Talented women use their creative skills and passions in many fields of art, as painters, composers, singers, actors, authors, screenwriters, costume designers, video game coders, producers, directors and more.
Here are a few examples:
Shonda Rhimes is or has been the creator, head writer, executive producer and showrunner of a number of television series including Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, Scandal, and How to Get Away with Murder, among other projects.
She has a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth (1991) and a master of fine arts (MFA) from the University of Southern California’s USC School of Cinematic Arts, where she was ranked at the top of her class and earned the Gary Rosenberg Writing Fellowship.
On her role as a working mother: “If I am succeeding at one, I am inevitably failing at the other. That is the trade-off. That is the Faustian bargain with being a powerful working woman who is also a powerful mother. You never feel one hundred percent okay. You never get your sea-legs. You are always a little nauseous.”
[See more perspectives by other creative women in my post Motherhood and creative work.]
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Elizabeth Banks
She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania.
She attended the Advanced Training Program at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.
Her filmmaking work includes: Producer, Actor, Voice actor, Director.
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Danica McKellar
A profile on her site mckellarmath summarizes:
“A summa cum laude graduate of UCLA with a degree in Mathematics, Danica has been honored in Britain’s esteemed Journal of Physics and the New York Times for her work in mathematics, most notably for her role as co-author of a ground-breaking mathematical physics theorem which bears her name (The Chayes-McKellar-Winn Theorem).”
The site “McKellar Math was born in 2007, a few years after Danica McKellar spoke before a Congressional Committee about why kids in the United States are far behind kids of many other countries in math scores, and why girls especially begin to shy away from math in middle school.”
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Emma Watson enrolled at Oxford University, completed part of her degree, then graduated from Brown University in 2014 with a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature.
Also in 2014 she was “appointed as a UN Women Goodwill ambassador and helped launch the UN Women campaign HeForShe, which encourages all genders to work towards gender equality.” (Wikipedia)
Her IQ is reportedly 138 – at the 99.4 percentile, which means only 0.6 percent of the population has a higher IQ score.
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Natalie Portman was a semifinalist in the Intel Science Talent Search competition in high school [for her investigation into converting waste into clean energy].
She studied neuroscience and psychology at Harvard University, and graduate school at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Is fluent in Hebrew; has studied Japanese, Arabic, French, and German.
“I’m going to college. I don’t care if it ruins my career. I’d rather be smart than a movie star.” Natalie Portman (USA Today, Nov 1994.)
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See much more about Sandra Oh, Mayim Bialik, Claire Danes, Ashley Judd, Aisha Tyler, Cheryl Arutt, Jodie Foster, Joan Chen, Kerry Washington, Erin Cressida Wilson and others – in article:
Some of the Many Gifted and High Ability Women in the Arts
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Douglas Eby (M.A./Psychology) is author of the The Creative Mind series of sites which provide “Information and inspiration to help creative people thrive.”
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