“very high IQ” may have “handicapped” her Hollywood career. Beckinsale — who speaks fluent Russian— revealed in an interview with Howard Stern earlier this week that she has an IQ of 152 — a ‘highly gifted’ score that places her in the top 1% of the population.
When asked whether her intellect had been an advantage, she replied: “Every single doctor, every single person I’ve ever come across has said, ‘You’d be so much happier if you were 30 percent less smart.’ It’s no good to me, though.
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