Kate Beckinsale Reveals Her ‘Very High’ IQ, How It Affected Her Career

Kate Beckinsale shares her high IQ score on “The Howard Stern Show.”

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Her mother, Judy Loe, had her IQ tested when she was very young.

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Beckinsale has an IQ score of 152 — which is considered as genius levels.

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Beckinsale studied Russian Literature in Oxford, and she’s fluent in Russian.

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Beckinsale said that her high IQ felt like a “handicap.”

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She looks for humor when it comes to dating men.

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Beckinsale shared about her painful leg injury on "The Late Late Show with James Corden."

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She said it happened while she was filming “Prisoner's Daughter” in Nevada.

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Beckinsale couldn’t sit or stand, and had an ambulance take her to the hospital.

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