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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2011 16:19:38 GMT -4
My favourite star-you-wouldn't-peg-as-a-scholar is Dolph Lundgren: He has a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983, but he quit after two weeks to pursue acting.
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Post by divasahm on Feb 16, 2011 17:03:58 GMT -4
Has anyone mentioned Cindy Crawford yet? She was discovered at age 16 by a newspaper photographer and signed with the Elite agency out of Chicago while earning straight As in high school. She graduated valedictorian of her high school class and earned a full scholarship to study chemical engineering to Northwestern University, but only attended one quarter before deciding to pursue the modeling career.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2011 17:43:49 GMT -4
My favourite star-you-wouldn't-peg-as-a-scholar is Dolph Lundgren: He has a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983, but he quit after two weeks to pursue acting. Yeah, this one always makes my eyes bulge out every time I see someone mention it. Partly because he was going for chemical engineering, partly because it was MIT, partly because he got a Fulbright scholarship, and partly because he gave it all up to act opposite Sylvester Stallone. |
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Post by sueli on Feb 16, 2011 22:52:18 GMT -4
My favourite star-you-wouldn't-peg-as-a-scholar is Dolph Lundgren: He has a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983, but he quit after two weeks to pursue acting. Yeah, this one always makes my eyes bulge out every time I see someone mention it. Partly because he was going for chemical engineering, partly because it was MIT, partly because he got a Fulbright scholarship, and partly because he gave it all up to act opposite Sylvester Stallone. Don't forget training in kickboxing and karate and hanging out with Grace Jones [which is training of some kind all by itself]. |
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Post by Atreides on Feb 18, 2011 22:09:25 GMT -4
Laura Linney graduated from Brown University with a BA in Drama and then graduated from Juilliard in Drama in 1990. I have to admire someone who clearly wanted to be an actor from such a young age and studied and learned as much as they could in that field. She also gave the commencement speech to Juiliard a couple years ago and you can really feel the love she has for the school in her speech.
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Post by twopfan on Feb 19, 2011 16:48:52 GMT -4
Laura Linney is one of my favorite actresses! I would love to have coffee with her.
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Post by Mutagen on Feb 19, 2011 17:25:30 GMT -4
Oh yeah! Dolph Lundgren!! That is one of my favorite factoids to use to blow people's minds in real life. I also really liked seeing Dolph on I Love the 80s, talking about Ivan Drago - he seemed to have a sense of humor about it. "Yeah, Ivan was a juicer!"
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Post by Mouse on Feb 21, 2011 10:56:27 GMT -4
Eh, I can't fault Dolph for going into acting. He did it because he thought it was fun--and it's probably much more fun than chemical engineering.
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Post by bklynred on Feb 21, 2011 17:35:34 GMT -4
Sorry if I'm repeating someone, but Angela Basset, David Alan Grier, Jennifer Beals and Ed Norton are all Yalies as well.
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