History Main / HollywoodNerd

** And Sammy. Ruby even tells him that he's "pretty buff for a nerd."

* Quinn in ''{{Zoey 101}}''.

* [[http://ca.jezebel.com/5786058/why-do-movies-hate-nerd-love?skyline=true&s=i This article]] is a highly critical look at the trope (specifically, it asks why {{Hollywood Nerd}}s never end up paired with ''each other'' rather than the jock / [[AlphaBitch popular girl]] of the day.

** Danica McKellar (Winnie Cooper from TheWonderYears) graduated from UCLA ''summa cum laude'' with a degree in Mathematics and has an Erdos number (if you need to ask, you're not nerdy enough) of 4.

** TinaFey, if she's to be taken on saying Liz Lemon in 30 Rock is her AuthorAvatar
** While not a nerd, DavidDuchovny allegedly has an IQ of around 150. He holds a BA in English Literature from Princeton and a Masters in the same from Yale and played a season of junior varsity basketball.

** RosarioDawson has written a comic book, and speaks [[Franchise/StarTrek Klingon!]]

* Fox Mulder on ''Series/{{The X-Files}}'' is a prime example. Look at the catastrophe that is his private life, his vast collection of porn videos, the fact that he sleeps on the sofa since his bedroom is filled ceiling-high with old junk in cardboard boxes, the scenes in which he is shown throwing pencils at the ceiling in his office to see if they stick, the fact that he happily spends his free time hunting for space aliens, or his habit of expounding at length his wild theories about aliens or monsters from folklore in front of total strangers until they think he's crazy. Scully is routinely getting exasperated with him. (Scully, on the other hand, while very attractive and smart, is a scientist, ''not'' a nerd.) And yet Mulder is tall, fit and attractive, to the extent that in the episode ''Humbug'' one of the circus [[{{Geek}} "geeks"]] (the scrawny one who hammered nails up his nose and ate glass) sarcastically remarked how one day all the freaks like him and the tattooed Enigma would be done away with by science and society and everyone would be "perfect" and boring like Mulder.
** Being an active FBI agent he would presumably be required to occasionally pass some physical fitness tests. And anyway Mulder was less a nerd and more just plain a weirdo. Indeed, Mulder is one of the few TV characters shown practising the kind of physical training which might lead to a physique like the actor's; he is seen swimming laps in a pool, jogging and playing basketball in the gym.
** Mulder's trio of {{sidekick}}s, a team of tech-geeks and conspiracy theorists calling themselves ''TheLoneGunmen'', are far less attractive and very bad with women.
** Although she's just intelligent and not a nerd, Scully is an interesting example. GillianAnderson was chosen to play her because she could rattle off long sentences full of scientific jargon. The Fox network wanted a tall blonde, but they got a 5'3" redhead. In the show's early days, however, the consensus hadn't been reached as to her attractiveness. Some viewers didn't find her attractive; some damned her with faint praise; some she was attractive, but not conventionally; some said she appealed to smart people; amongst all those opinions, some found her an unqualified beauty. However, as Anderson's popularity increased along with the show's, her image started gracing magazine covers and websites; the media decided she was attractive (which is not to say she wasn't already), and you know what happens then.

* [[Series/AustinAndAlly Ally Dawson,]] portrayed by Laura Marano.
** [[http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/279256/ppuser/47 Especially]] during the [[http://austinally.wikia.com/wiki/File:Sexy.jpg second season.]]

** [[http://austinally.wikia.com/wiki/File:Sexy.jpg Especially during the second season.]]

** Unfortunately for nerds everywhere, we get stereotyped as Type 1, and when we're Type 2, people think we're too "good" to nerds - just look at the comments about "too good for their role" in the Type 2 section.

* On ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' Clark Kent, the future Superman, and of course, the nerdy everyman who kept his virginity until he was out of high school, and folded into an awkward mess when a hot cheerleader was throwing herself at him. And he's played by an underwear model. Yeah... Its not so much that Clark's a nerd persay, in fact he's shown to be baffled by real-nerd behavior, he's just socially awkward due to having to keep the secret that he's got super powers and is a Super Space Jesus.

** VinDiesel. An action star who has played DungeonsAndDragons for over 20 years. He even had a tattoo of his D&D character's name on his stomach in the movie ''{{Film/xXx}}''.

