Even though Gail Kim stands at 5'4 and only weighs 120lbs, she's one of the toughest and hard-hitting wrestlers of her time. While she's willing to rsik her body with Running Dropkicks and top rope aerial acts, she's a submission specialist utilizing unique moves like the Ringpost Figure Four, Diamondback's Leglock, and her patented Queen of Spades maneuver. Kim is one of those all-atround complete wrestlers that has undeniable talent and ring presence. Her finishing moves in the Happy Ending and Eat Defeat have won her over eighty matches.
After wrestling in the North American independent circuit, Gail Kim joined the WWE in 2002 where she won the WWE Women's Championship in her debut match making her the only woman to do so. Kim bounced back and forth from the WWE and TNA where she won the TNA Knockouts Championship (7x), the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship (1x), the Queen of the Knockouts tournament in 2013, and TNA World Cup in 2015. In 2018, Kim retired from in-ring action and currently works as a producer for TNA where she was also inducted in the Hall of Fame.
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.