Next up, is arguably the most respected remale high-fly act in mainstream wrestling, Amy Dumas, better known by her stage name, Lita. When Lita was in the ring, there wasn't anything too daring enough for her to do. Suicide Dive through the ropes and risk hitting the ramp? She didn't care. Diving Twist of Fate off the ropes? Didn't matter to her. Her patented Litasault back flip finisher off of the top turnbuckle was just another night for the woman who helped define one of the greatest eras in wrestling known as the Attitude Era of the WWF/WWE.
Prior to becoming a world-renowned act in the WWE, Dumas got her professional wrestling career started under the moniker Angelica in the Consejo Mundial Lucha Libre (CMLL) organization in 1998. The following year, Lita took her talents to the states in the independent circuit. In 1999, Lita made her way to the Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) where she began to pick up steam for her amazing aerial combat maneuvers. The following year, Lita would enter the WWF/WWE where she would become a 4x WWE Women's Champion and eventually be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame (2014). Throughout the years, she's made sporadic returns to the ring, but she's focused on her music career as the head of her own punk band called The Luchagors.
Most of your favorite celebrities either studied acting in college or went straight from high school into a life of the arts. But, hey, not all of them. Some celebrities actually have advanced college degrees.
Turns out Mayim Bialik is just as much of a genius as the one she plays on The Big Bang Theory. She earned her Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles, focusing on obsessive compulsive disorder among people with Prader-Willi syndrome, a rare condition in which the hypothalamus malfunctions.
Little known fact: Natalie Portman skipped the premiere of Star Wars: Phantom Menace because she was studying for her high school exams. She had two papers published in scientific journals while she was still in high school, and graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Psychology.
Before he was looking for answers on X-Files, David Duchovny was just trying to find the answers for English finals at Princeton University90. David graduated from Princeton in 1982 with a B.A in English. He continued to feed his love of literature by receiving a master’s degree in English Literature at Yale University. David was an excellent writer and poet. His work consistently received praise by his fellow classmates and teachers at Yale. His writing was even nominated for a college prize by the Academy of American Poets.
Sigourney Weaver graduated from Stanford University in 1971 with a bachelor’s in Literature. It was while studying at Stanford that Sigourney realized her true passion in life was to become an actress. Shortly after graduation, she attended Yale for their well-known drama program. She would go on to receive a master’s in Acting from Yale University and become friends with fellow famous actress Meryl Streep.
Meryl Streep is considered one of the most successful actresses of all time. She is also one of the most highly educated. Before collecting an array of Oscars, Meryl collected diplomas. She graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in 1971. Meryl has a habit of being unsatisfied with impressive accomplishments as her acting career has shown, so she attended Yale University and earned a master’s degree in Acting.