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Beauties With Big Brains

topsocialite.com — It's easy to forget, but not every hot female celebrity is a braindead skanked out media whore like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan. Here are ten gorgeous female celebrities who actually excelled academically and have something going for them apart from their good looks.

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  • 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..."
    • scabbers, on 10/10/2007, -9/+8She has the smart part.......
    • psg188, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15DeKalb? I went to DeKalb!
      (oh wait, no one cares -__- )
    • MadScientist420, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5She never got the degree though. She was our only hope for a hot CHE...
      • 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.
    • 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:
    • davin510, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Speaking of Cindy...

      http://thesuperficial.com/2007/07/cindy_crawford_sunbathes_tople.php [NSFW]
    • 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"
  • BertBert, on 10/10/2007, -28/+5Jodie Foster is a lesbian
  • tucsonsun13, on 10/10/2007, -31/+8This site acts like degrees in Music, English, Government and Hebrew are hardcore accomplishments. Show me a sl**ty girl who has COMPLETED a graduate degree in chemistry, engineering or other hard science. Show me a girl who can do an MRI, draw diagrams on AUTOCAD or take fluorescense lifetime images of the brain and I'll be impressed.
    • 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.
    • stauken, on 10/10/2007, -9/+8You're ***** ignorant, not to mention that you censored a word that isn't even technically vulgar.. Good job. I'm not even sure there is a woman that qualifies as a lower life form than you, and you should be impressed by the act of breathing. Sexist *****.
    • 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.
      • bovester, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Rutgers, the place for smart sluts.
      • feshmania, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2there's a joke that 1 in 3 people at Rutgers has an STD...does it surprise anyone they accepted a porn star?
        • bovester, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yeah, Herpes Simplex R is still a common problem, as seniors keep ***** freshmen
    • 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?
      • rationalist, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Yes. Not everyone in the world is motivated primarily by money nor measures their success by the size of their salary.

        Of course, finishing a degree is not the point for an academic, learning is, but I'm sure that is just too foreign a concept for you to absorb.

        (Not to mention the fact that most aspiring actors/models starve, and some folks with college degrees go on to make absurd amounts of money as entrepreneurs or investors, so, even based on your distorted premise, your comment doesn't make sense.)
    • 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.
    • gharding, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4So you have degrees in all those that you put down? Otherwise, how in the HELL can you even begin to compare them? And come on, I know 14-year-olds that can use CAD.
    • mikesty, 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.
    • 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.

    • jgzman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Speaking five languages is no small feat.
  • jayjaykay, on 10/10/2007, -1/+47looks at the brains on that chick!
  • thcobbs, on 10/10/2007, -4/+13See, I thought this was going to be about Women with big "brains".... big, beautiful..... "brains"
  • 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.
    • stupergenius, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3diggs != traffic
      you == idiot
    • 8teve, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Apparently you're not smart enough to spell properly either.

