Did You Know: Kate Beckinsale Has A Crazy High IQ
Celebrities: they’re just like us. Or, if they are British actor and model Kate Beckinsale, they are actually much, much smarter than us. Beckinsale revealed in a recent interview with Howard Stern that as a child, her mother had her IQ (that’s Intelligence Quotient for the rest of us) tested. It was high, very high.
Apparently, Kate Beckinsale tested at 152 IQ points. In fact, she actually called up her mother during the interview to confirm and yes, it’s true, she really does have a 152 IQ.
Kate Beckinsale’s IQ Is Higher Than 98% Of You
According to Healthline, 98% of people have an IQ below 130. So… yeah, Kate Beckinsale is pretty gosh darn smart.
The average IQ score usually falls between 85 and 115. A score of 140 or above is usually considered a genius.
Warren Buffet once famously said you need at least an IQ of 130 in order to be truly successful. Kate Beckinsale’s brain apparently performs well beyond that. Elon Musk is believed to have an IQ of around 155. So basically, that means Kate Beckinsale is about as smart as Elon Musk. Where’s her version of the Tesla?
She Wishes She Was 30% Less Smart
Kate Beckinsale went on in her Howard Stern interview to say that she felt her high intelligence had probably negatively impacted her career. She also said that pretty much every highly intelligent person she had ever met wished they were 30% less smart.
In Beckinsale’s case, even making her 30% less smart would mathematically still put her on the high end of average in the IQ scale.
Having a high IQ can’t have hurt Beckinsale’s career all that much. She most recently starred in Jolt, an action comedy with Jai Courtney and Laverne Cox. The movie released to good reviews. She also starred in the Underworld series of vampire films from 2003 to 2016’s most recent installment, Underworld: Blood Wars.
While the future of that particular franchise is up in the air, Kate Beckinsale is apparently not opposed to continuing. Even more intriguing, she told Variety this year that she had at one point been pitching a crossover with Wesley Snipes’ vampire hunter Blade.
Given the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s confirmed plan to reboot Blade with Mahershala Ali, could we see him teaming up with Beckinsale’s longtime character Selene? Probably not, but we can always hope.
In recent years, Kate Beckinsale has become increasingly notable for her skill at social media. In particular, she’s used her modeling skills to maintain her image as a fashion icon, while of course feeding the Internet’s never-ending need for cute cat content.
Through the course of her career, Beckinsale has appeared in all sorts of work. She first came to prominence through British adaptations of classics like Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing and well regarded ITV version of Jane Austen’s Emma. Upon arriving in Hollywood, Kate Beckinsale first starred in indie dramas like The Last Days of Disco and Brokedown Palace before exploding into blockbuster territory with Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor.
Since then, she has starred in essentially every genre and scale of film there is, from romantic comedies like Serendipity, supernatural action like Van Helsing and Underworld and even a Lifetime movie, The Trials of Cate McCall (the ultimate sign of true dramatic range).
Kate Beckinsale may consider her high IQ to have been a bit of a hindrance during her ascendence to stardom, but that might be hard for the rest of us to believe. She is currently starring in Paramount+ streaming drama Guilty Party, playing a disgraced journalist. Whether we’ll get to see her star as any kind of ass-kicking vampire (with Blade or not) ever again is really up to her and her crazy high IQ.
