It isn't much you can say to Ember Moon born, Adrienne Reese, who was bullied during her youth for liking wrestling and video games. Reese is living out her childhood dream in front of millions of people week in and week out and those same classmates have to watch her from the couch of their crumby one-bedroom apartments. It also has to suck knowing that she's damn good at what she does too. Ember Moon is known as a risk-taker as well, performing aerial assaults such as the Springboard Dropkick, the Handspring Splash, the Tornado Suplex, and her finisher The Eclipse on a regular basis.
Prior to making her way to the WWE as a mainstay roster member, Reese wrestled under the moniker Athena in the independent circuit. She wrestled for several different leagues including Professional Championship Wrestling (PCW), Anarchy Championship Wrestling (ACW) where she is a 3x ACW American Joshi Champion as well as the Shimmer Women Athletes, Women Superstars Uncensored (WSU), All American Wrestling (AAW), and more. In 2015, Ember Moon made her way to the WWE where she became the NXT Women's Champion and is currently on the Smackdown roster.
Most of your favorite celebrities either studied acting in college or went straight from high school into a life of the arts. But, hey, not all of them. Some celebrities actually have advanced college degrees.
Turns out Mayim Bialik is just as much of a genius as the one she plays on The Big Bang Theory. She earned her Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles, focusing on obsessive compulsive disorder among people with Prader-Willi syndrome, a rare condition in which the hypothalamus malfunctions.
Little known fact: Natalie Portman skipped the premiere of Star Wars: Phantom Menace because she was studying for her high school exams. She had two papers published in scientific journals while she was still in high school, and graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Psychology.
Before he was looking for answers on X-Files, David Duchovny was just trying to find the answers for English finals at Princeton University90. David graduated from Princeton in 1982 with a B.A in English. He continued to feed his love of literature by receiving a master’s degree in English Literature at Yale University. David was an excellent writer and poet. His work consistently received praise by his fellow classmates and teachers at Yale. His writing was even nominated for a college prize by the Academy of American Poets.
Sigourney Weaver graduated from Stanford University in 1971 with a bachelor’s in Literature. It was while studying at Stanford that Sigourney realized her true passion in life was to become an actress. Shortly after graduation, she attended Yale for their well-known drama program. She would go on to receive a master’s in Acting from Yale University and become friends with fellow famous actress Meryl Streep.
Meryl Streep is considered one of the most successful actresses of all time. She is also one of the most highly educated. Before collecting an array of Oscars, Meryl collected diplomas. She graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in 1971. Meryl has a habit of being unsatisfied with impressive accomplishments as her acting career has shown, so she attended Yale University and earned a master’s degree in Acting.