MOST MEMORABLE MOVIE ROLE(S): The “young” Bette Midler in Beaches
THE INTEL: The teenage star of Blossom (and current frequent guest on The Big Bang Theory) earned the grades in high school to get accepted to Harvard and Yale — she ultimately chose to attend UCLA. She spent more than a few years at the sunny campus, eventually earning a Ph.D. in neuroscience, in which she studied obsessive-compulsive disorders in adolescents with Prader-Willi syndrome.
CELEBRITY-BRAINIAC RATING, ON A “1” (SNOOKI) to “10” (COLLEGE PROFESSOR) SCALE: 9