      And what about Mira Sorvino?
  • TheAnomaly, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Down already.
  • cpaetyler, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Me Diggs Natalie!
  • kpwells, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22Dugg for "braindead skanked out media whore" :)
  • brewman9, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3already down. mirror anyone?
  • kushed, on 10/10/2007, -10/+2WOWies (yes i said wowies), they got a piece of paper labeled as a B.S. (Bull *****) degree in some crap. I think the only one there with actual thinking power is Sharon Stone.
  • metalgem3, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1ill get a mirror
    • mjl5629, on 10/10/2007, -6/+7ok, I'm going to do my laundry. Then I am going to go to the gas station next door and get a Gatorade because I think I am dehydrated. After that I am going to go on a bike ride. Hopefully later on I will drink a margarita.
    • 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.
  • TehNuge, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I really want to see this =(
  • didoubleg, on 10/10/2007, -6/+14who cares about brains, you can't squeeze brains can ya, didn't think about that were ya!
    • 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.
      • didoubleg, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3theres an insult in there somewhere, give me time....i'll find it
    • mattmcm, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3You can if you slice the top of the skull off, but that might be going too far.
  • ChuckAndBob, on 10/10/2007, -9/+6I prefer beauties with big boobs.
  • downlowfunk, on 10/10/2007, -13/+4Since when has academia been a measure of Intelligence. As far as I'm concerned it is a measure of obedience. Obedient Hotties are a good thing so dug neutral.
    Down With the System!!!
    • sgtbutterscotch, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6In this day it would be rebellious for a celebrity to go to and stay in school.
  • bgfinkel, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2mirror?
  • bennyfreshness, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1where's a tut for finding mirrors? anybody know?
  • DaveV, 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.
  • DaneArden, on 10/10/2007, -8/+3"Since when has academia been a measure of Intelligence"
    Its not, it is a measure of how much BS and hoop jumping you can do. Any one who doesn't think this is important wears a paper hat.
    • downlowfunk, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Well I would imagine a big brain wouldn't put up with the B/S. It / they would instead choose the simplest way to avoid such pitfalls
      • DaneArden, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19 out of ten times a genius with out a college degree works for a moron with one. I have noticed the ultra successful ( Gates, Walton) don't have degrees but they are Very rare
        • Koldkompress, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1And Richard Branson. He skipped school to go around houses with big bags of clothes pegs, and sold them individually. And then founded a successful student newspaper when he was 16
  • slicky803, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2How about Asia Carrera?
    Sure, Mensa is an elitist wankfest, but still, she's in it!
  • mrgeo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Down already : But coral cache got some of it, no pics though: http://www.topsocialite.com.nyud.net:8080/beauties-with-big-brains/
  • Subterfug, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2Mirror
    http://www.topsocialite.com.nyud.net:8080/beauties-with-big-brains/
    • Subterfug, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4And I'd put Kate Beckinsale at #1. She was smoking hot in Underworld.
  • DRGinLBC, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6I didn't know Rashida Jones from The Office was Quincy Jones' daughter?!?!?
    • bubba9999, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1She was in an episode of the Dave Chappelle show too - she was the girl he had sign a sex contract with. She looked nice in her negligee.
  • kai05yang, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1http://duggmirror.com
    • indraneel24, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1why would you post that without checking. *****.
  • 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.”
  • glensvodka, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Who on Earth is still digging this when it doesn't even load?
    • ahawks, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3People who plan to come back and look at it when it's back up.
  • Speciou5, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I'm not really impressed that these girls have big brains.
    I'm more impressed that they've actually done something with their lives instead of just being born well.
    • luckykpolice, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.
      -Thoreau
  • 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:
  • KevenM, on 10/10/2007, -3/+0Show your support for DIGG allowing MORE MIRRORS: http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Show_your_support_for_Digg_Effect_Mirrors
  • sonaboy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Phhttt - no Winnie Cooper? (Danika McKellar) - she actually has a mathematical proof and patent to show for it.
  • ViciousDotOrg, on 10/10/2007, -5/+1It looks like it's just head shots but here's a REALLY SLOW mirror

    http://www.topsocialite.com.nyud.net:8080/beauties-with-big-brains/

    and the list of names:

    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:
  • skyshock1, on 10/10/2007, -5/+0I'd screw their brains out.
  • brucemanly, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1http://www.topsocialite.com.nyud.net:8080/beauties-with-big-brains/
  • alpinweiss88, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0Not sure if she is on the list or not since it is down, but Elisabeth Shue is absolutely in my "top 10" for every reason. Leaving Las Vegas, the Trigger Effect, The Saint (where she plays a brain), and Palmetto. oof And of course, the Karate Kid. I believe she went to Harvard.
    • alpinweiss88, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0OK, so someone posted the list while I was typing... at least I have good taste. :)
  • twodayslate, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Mirror
  • caliyankee, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Screw intelligence. I'll take huge tracks of land over brains any day.
    • AgarwaenUmarth, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Buried for being a shallow horny *****.
      • diggerphelps, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Buried for not knowing the difference between "tracks" and "tracts."
    • dodus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"She's got YUGE...TRACTS O LAND..."
  • legom, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Similar list: http://digg.com/celebrity/Hotties_with_High_IQ_s
  • kidjay, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1those confusing academics with brains, pull your head out of your asses.
  • 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.
  • oneclickaway, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Wow - girls can get degrees now? dug!
  • sdason, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3Having an arts degree from an ivy league = brains?

    dot dot dot

    Try again.
  • fantom88, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Natalie Portman has an Erdős–Bacon number of 9. That is hot.
  • 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.
  • BeardDob, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0AHHHH ... yet another Digg article where I read the title and think "who the hell cares".
  • dkforeva, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0any better mirrors?
  • Wacer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Another website down. Mirrors suck as well. Reading articles is turning into a chore instead of fun.
  • iamafatguy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Dugg just for the "Ass to Ass" quote.

    /Aronofsky ftw.
  • rmeddy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2No Winnie from the Wonder Years? ***** list.
  • HanSolo69, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Since when did Phantom Menace launch Natalie Portman's career? She's be a stellar actress since she was like 12. The Professional anyone?
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