Everett Collection

MOST MEMORABLE MOVIE ROLE(S): The slimy team doctor in On Any Given Sunday; a creepy H.R. Haldeman in Nixon, and the gangster “Max” Berkowicz in Once Upon a Time in America

THE INTEL: A gifted student who grew up in Rhode Island, Woods was accepted into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he majored in political science. Woods never graduated, leaving MIT to pursue an acting career (reportedly influenced by a local-theater stage manager named Tim Affleck, the father of Ben Affleck).

CELEBRITY-BRAINIAC RATING, ON A “1” (SNOOKI) to “10” (COLLEGE PROFESSOR) SCALE: 7

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