11 Sexy Celebrity Dorks To Ogle This Geek Pride Day

Because May 25th is all about those nerds…

Monday, May 25, 2015 - 06:30

Geek Pride Day sweeps the globe on May 25th and in celebration we’ve hunted down the hottest celebrity clever clogs for your viewing pleasure. From PhD student James Franco, to Harvard’s own Natalie Portman, you might be surprised by what these famous faces have achieved off-screen.

11 Sexy Celebrity Dorks To Ogle This Geek Pride Day

1. Ashton Kutcher believes “smart is sexy” and who are we to argue with his abs and love of tech start-ups?

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2. Natalie Portman skipped the premiere of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace to study for her final exams and ended up getting into Harvard.

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3. Cindy Crawford was her high school valedictorian and went to Northwestern University to study chemical engineering.

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4. James Franco isn’t just an actor and gossip magazine staple: he’s also a PhD student at Yale, having taken on no less than six graduate programs in the past.

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5. Emma Watson played one of our most-loved geeks of all time, Hermione Granger, and in real life she graduated from Brown University with a degree in English Literature.

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6. Iman was questioned by husband David Bowie for Interview magazine in 1994 and told him, "I was a very nerdy child. I never fit in, so I became laboriously studious."

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7. Lisa Kudrow played it goofy on Friends, but in real life she’s more geeky, with a Biology degree from Vassar College in New York.

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8. Tyra Banks might be best known for her looks, but the America’s Next Top Model host has been called out as a secret geek, for following NASA, The Discovery Channel and National Geographic on Twitter.

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9. Colin Firth knows how to make us laugh, telling one interviewer, “I’m just, like, a f**king nerd who works all the time.”

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10. We all loved Reese Witherspoon as ditzy Elle Woods in Legally Blonde, but as a teen she attended Stanford University, as an English Literature major.

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11. Fight Club star Edward Norton graduated from Yale with a degree in History. Brains and brawn? Wow.

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11 Sexy Celebrity Dorks To Ogle This Geek Pride Day

11 Sexy Celebrity Dorks To Ogle This Geek Pride Day

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