Dolph Lundgren

Lundgren earned a master's degree in chemical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to MIT before a chance meeting redirected him toward acting and bodybuilding instead.

The Swedish action star at his strangest played a cyborg street-preacher assassin with a shepherd's staff and a messiah complex. His academic background remains an unusually cerebral credential for an action star largely known for playing imposing, taciturn tough guys.

This role remains one of the more deliberately bizarre entries in his otherwise straightforward action filmography, and he has continued a long career in genre action films since.