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* Donald Faison's (of ''[[Clueless]]'' and ''[[Scrubs]]'' fame) admitted to seeing [[Star Wars|The Empire Strikes Back]] over 300 times, and has apparently been working on his Dr. Evazan impression. He was mentioned in the [[VH-1]] special "undateable" by one of his girlfriends as to partake in long, multihour [[Dungeons & Dragons|D&D]] sessions
* Vin Diesel once related a story about how, during the filming of ''[[Riddick|The Chronicles of Riddick]]'', he and Karl Urban (both D&D fanatics) were discussing games, when out of the blue Judi Dench came along and started a conversation about the campaign she regularly GMs for her grandchildren. Turns out the [[Cool Old Lady|old broad]] was as much a D&D geek as the two guys were. And let's face it: A campaign narrated by '''[[Incredibly Lame Pun|D]]'''[[Incredibly Lame Pun|a]]'''[[Incredibly Lame Pun|m]]'''[[Incredibly Lame Pun|e]] Judi Dench would be ''awesome''.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120528043643/http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4616592653905673144 The "I Am A Gamer" keynote speech at the 2007 Penny Arcade Expo, courtesy of Wil Wheaton]. There's a reason he's known as King of the Nerds. Wheaton is such a geek icon and so proud of it that he has redeemed himself in the eyes of nerds even though he was [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|the original]] [[Creator's Pet|Wesley.]] He openly admits that when he [https://web.archive.org/web/20110427160201/http://www.tvsquad.com/bloggers/wil-wheaton
* [[Seth Green]] has a huge collection of action figures and has written a few comic books. Said collection was featured in the "White and Nerdy" video, if I recall correctly. He also turned his love of action figures [[Robot Chicken|into a popular TV show.]]
* [[Joss Whedon]] is pretty geeky, as are almost too many of his characters to list.
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