Mayim Bialik | 163
If you’ve watched the ’90s NBC sitcom Blossom, then you might be familiar with this actress. Mayim Bialik played the title character of the show. Aside from Blossom, she also starred in another sitcom, The Big Bang Theory, and portrayed the neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler. Did you know that she is also a neurobiologist off-screen in real life? Bialik earned her B.S. degree in Neuroscience from UCLA. In 2007, she returned to UCLA to pursue her Ph.D.
The actress has also been awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Boston University in 2014. Due to her love for acting, she set aside science. Now, she focuses on her Hollywood career and has an upcoming TV show entitled Call Me Kat, as well as a film called As Sick as They Made Us. She also co-founded a vegan restaurant in Los Angeles.