Live Poll: Actresses with Academic Degrees

Danica McKellar, former star of The Wonder Years, has a degree in math:  "After that show ended, she went on to graduate Summa cum Laude from UCLA with a degree in Mathematics, and even proved a new math theorem, the Chayes-McKellar-Winn Theorem.:

@GabrielFox  I think it could be a simpler and more accurate statement and question. For your consideration, Some actresses complete a degree program in theater, while others majored in a field of study other than the dramatic arts prior to, parallel to, or after their acting achievements. Which popular actress and their academic degree achievement impresses you more?

I'd probabbly vote for Mayim Bialik.  Also, FYC: Elisabeth Shue graduated from Harvard in 2000 in Political Science

@GabrielFox​, I assume you are still working on this. The answer pool seems a bit light, as I assume there are more than fifteen popular actresses who have gotten college degrees.

FYC: Emma Thompson, English degree, Cambridge, 1980s Rosamund Pike, English degree, Oxford, 2001

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Meryl Streep -- she earned the degree, then she made an incredibly successful career out of it. She didn't already have something to leverage her way into Yale or Harvard to earn a degree after the fact.  Sigourney Weaver was a strong consideration, but... I couldn't remember the start of her career specifically, & there was that Yale credential...(?) The same with Jodie Foster, except Doctor of Fine Arts in 1997... Does Yale offer a Doctorate Program? I don't know & Jodie Foster would be an actress a school would seek out to give an Honorary Doctorate...she would have already been a long established actress; why would she just halt her career to pursue a Doctorate? Maybe she did...(?) And Natalie Portman...also another I considered. But, again, she was already established & her degree credit is from Harvard. The degree isn't quite so much film related, but I can see a connection. Also, being a child actress, it makes me wonder if the Parents couldn't have legally compelled her, whilst a child needing their consent, to continue on with her education on the chances she did not find further success as an actress. Did she earn the degree because she wanted the degree? Or, because she was legally obliged? That I have no idea, but it seems more than reasonable... So, Meryl Streep got my vote; hands down. As for the neuroscientist..., how does that translate into acting? & You can't point to Jeopardy! Because the announcement of her hosting the show received such a degree of disfavor for not instead selecting the much more apt & qualified LeVar Burton, it led to a panic so severe, her co-host was scrutinized & ousted as a racist. When LeVar Burton actually gave his opinion on the matter, he didn't even really have a desire to host the show. It was entirely fueled by uproar from fans, which was eventually quelled by LeVar Burton's remarks & Ken Jennings agreeing to come back & fill the role of co-host. If...& I don't even know her name...? If she had been accepted as the definitive host of Jeopardy! Then there might be something to consider there. Otherwise, how has she applied neuroscience to acting & filmmaking? What has her career even consisted of...? Who is she?! What's her name for God's sake?!   

Wow!! I haven't known about Lisa Kudrow. But I accidentally found out about Mayim Bialik a few months ago (she is my favorite character from The Big Ben Theory). I just got to her Instagram and realized she even has her kinda blog about neuroscience, just the same field as in the sitcom. As a fan, I was pleased! :) Why did I even get here, because I decided to check my assignment. I didn't know that I could find such information on your forum. For one of my homework, I needed a list of famous women (film and entertainment) with academic degrees. On the ResellerRatings website, I found this review https://www.resellerratings.com/store/Edubirdie_com on the Edubirdie service, which turned out to be quite popular (and fast). Therefore, I decided to trust it, and now that I have received the text, I want to read more about these women. Thank you very much for the additional information.