You might best remember her from the movie Basic Instinct, playing the beautiful seductive Catherine Tramell. You might have heard her on the television during one of her speeches in UNICEF about the Tanzania malaria breakout. But Stone here is not just a pretty face. She sure has something between her ears.

Although she flunked in High School (she was a rebel back then), surely she proved everybody wrong when her IQ turned out to be 154. From humble beginnings, she started working for a McDonald’s food chain. Her career began as a model in 1970 and got her acting debut 10 years after in a Woody Allen movie.

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