He’s who first came to mind. When I found out that this tall, ripped, good looking guy was also a braniac, I couldn’t decide if that made me love him or hate him. Lucky bastard.
Hedy Lamarr invented the vibrating butt plug???
Tony, I think that was just a little too much personal detail about what you expect to be in your pockets that might be oscillating rapidly.
The things you learn on the Dope!
Elizabeth Berkeley
No, Hedley Lamarr invented the vibrating butt plug, but it’s a common mistake.
These aren’t my pants.
I’ve heard rumours that Jennifer Tilly is surprisingly smart - I have no proof for this, though.
But Mom always liked Meg better.
Ashton Kutcher is reported to be a genius.
Cindy Crawford. She had done some modeling as a teenager but didn’t expect to make a career out of it. She won an academic scholarship to college and was studying to be an engineer when she started getting serious modeling offers. She basically decided the money was too good to ignore so she dropped out of college.
I’ve read that the cast of Friends jointly agreed to have Kudrow represent all of them because they felt she was the most business savvy.
David Duchovny, on the other hand, has a legitimate academic background. He has a BA from Princeton and a MA from Yale and was working on his PhD when his acting career took off.
Brooke Shields went to Princeton. (fairly sure she actually graduated)
Ron Jeremy (aka Ron Hyatt) has a master’s degree in Special Education and worked as a teacher before starting his career in adult movies.
You can probably add the short blond guy of the Penn and Teller duo to that - he’s reported to be the brains of the duo, although in their act it’s jsut the opposit
I think Jim Varney qualifies.
KnoWhutImean, Vern?
William Smith, an actor most famous for playing bikers and gangsters,
I once read an article about the X-files that gave the impression that, in real life, David Duchovny is the skeptic, and Gillian Anderson is into woo.
Since LeBlanc started doing pub for Episodes I’ve seen him interviewed a lot and he seems pretty savvy (much like his character “Matt LeBlanc”). As someone pointed out below, I think the consensus among the cast was that Kudrow was the brightest, though I’ve always had the impression Schwimmer disagreed with that.
Keanu Reeves…Not a total airhead, but just a guy. He’s kind of sensitive on the issue, though.
I’ve always been impressed with Stallone and Schwarzenegger’s brains and business savvy. In my 20s, I’d worked myself up to Ahnold’s off-season size, so I know how people are when someone with muscles is also brainy (it never got old, btw).
The pro wrestler known as George “The Animal” Steele was not only dumb, he could only speak about 5 words of English to include “Break” and “Backlund.”
In real life he was a high school teacher and has a masters degree.
Erland van Lidthe de Jeude, best known for playing Grossberger, the huge bald geek that Richard Pryoy and Gene Wilder got stuvck in a cell with in Stir Crazy, and who played “Terror”, the leader of the Fordham Baldies in Phili Kaufman’s film The Wanderers, played big, mean, and apparently dumb criminal types in his movies, but he had a master’s from MIT. I know – i appeared in two stage musicals with him as an undergrad. In Stir Crazy you can even (if you look) see him wearing his Brass Rat, the MIT class ring.
Little Erland wasn’t bald – they made him shave his head for the Kaufman film, where he played the leader of a gang of shaved-head baddies in the 1950s (based on a real gang), but subsequent directors liked the look, and he’s bald in a;ll his movies. I’ve seen him in the dressing room – ironically, his head is about the only place on his body he had hair.
he could also sing with an unbelievably powerful voice. But he didn’t get to use it onscreen. That’s not him singing in * Stir Crazy – I know his voice. He ran afoul of some union thing (he wasn’t a member). He finally did a chance to sing in The Running Man (his last movie , released after his untimely death), but it’s hard to hear over all the explosions.