To be the film stars or famous celebrities you don’t need high qualification such as master, degree or PhD. In entertainment industry basically, what you need are talent, self-confident, motivation, passion etc.. These celebrities seem to prove the adage that brains and beauty do go together, often in the most unusual combinations.
Most celebrity fans are more interested to know what’s their star lifestyles, activities and hot gossip without knowing their education background. Surprisingly some of the hot and sexy female’s celebrity got high education level. So, don’t think their only depends on pretty face and sexy body without knowing their got smart brains too. Here is the short list of hot Hollywood actresses who got higher education level.
Top 10 Best Educated Hollywood Actresses:
10. Brooke Shields
At the age of 54 Brooke Shields still looks attractive and teasing. Brooke Shileds remembered as controversial actress in Blue lagoon film as she was 14 years old at that time. Sorry, we are not to discuss about the controversial issue. The long-time model and actress earned a Bachelor’s Degree in French Literature at Princeton in 1987, and the title of her senior thesis was, “The Initiation: From Innocence to Experience: The Pre-Adolescent/Adolescent Journey in the Films of Louis Malle, Pretty Baby, and Lacombe Lucien.”
9. Lucy Liu
Lucy was born in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York, the United States on December 2, 1968. She is well known for playing the role of the vicious and ill-mannered Ling Woo in the television series Ally McBeal. She attended Stuyvesant High School before graduated from the University of Michigan with the Bachelor’s degree in Chinese Language and Culture.
8. Gabrielle Union
Union was born on 1972 in Omaha, Nebraska. Her breakthrough role was in the 2000 film Bring It on as Isis. She was the first African–American actor or actress to appear on NBC’s hit situation comedy Friends in 2001. Graduated from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1996. She earned bachelor’s degree in sociology.
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7. Rooney Mara
Actress and philanthropist Rooney Mara is another best educated actresses in Hollywood. She was born on April 17, 1985 in Bedford, New York. Mara graduated from Bedford’s Fox Lane High School in 2003 and enrolled in the Traveling School, visiting Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru over the course of four months to study. She then attended George Washington University for one year before moving to New York University to study psychology and non-profits.
6. Gemma Chan
Gamma Chan play a role as Minn-Erva in new released superhero film Captain Marvel 2019. She is British actress. Born in London (1983) and raised in Kent. The Crazy Rich Asians star graduated with a law degree from Oxford University in 2004 and Allure reports after graduation the gorgeous Gamma Chan was offered a job with a leading law firm in London, but turned it down to pursue an acting career.
5. Lisa Kudrow
Better known as Phoebe in the long time running hit television show F.R.I.E.N.D.S. The American actress was born in Encino, California on July 30, 1963. In her tenure, throughout her career, she has received 10 Emmy Award nominations, 12 Screen Actors Guild nominations and a Golden Globe Award nomination. She won the 1998 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Kudrow attended Portola Middle School in Tarzana, CA. She then went on to graduate from Taft High School in Los Angeles. After high school, she went to Vassar College, where she earned her Bachelor of Sciences in Biology in 1985.
4. Teri Hatcher
Teri Lynn Hatcher was born on December 8, 1964 in Palo Alto, California. Perhaps best known for her role as Lois Lane in hit tv series The New Adventure Of Superman and as Susan Mayer in Desperate Housewives. She earned degree in Mathematics and Engineering from De Anza College in Cupertino. The actress was the daughter of a Nuclear Physicist and Electrical Engineer and maybe it’s inspired her. She’s one of the most educated Hollywood actresses in the world.
3. Emma Watson
Emma Watson is third most educated Hollywood actresses. The beautiful English actress was born on April 15, 1990, in Paris, France, but raised in England. Watson best known for playing the character of Hermione Granger, one of Harry Potter’s best friends in the ‘Harry Potter’ film franchise. In May 2017, Watson was the first person to win the MTV Movie and TV Award’s first gender-neutral award for Best Actor in Movie. Besides the glamorous lives Emma Watson still maintaining her commitment to her education. She studied at Brown University and Worcester College, Oxford and completed her education with a bachelor’s degree in English literature.
2. Natalie Portman
Born in 1981, Jerusalem, Portman is the second most educated Hollywood actresses. The Star Wars prequel trilogy actress synonym with character Queen of Naboo, Queen Padme Amidala possessed dual Israeli and American citizenship. Natalie Portman went to college once she was already famous, in order to pursue other interests alongside her screen careers. Portman was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won a Golden Globe Award for playing a mysterious stripper in the romantic drama Closer. She graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Psychology in 2003. At Harvard, Portman was Alan Dershowitz’s research assistant. Also, she was a guest lecturer at a Columbia University course in terrorism and counterterrorism.
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1. Eva Longoria
The popular tv series Desperate Housewife’s stars was born in Texas, 1975. She’s better known by character Gabriella Solls. The show earned her a Golden Globe nomination and a spot among TV’s best-paid performing artist. Rather than the exhausted housewife she depicted, Longoria is definitely more than only a beautiful face. She studied at Texas A&M University – Kingsville, where she got a degree in kinesiology (the study of the mechanics of body movement). She proceeded her studies at California State University, where she got her master’s degree in Chicano studies. Her thesis tended to the absent of decent variety in STEM vocations.
Eva Longoria has been named by several publications, including Time en Español and People magazines as “one of Hollywood’s most beautiful women“.
