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- jayjaykay, on 10/10/2007, -1/+47looks at the brains on that chick!
- Chewie67, on 10/10/2007, -8/+37Hello? Cindy Crawford?
From Wikipedia:
"Crawford graduated from DeKalb High School as valedictorian with a 4.0 GPA. She won an academic scholarship to study chemical engineering at Northwestern University..." - Skunkhair, on 10/10/2007, -1/+24Pornstar Asia Carrera: (via wikipedia) She studied piano as a child, and performed at Carnegie Hall twice before the age of 15. By 16 she taught English at Tsuruga College in Japan. She won a full academic scholarship to Rutgers University and is a member of Mensa.
She is an avid player of Unreal Tournament and she has designed her own game skins, and was featured in the show Players on the G4 games cable channel, where she revealed that her screen name is "Megabitchgoddess." Asia hosted her own Unreal Tournament server that featured custom maps designed by fans that frequented her chatroom that she has hosted on her site since 1997. She is also a Corvette aficionado but traded hers in after starting a family. - kpwells, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22Dugg for "braindead skanked out media whore" :)
- Tyr7BE, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20I think you meant to type "slutty". Your keyboard is acting really weird. You might want to check your 'u' and 't' keys.
- Nougat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17Braaaaaiiinnns
- jimmy87lee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15 Beautiful girls are a dime a dozen when it comes to Hollywood, but brains … not so much. You don’t have to look too long at the tabloids in the supermarket checkout lines (or hell watch Fox News or CNN for a few minutes and you’re sure to catch the latest on Paris or Lindsay) to see that most famous actresses and singers didn’t exactly graduate from Harvard.
But there are movie stars out there who actually did graduate from Harvard. And Yale. And Oxford. Some of the hottest actresses out there have resumes that are more impressive than their looks. Here are ten of the hottest smart girls in Hollywood:
10: Emma Thompson
Background: Two time academy award winner (Best Actress for Howard’s End, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Sense and Sensibility), she’s recently been seen in Stranger Than Fiction and in the Harry Potter movie series as Professor Trelawney.
Evidence of brains: Thompson graduated from Cambridge with a major in English literature. Won an academy award for screenwriting.
Why she’s hot: Cute blonde british girl, what’s not to like? Also, has an incredible smile.
Photographic evidence:
9: Rashida Jones
Background: Best known as Karen Filippelli on The Office. Also made appearances on Boston Public and Freaks and Geeks. Daughter of media mogul Quincy Jones.
Evidence of brains: Jones is multi-talented, having taken piano lessons from the age of five. Graduated from Harvard in 1997 after studying religion and philosophy.
Why she’s hot: Jim’s rebound girl after getting denied by Pam, which has to count for something.
Photographic evidence:
8: Alicia Keys
Background: Keys has won nine Grammy’s, eleven Billboard Music Awards, and three American Music Awards. She’s sold roughly 20 million records in her career so far.
Evidence of brains: Despite growing up in Hell’s Kitchen, Keys graduated from the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan at the age of sixteen as Valedictorian. She had a scholarship to Columbia University, but decided to pursue her musical career. Fairly smart decision there.
Why she’s hot: All about the braids and that hair. Plus there’s just something hot about a girl banging away at a piano.
Photographic evidence:
7: Jennifer Beals
Background: Beals has been around damn near forever, first coming to the scene in 1983’s Flashdance. Currently stars on Showtime’s The L Word, where she plays Bette Porter, an Ivy League Educated lesbian.
Evidence of brains: Graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in English lit.
Why she’s hot: I’m repeating myself, but come on: Currently stars on Showtime’s The L Word, where she plays Bette Porter, an Ivy League Educated lesbian.
Photographic evidence:
6: Kate Beckinsale
Background: Has starred in numerous big box office blockbusters such as Pearl Harbor, Click, and Underworld.
Evidence of brains: Won multiple W. H. Smith Young Writers competitions in her teens, studied foreign language and literature at Oxford.
Why she’s hot: Always showing up on lists of hottest women (best showing #16 in Maxim’s Hot 100 in 2003, also named England’s #1 Beauty by HELLO! magazine in 2002.