* Fox Mulder on ''Series/{{The X-Files}}'' is a prime example. Look at the catastrophe that is his private life, his vast collection of porn videos, the fact that he sleeps on the sofa since his bedroom is filled ceiling-high with old junk in cardboard boxes, the scenes in which he is shown throwing pencils at the ceiling in his office to see if they stick, the fact that he happily spends his free time hunting for space aliens, or his habit of expounding at length his wild theories about aliens or monsters from folklore in front of total strangers until they think he's crazy. Scully is routinely getting exasperated with him. (Scully, on the other hand, while very attractive and smart, is a scientist, NOT a nerd.) And yet Mulder is tall, fit and attractive, to the extent that in the episode ''Humbug'' one of the circus [[{{Geek}} "geeks"]] (the scrawny one who hammered nails up his nose and ate glass) sarcastically remarked how one day all the freaks like him and the tattooed Enigma would be done away with by science and society and everyone would be "perfect" and boring like Mulder.
** Being an active FBI agent he would presumably be required to occasionally pass some physical fitness tests. And anyway Mulder was less a nerd and more just plain a weirdo. Indeed, Mulder is one of the few TV characters shown practicing the kind of physical training which might lead to a physique like the actor's; he is seen swimming laps in a pool, jogging and playing basketball in the gym.

* The absolutely gorgeous engineer Trip on ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''.
** Hoshi Sato would be an appropriate example.

** This troper thinks it's at least as bad to assume nerds are Type 1 in reality as it is for Hollywood to stereotype. RealityIsUnrealistic.

* In ''NeverBeenKissed'', we're really supposed to believe that the description given in the title applies to DrewBarrymore.

* This was sent-up in ''NotAnotherTeenMovie'' in which the jocks discuss who the target of the makeover should be. After highlighting some obvious freaks, they come upon the heroine. The lead jock expresses his disgust by pointing out the girl's ''ponytail'' and ''glasses''! And she had ''paint on her jeans''! Not even jeans! ''Overalls!''
* The ''Pygmalion'' / ''MyFairLady'' remake known as ''She's All That'', in which the unpopular bookworm is played by Rachel Leigh Cook.

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* SandraBullock's character in ''TheNet''.

* In ''RisingSun'', Tia Carrere plays a video footage analyst who helps Sean Connery and Wesley Snipe's cop characters analyse doctored surveillance footage. They just have a pair of glasses slapped onto her, her hair done up and some techno-babble dialogue to help make her seem nerdy.

* On ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' Clark Kent, he future Superman, and of course, the nerdy everyman who kept his virginity until he was out of high school, and folded into an awkward mess when a hot cheerleader was throwing herself at him. And he's played by an underwear model. Yeah... Its not so much that Clark's a nerd persay, in fact he's shown to be baffled by real-nerd behaviour, he's just socially awkward due to having to keep the secret that he's got super powers and is a Super Space Jesus.
** Chloe, who while for the first four seasons she's constantly playing the part of the nerdy sidekick and best friend, she ends up being a massive subversion. In the first few seasons, she has no trouble getting male attention, with two different Meteor Freaks, Pete Ross, and Jimmy Olsen all finding her attractive, but her main problem is that [[StubbornMule her]] [[InterpridReporter attitude]] is rather off-putting to those who don't know her well. The Prom episode, however, reveals that most of the student body actually rather like Chloe, but a resident, though not-previously seen, AlphaBitch (Smallville High has a lot of them, they all jut seem to be off-camera for most of it then end up dying or turning evil) picked up a strong dislike of Chloe and uses her rumor mill to keep people from befriending her, which also explains why her friends are stuck as outcasts too. Clark himself lampshades this by telling Chloe that "For years we've all been fighting to break out of the stereotypical roles that we've been forced into...and you're the battle cry."

* Hakkai from ''{{Saiyuki}}''.

** VinDiesel. An action star who has played DungeonsAndDragons for over 20 years. He even had a tattoo of his D&D character's name on his stomach in the movie ''Film/xXx''.

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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Uryuu is the top academic performer in his year group, the joint best sewer (with Orihime) in the Handicraft's Club, and also very much the class loner. Until he develops an incurable case of FireForgedFriends with Ichigo, whereupon he attempts to nurture an AloofAlly image that utterly fails since everyone knows he and Ichigo are really VitriolicBestBuds. This is completely averted with his father, Ryuuken, however, who is not only intelligent enough to keep up with the story's acknowledge genius, Urahara, but was also the school heartthrob when he was a teenager.

* Yui and Chiriko from ''FushigiYuugi'' are both bigtime bookworms. But they're both adorable-looking (... [[ViewerGenderConfusion poor Chiriko]]). Yui even had long hair once upon a time, but cut it short because the boys just kept coming her way.
* Uryu from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''.

* Felicity Smoak in ''Arrow'', played by Emily Bett Rickards