Actor/Actress with the Most Impeccable "Nerd" Credentials (1 Viewer)

Haven't sifted through them all yet, but Jeff Goldblum has a lot of credits in sci-fi and horror. Not all that many starring vehicles for him, though. But besides his Jurassic Park franchise work:

Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Buckaroo Bonzai
Transylvania 6-5000
The Fly
Earth Girls are Easy
Powder
Independence Day
(and the sequel)
Thor: Ragnarok
It's not every day that a three-year-old post gets a bunch of new likes :)
 

I don't know if anyone picked Pedro Pascal in this thread, but if you did, good on you. The dude is rapidly rising in the ranks of high profile nerd fiction. He's left a large mark on Star Wars, has appeared in DC, was in Game of Thrones, and is about to star in what I'm sure will be a massive post apocalyptic hit, Last of Us.

He's also pretty cool in We Can Be Heroes - it's a kids/tweens flick made by Robert Rodriguez. My kids love it and I have seen it about five times. When we watched The Mandalorian, they recognized him when he took the mask off. I was proud.



They also love Rodriguez's other movies, the Spy Kids franchise and Sharkboy and Lavagirl - I have seen them all.
 
No love for Christopher Lloyd? Check his IMDB creds - sci-fi and fantasy up the wazoo.
 
I'm not sure if you guys noticed this, but Giancarlo Esposito is making a late-career run at this. He's been in several Batman vehicles, and recently has a large role in the Boys and in the Mandalorian.
He’s also playing the main villain in the upcoming Far Cry 6 game
 
Once you start doing Asimov you can be in contention (based on how prolific Asimov was)...

Jared Harris:
Foundation, The Expanse, Fringe, Morbius

Lee Pace:
Foundation, GotG, The Hobbit,
 
She first came to mind when I read the title of this thread. How many other Hollywood actors have a science PhD ? Unfortunately she's also an a anti-vaxxer nutjob so gets marked down.

But then I read the thread which redefined "nerd cred" as "being in comic book/sci fi/fantasy movies", which by that standard she has zero unless you count The Big Bang Theory.
My first thought was Hedy Lamarr but Bialik works for that as well.
 
Rosario Dawson has quietly injected herself into this discussion. She's now pretty substantially connected to Star Wars, Marvel, and DC. If she can find her way into a LOTR show or Star Trek vehicle, she'd be a contender. And as the OP, I feel it is my right and duty to award extra points for her being all sorts of naked in her movies.
 

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