Photographic evidence:
5: Sharon Stone
Background: One of the most famous actresses in the world, appearing in one of the most famous scenes in movie history.
Evidence of brains: Actually flunked out of high school as a rebellious teenager, but there’s a good chance that was due to boredom. Stone’s IQ has been tested at 154.
Why she’s hot: She helped make it cool to leave the underwear at home.
Photographic evidence:
4. Jodie Foster
Background: Broke out in 1976 with her role in Taxi Driver. Has won two Best Actress Oscar’s for her roles in The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs.
Evidence of brains: Possibly the most brilliant actress alive, Foster graduated Valedictorian from a French speaking prep school in LA before heading off to Yale where she graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in literature. Is actually intelligent enough to keep her personal life out of the press.
Why she’s hot: Pretty much the embodiment of the word “cute”. And there’s nothing wrong with a strong woman: she took on Hannibal Lector and did pretty well for herself.
Photographic evidence:
3. Jennifer Connelly
Background: Won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her work in A Beautiful Mind. Has a history of picking roles in intelligent films.
Evidence of brains: Went to Yale and studied English, but eventually transferred to Stanford where she finished her Bachelor’s. Speaks three languages fluently (French and Italian).
Why she’s hot: Start at the incredible eyes and head south. Plus, you know, you have to respect a girl willing to go ass to ass. Ahem.
Photographic evidence:
2. Natalie Portman
Background: Career was launched with her role in The Phantom Menace, but she was actually working years before that with roles in movies such as Heat and Mars Attacks!.
Evidence of Brains: Graduated from Harvard University in 2003 with a bachelor’s in psychology, and has pursued grad studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Speaks five languages.
Why she’s hot: She’s been every geek’s fantasy for eight years now, and it’s pretty easy to see why.
Photographic evidence:
1. Elizabeth Shue
Background: Was an 80’s hottie in films such as The Karate Kid, Adventures in Babysiting, and Back to the Future, but she showed that she’d grown up in the film Leaving Las Vegas, portraying a prostitute mixed up with a suicidal alcoholic.
Evidence of Brains: Attended Wellesley College and Harvard University, but withdrew to pursue her acting career. Went back and finished fifteen years later, graduating from Harvard with a degree in government.
Why she’s hot: Any child of the 80’s could tell you that Shue is the ultimate girl next door.
Photographic evidence: - smeliot, on 10/10/2007, -5/+19PAM > KAREN
- psg188, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15DeKalb? I went to DeKalb!
(oh wait, no one cares -__- ) - thcobbs, on 10/10/2007, -4/+18All women are.... if you get them drunk enough.
- sonaboy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Phhttt - no Winnie Cooper? (Danika McKellar) - she actually has a mathematical proof and patent to show for it.
- thcobbs, on 10/10/2007, -4/+13See, I thought this was going to be about Women with big "brains".... big, beautiful..... "brains"
- didoubleg, on 10/10/2007, -6/+14who cares about brains, you can't squeeze brains can ya, didn't think about that were ya!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+12No Danica McKellar, No Digg. Not a single one of them is published, but Danica is. And, she is definitely hot.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Holy wall of text Batman!
- rationalist, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Geena Davis is a member of Mensa who nearly qualified for the US Olympic Archery team, speaks several languages fluently, plays several instruments (well), is a talented singer, a social activist, and had a modeling career before, of course, becoming an Academy-Award-winning actress.
Mira Sorvino graduated from Harvard magna-cum-laude in East Asian Studies (she is fluent in Mandarin and speaks French), founded one of Havard-Radcliffe's premier a cappella groups, is active with Amnesty International
Teri Hatcher, daughter of a nuclear physicist and a computer programmer, studied math and engineering and planned to transfer to Cal Tech before her acting career took off.
There are, of course, many, many others, much as this seems to surprise the sexist, among them:
Reese Witherspoon, Aishwarya Rai, Kate Beckinsdale (who won a prestigious young writer's award as a teenager - twice), Aisha Tyler, Famke Janssen, Joy Bryant, just to name a few.
And, of course, before my time, but Heddy Lamar was granted a patent for frequency hopping which formed the basis for modern communications technology including the cell phone.
