Brainy and Famous! Celebrities With Graduate Degrees

March 7, 2011 • 6:30 am PST
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OK, Natalie Portman doesn't have a graduate degree under her belt yet, but with her award-winning performance as Nina in the film Black Swan, the media spotlight has focused on the actress's brainy side—in high school she was a finalist in the elite Intel Science Talent Search, she went on to earn a psychology degree from Harvard, and she's taken graduate coursework at the Hebrew University of Jerusaleum.

Portman isn't the only celebrity with graduate-level smarts. Here are 13 others—actors, rockers and even a supermodel—who all have master's degrees or Ph.D.s—and we're sure Portman's bound to earn one someday soon.

Liz Dwyer
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