Celebs you didn't know were very intelligent

Big shock all around when it turned out that Paris Hilton not only had she put on a different voice for her reality show The Simple Life (her real voice is actually much lower), but also that that silly character of hers was just an act. Yes indeed: Paris Hilton has brains and they actually work. Well, that was quite a shock for everyone. But she is not the only one in Hollywood. There are even ex-Harvard students among the big A-listers, and you wouldn't expect it from many seriously. Check the list below: these celebs have a particularly high IQ.

1. Ashton Kutcher
Beauty and the brains then, even though he kind of messed it up for himself in his teenage years. He was accepted at MIT and Purdue to study engineering, but lost his scholarship that would pay for it because he — as a joke — broke into his high school. Goodbye scholarships and goodbye MIT and Purdue. That's why he decided to go to the University of Iowa, but dropped out at 19 to give his modeling career a chance. And the rest is history.

2. Cindy Crawford
Supermodel Cindy Crawford was already a hard worker back in the day. She was valedictorian of her high school, in addition to already having a modeling contract. She then planned to go to Northwestern University to study chemical engineering. At the last moment, she decided that she would rather give her modeling career a chance, and that has turned out quite well.

3. Nolan Gould
The silly one from the Dunphy family from Modern Family. A character that couldn't be further from his real self: Nolan Gould is actually smart. As in: intensely smart. As in: he is a member of Mensa and has an IQ of 150. At thirteen, he was already watching university-level courses. Besides his role in the series, of course, which is also just a full-time job.

4. Emma Watson
The character of Hermione is actually not that far from Emma Watson herself. After finishing all the films, she studied at Oxford University and Brown University. Not the least indeed. I think she has somewhat put her acting career on hold to focus more on women's rights.

5. Ken Jeong
Right, the man who uttered lines like ‘so looooong, gayboys’ in The Hangover films, but before he was an actor, he was in a completely different field. He is actually a doctor and studied at Duke University. During the day, he worked in the hospital and in the evenings, he did as many stand-up performances as possible to hopefully break through.

6. Lisa Kudrow
Is it just a thing that only smart people can play silly characters well? Because Lisa Kudrow is nothing like Phoebe Buffay. She graduated in biology and then worked for a company that researched different types and causes of headaches. She only did that for six months because then she decided that her passion really lay in acting.

7. Matt Damon
This man simply studied at Harvard University, stopped to act, and was still rewarded by them. Huh? He wrote the script for Good Will Hunting while he was a student there, as an assignment in his playwriting class. That was quite a hit, he saw that immediately. When the film was finished, he was awarded a Harvard Arts Medal because he didn't finish that study.

8. Mayim Bialek
Sheldon’s girlfriend from The Big Bang Theory is the only one from the cast who has a bit in common with her on-screen persona. In real life, she also has a PhD in neuroscience. Fun fact: she obtained that PhD in 2007, while she was already acting in The Big Bang Theory. Her thesis was about OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) in elderly people with Prader-Willi syndrome. Just so you know.

9. Natalie Portman
Once again a case of beauty and the brains, because this actress obtained her bachelor's degree at Harvard. By the way, she became the first Harvard alumna to take an Oscar home. Additionally, she speaks no less than six languages, also studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and has published multiple times in scientific journals.

Source: BusinessInsider