the following celebrities are multi-taskers to the extreme. they earn big bucks, cook, clean, switch mating partners every nanosecond, get their face splashed across tabloids, rock the stage, drive fast cars AND earn their degrees. who said smart cookies are boring?

  • Brian May, guitarist for the rock band Queen: brian may

he recently earned his PhD in astrophysics from London’s Imperial College, handing in his thesis, “Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud.” He’s written a book called Bang! The Complete History of the Universe. May is also an active blogger, with a page on his official website called Brian’s Soapbox.

  • Natalie Portman, actress:

Portman graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, and pursued graduate studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She appeared as a guest lecturer at a Columbia University course in terrorism and counterterrorism, where she spoke about her film V for Vendetta. In addition to being bilingual in Hebrew and English, Portman has studied French, Japanese, German and Arabic. Her 1998 high school paper on the “Enzymatic Production of Hydrogen” was entered in the Intel Science Talent Search. In 2002, she contributed to a study on memory called “Frontal Lobe Activation During Object Permanence” during her psychology studies at Harvard.

  • Sacha Baron Cohen aka. Ali G and Borat

Before Ali G and Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen studied history at Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he wrote his thesis on the role of Jews in the American civil rights movement. Before breaking into the fake-interviewer business, he worked for investment powerhouses JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs.

  • Rowan Atkinson, aka. Mr Bean

he studied electrical engineering at Newcastle University. He continued with an Master’s Degree in Engineering at The Queen’s College, Oxford University. he was quoted as saying, ” I love engineering, but once i handed in my thesis, i knew i was never going to make any use of it.”

  • Rivers Cuomo, frontman, Weezer

Rivers Cuomo earned his bachelor’s degree in English Literature at Harvard University and reportedly a spot in the prestigious academic honor society, Phi Beta Kappa. he has also attended the prestigious Berklee School of Music and Santa Monica College.

  • Jodie Foster, actress

She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Yale University with a degree in literature. She will receive an honorary doctor of arts degree at the University Of Pennsylvania.

  • Greg Graffin, frontman, Bad Religion

Greg Graffin formed Bad Religion with a few high school classmates when he was 15. He is credited with helping rejuvenate the Los Angeles punk scene in the mid-1980s. And when he’s not touring, he’s a professor of life science at UCLA. Graffin earned a PhD in biology from Cornell. His thesis was titled “Monism, Atheism and the Naturalist Worldview: Perspectives from Evolutionary Biology.”

  • Adam Sandler, actor

 The comedian whose memorable work include Anger Management and The Wedding Singer has a degree in fine arts from New York University.

  • Wentworth Miller, actor

He grew up in a strict academic environment with his father working as a Lawyer Educator and his mother as a Special Education Teacher. he attended the prestigious Princeton University where he would perform with the a cappella group, The Princeton Tigertones. Wentworth received his degree in English Literature in 1995.

after all that is said and done, i hope the lazy bum in you is suitably embarassed.