And that's just looking at movie actors. - Alathea, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7No Hedy Lamarr, for her shared patent for Frequency hopping? Not only the first woman to go nude on film, but smart too.
Famous quote: “Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.” - brewman9, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8what's the point then?
- joerodriguez, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7hold on wait! i have to go to the grocery store to pick up some BANANAS then i can meet you at the ocean state job lot to get that mirror for 5 bucks.
- Morca007, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9Apparantly none of them work there, otherwise they'd be smart enough to have a server that won't go down after 60 diggs.
- Cougaboy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5So you want a girl who has completed the two-year course in medical imaging or has taken a class or two in drafting? And just so you know, a graduate degree in chemistry or engineering is no more prestigious than a graduate degree in any other subject.
- DRGinLBC, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6I didn't know Rashida Jones from The Office was Quincy Jones' daughter?!?!?
- sgtbutterscotch, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6In this day it would be rebellious for a celebrity to go to and stay in school.
- dyslexicsUNTIED, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6"didn't think about that were ya!"...i guess there is not too much to squeeze there either, oh well.
- MadScientist420, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5She never got the degree though. She was our only hope for a hot CHE...
- princessangry, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Just because you go to college and get a degree doesn't mean you're smart. I know alot of college graduates that are dumbasses in life. And literature is just a class people take that they had no idea what to select for their courses, so they just took that because it was popular and is "sophisticated". Plus mommy and daddy paid for the good colleges. So they pick what mommy and daddy would like and impress them.
- thrallie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Since when do you have to have a masters to be smart? Many people didn't even finish college and went on to start amazing things, and they are smart.
- PresidentSoup, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Can you honestly say you would turn down an acting/modeling career promising much more money in order to finish a degree and make less?
- TheAnomaly, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Down already.
- HalfBrian, on 10/10/2007, -4/+8Sorry for hijacking
10: Emma Thompson
Background: Two time academy award winner (Best Actress for Howard’s End, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Sense and Sensibility), she’s recently been seen in Stranger Than Fiction and in the Harry Potter movie series as Professor Trelawney.
Evidence of brains: Thompson graduated from Cambridge with a major in English literature. Won an academy award for screenwriting.
Why she’s hot: Cute blonde british girl, what’s not to like? Also, has an incredible smile.
Photographic evidence:
9: Rashida Jones
Background: Best known as Karen Filippelli on The Office. Also made appearances on Boston Public and Freaks and Geeks. Daughter of media mogul Quincy Jones.
Evidence of brains: Jones is multi-talented, having taken piano lessons from the age of five. Graduated from Harvard in 1997 after studying religion and philosophy.
Why she’s hot: Jim’s rebound girl after getting denied by Pam, which has to count for something.
Photographic evidence:
8: Alicia Keys
Background: Keys has won nine Grammy’s, eleven Billboard Music Awards, and three American Music Awards. She’s sold roughly 20 million records in her career so far.
Evidence of brains: Despite growing up in Hell’s Kitchen, Keys graduated from the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan at the age of sixteen as Valedictorian. She had a scholarship to Columbia University, but decided to pursue her musical career. Fairly smart decision there.
Why she’s hot: All about the braids and that hair. Plus there’s just something hot about a girl banging away at a piano.
Photographic evidence:
7: Jennifer Beals
Background: Beals has been around damn near forever, first coming to the scene in 1983’s Flashdance. Currently stars on Showtime’s The L Word, where she plays Bette Porter, an Ivy League Educated lesbian.
Evidence of brains: Graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in English lit.
Why she’s hot: I’m repeating myself, but come on: Currently stars on Showtime’s The L Word, where she plays Bette Porter, an Ivy League Educated lesbian.
Photographic evidence:
6: Kate Beckinsale
Background: Has starred in numerous big box office blockbusters such as Pearl Harbor, Click, and Underworld.
Evidence of brains: Won multiple W. H. Smith Young Writers competitions in her teens, studied foreign language and literature at Oxford.
Why she’s hot: Always showing up on lists of hottest women (best showing #16 in Maxim’s Hot 100 in 2003, also named England’s #1 Beauty by HELLO! magazine in 2002.
Photographic evidence:
5: Sharon Stone
Background: One of the most famous actresses in the world, appearing in one of the most famous scenes in movie history.
