Who are the most academically educated actors?
1. Ken Jeong - most famous for roles in The Hangover
Wiki: He completed his undergraduate studies at Duke University in 1990 and attained his medical degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1995. He then completed his Internal Medicineresidency at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans while developing his stand-up comedy.
2. Dolph Lundgren - most famous for role in Rocky IV
Wiki: Lundgren has a Masters in Chemical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and the University of Sydney and was on his way to MIT with a Fulbright scholarship when he got sidetracked by the whole Hollywood thing
3. Stephen Fry - got famous for A Bit of Fry and Laurie
Wiki: At 17, after leaving Norfolk College of Arts and Technology, Fry absconded with a credit card stolen from a family friend, was arrested in Swindon, and, as a result, spent three months in Pucklechurch Prison on remand.[12] Following his release, he resumed his education at City College Norwich, promising administrators that he would study rigorously to sit the Cambridge entrance exams. He scored well enough to gain a scholarship to Queens' College, Cambridge. At Cambridge, Fry joined the Cambridge Footlights, appeared onUniversity Challenge, and gained a degree in English literature.[13] At the Footlights Fry met his future comedy collaborator Hugh Laurie.
Wiki: He attended elementary school at The Mirman School and graduated high school from Harvard-Westlake School in 1992. After he graduated, he worked on the 1992 Summer Olympics as an English, Spanish, and Japanese translator. He graduated from Brown University in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and mathematics. Oka landed his first job after graduation at Industrial Light & Magic doing digital effects before later switching to acting.
5. Natalie Portman - recently know for The Black Swan and V for Vendeta
Wiki: As a student, Portman co-authored two research papers that were published in scientific journals. Her 1998 high school paper, "A Simple Method to Demonstrate the Enzymatic Production of Hydrogen from Sugar", co-authored with scientists Ian Hurley and Jonathan Woodward, was entered in the Intel Science Talent Search. In 2002, she contributed to a study on memory called "Frontal Lobe Activation during Object Permanence: Data from Near-Infrared Spectroscopy" during her psychology studies at Harvard. This publication placed Portman among a very small number of professional actors with a defined Erdős–Bacon number."
SPECIAL AWARD: James Franco with his latest Oz The Great and Powerful for his academic parents and relentless personal pursue for art and multiple academia degrees
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