Maybe Peter Weller is more like Buckaroo Banzai:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.02/posts.html
I had read about him working on his PhD a while back.
You know the actor Avery Brooks (Hawk on Spencer for Hire in the 80's and Captain Sisko on DS9) is a tenured professor of fine arts at Rutgers.
Know of any other educated actors?
I really enjoyed the Engineering an Empire series, though I though Buckaroo, er, Peter was under used.
Jodie Foster did graduate from Yale & Brooke Shields from Princeton, so I'd put them a notch above the typical Hollywood actor.
Weller is a jazz trumpet player, too.
QuoteKnow of any other educated actors?
Doesn't Jill St. John have an IQ of like 180? (doesn't quite fit her character in DAF, Eh?)
I had seen him on the Rome: Engineering an Empire show on the History Channel. Haven't seen the series, no cable, and wasn't aware of his continued involvement. Guess he has a good presence on camera as an experienced performer as well as the academic credentials now. Glad to know he's still acting as well, the last thing I remember him in was as the captain in that TV remake of The Posiedon Adventure.
Knew about his jazz horn playing, he and Jeff Goldblum were in a combo together.
Other higher educated perfomers, off the top of of my head: Billy Connolly's wife Pamela Stephenson has a doctorate in clincial psychology, is an adjunct professor at the California Graduate Institute where she got her docorate from, and is also in private practice.