Evidence of brains: Actually flunked out of high school as a rebellious teenager, but there’s a good chance that was due to boredom. Stone’s IQ has been tested at 154.
Why she’s hot: She helped make it cool to leave the underwear at home.
Photographic evidence:
4. Jodie Foster
Background: Broke out in 1976 with her role in Taxi Driver. Has won two Best Actress Oscar’s for her roles in The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs.
Evidence of brains: Possibly the most brilliant actress alive, Foster graduated Valedictorian from a French speaking prep school in LA before heading off to Yale where she graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in literature. Is actually intelligent enough to keep her personal life out of the press.
Why she’s hot: Pretty much the embodiment of the word “cute”. And there’s nothing wrong with a strong woman: she took on Hannibal Lector and did pretty well for herself.
Photographic evidence:
3. Jennifer Connelly
Background: Won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her work in A Beautiful Mind. Has a history of picking roles in intelligent films.
Evidence of brains: Went to Yale and studied English, but eventually transferred to Stanford where she finished her Bachelor’s. Speaks three languages fluently (French and Italian).
Why she’s hot: Start at the incredible eyes and head south. Plus, you know, you have to respect a girl willing to go ass to ass. Ahem.
Photographic evidence:
2. Natalie Portman
Background: Career was launched with her role in The Phantom Menace, but she was actually working years before that with roles in movies such as Heat and Mars Attacks!.
Evidence of Brains: Graduated from Harvard University in 2003 with a bachelor’s in psychology, and has pursued grad studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Speaks five languages.
Why she’s hot: She’s been every geek’s fantasy for eight years now, and it’s pretty easy to see why.
Photographic evidence:
1. Elizabeth Shue
Background: Was an 80’s hottie in films such as The Karate Kid, Adventures in Babysiting, and Back to the Future, but she showed that she’d grown up in the film Leaving Las Vegas, portraying a prostitute mixed up with a suicidal alcoholic.
Evidence of Brains: Attended Wellesley College and Harvard University, but withdrew to pursue her acting career. Went back and finished fifteen years later, graduating from Harvard with a degree in government.
Why she’s hot: Any child of the 80’s could tell you that Shue is the ultimate girl next door.
Photographic evidence: - Shaunt, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4no way.
- Subterfug, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4And I'd put Kate Beckinsale at #1. She was smoking hot in Underworld.
- swordedge, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Danica McKeller, Winnie from the Wonder Years. BS Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude. She has a mathematical proof with her name on it.
- dacheetah, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s-Bacon_number
The Erdős–Bacon number is the sum of both numbers. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3What an incredibly dumb thing to say. There are plenty of babes that can draw stuff in CAD. Cut me a break.
- stupergenius, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3diggs != traffic
you == idiot - Kyouto, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/and-stay-out.jpg
- sanman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2On Sharon Stone:
"Evidence of brains: Actually flunked out of high school as a rebellious teenager, but there’s a good chance that was due to boredom."
Uhh, yeah, I'm sure a lot of Diggers console themselves with that excuse. "I'm brilliant, 'coz I flunked out" - feshmania, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2my school (Rowan University) graduated a couple of hot chemies. They exist, but no doubt they're probably few and extremely far between.
- pagemaster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2they all have degrees in psychology and english literature......if that is what some people consider as smart then this nation really is as dumb as the world thinks
- iamafatguy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Dugg just for the "Ass to Ass" quote.
/Aronofsky ftw. - mattmcm, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3You can if you slice the top of the skull off, but that might be going too far.
- brewman9, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2horribly inappropriate
- bovester, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yeah, Herpes Simplex R is still a common problem, as seniors keep ***** freshmen
- stupergenius, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Pretty sure any rich idiot can graduate from Yale/Harvard/etc. with an english lit degree. The president of the US for example, though I'm not sure what his major was.
- Cwo655321, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3*uc* my ****s
- ahawks, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3People who plan to come back and look at it when it's back up.
- Davede70, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You should go to a therapist extremely quickly.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2No Winnie from the Wonder Years? ***** list.
- fantom88, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Natalie Portman has an Erdős–Bacon number of 9. That is hot.
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