to swing a bat.
maintained that, thanks to her genius-level IQ, she belonged to Mensa. Then, in
2002, the Oscar-winning actress admitted that the latter was not true. Still,
the fact that she started college at the age of 15 is certainly impressive.
Unless she made up that story, too.
David Duchovny is one of the brightest actors of the last few decades. But
ducking out from "The X-Files" after Season 7 proved to be a dumb
move—his career tanked shortly thereafter. Luckily for Duchovny (and the rest
of us), special agent Fox Mulder returned to glory last year in an
"X-Files" reboot. Believe.
role of dim-witted and incredibly naive Phoebe Buffay on the wildly popular
television series "Friends"? An IQ of 154 coupled with a degree in
psychobiology from Vassar College. Turns out you've got to be pretty damn smart
to play dumb.
Tarantino has a reported IQ of 160, and his groundbreaking movie "Pulp
Fiction" reflects that. But no one would call him an intellectual snob.
"I don't believe in elitism," Tarantino once said. "I don't
think the audience is this dumb person, lower than me. I am the audience."
her high school valedictorian (at age 16!) and briefly attended Columbia
University before dropping out to pursue music full-time. Her IQ is supposedly
154, but given her accomplishments to date, we think it might be even higher.
the ginormous Swede from "Rocky IV" as the smartest guy in the room.
But in most rooms, that would be the case. Dolph Lundgren has a master's degree
in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney and won a Fulbright
scholarship to MIT. Not only will he break you, he'll break down your chemical
elements and tell you exactly what you're made of.
12-year-old prostitute in "Taxi Driver" was always precocious. She
was was talking at nine months and taught herself to read by the age of three.
After becoming bilingual at the Lycée Francais, she took a break from Hollywood
to study literature at Yale, where she graduated magna cum laude.
co-wrote and starred in "Good Will Hunting," about an undiscovered
math prodigy who cleans up around an Ivy League school. Well, maybe that role
wasn't such a stretch for Matt Damon, a genius with an IQ of 160 who dropped
out of Harvard to become one of the most bankable actors in show business
today.
often associated with brainy and highly evolved people, so it's no surprise
that Nicole Kidman's IQ rings in at 132. Further proof of her intelligence:
When she divorced Tom Cruise, she told the court she didn't want her children
raised in the Church of Scientology.
Tommy Lee Jones is no slouch. And his roommate at Harvard was Al Gore, who,
although he did not "invent the Internet," did win a Nobel Prize for
raising awareness of global climate change. Is it too late for the Gore-Jones
ticket to emerge? We might actually vote.
is some kind of artistic genius who helped reshape pop culture throughout the
'80s, '90s and into the new millennium. And her IQ has been reported to land
around the 140 mark. Still, when people ask "What's her number?"
that's not usually what they're referring to.
James Woods' IQ is a staggering 184. Wanna know who told us this? James Woods.
Hmmm. Well, he was accepted by MIT.
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