A-list celebrities who were geeks as kids

Asia Carrera — Can you believe that this porn legend, who starred in over 400 films (dang, that’s a lot of fluid swapping), studied piano as a little girl and even played at Carnegie Hall at age 14??? That’s not the half of it. Carrera also taught English classes in Japan at age 16, was a member of the National Spanish Honor Society, the National Mathematics League. She got a scholarship to Rutgers and majored in business and Japanese. That, she says, inspired the moniker Asia.

Zoe Saldana — “For me, it’s been like preaching to my choir, because I was considered what you would think of as a geek. I loved stories that helped me escape, and those happened to be the stories that fall into the category of geekiness. So, therefore, I am a proud geek!”