1. In The Graduate, Elaine Robinson is a Berkeley student.

2. Both female leads in the psychological thriller Basic Instinct received Berkeley degrees. Dr. Beth Garner, the serial killer, earned her Ph.D. in psychology, while Catherine Tramell, the chief suspect, received a B.A. in psychology.

3. In the film Mona Lisa Smile, Julia Roberts plays an idealist art history professor.

4. Sandy Cohen from The O.C. is an idealistic public defender who graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law. His wife, Kirsten Cohen, also has a Berkeley degree in art history.

5. Dr. Christina Yang, the driven and ambitious surgeon played by Sandra Oh, on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy got her Ph.D. in chemistry from Berkeley before attending Stanford Medical School.

6. Doonesbury’s wayward feminist comic character Joanie Caucus left work at a daycare center to attend Boalt Hall in the 1970s. After graduation she became a political activist.

7. Press Secretary and later Presidential Chief of Staff C.J. Cregg, on the long-running The West Wing, got her master’s degree in political science from Berkeley. This connection sometimes causes her White House colleagues to question her political backbone.

8. In the film Boys and Girls, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Claire Forlani both play Berkeley students. Extras are actual Berkeley students. The 2000 film was shot was classes were in session.

9. Steven Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can is loosely based on the real character of Frank Abagnale Jr. who faked getting his Berkeley law degree to impress his fiancé’s father. His exploits as con artist, however, are exaggerated in the movie.

10. The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and nearby facilities hosted the set The Hulk, directed by Ang Lee, who cast Eric Bana and Jennifer Connelly as Berkeley researchers.

11. Jack Bauer, the lead in the television hit drama 24, earned his Masters of Science in Criminology and Law at Berkeley (the university has not offered such a degree in decades).

12. In the hit film Field of Dreams, the lead character Ray Kinsella, who is mysteriously persuaded to convert his Iowa cornfield into a baseball diamond, is a Berkeley grad.

13. The Wedding Planner, Matthew McConaughey’s character and Bridgette Wilson’s character claim to have met as students at Berkeley.

14. In USA Network’s TV series Monk, the title character, Adrian Monk, is a phobia-ridden, private detective who graduated from Berkeley.

15. In the television hit Third Rock from the Sun, character Dick Solomon’s love interest, anthropology Professor Mary Albright, studied at Berkeley.

16. Sydney Bristow, the brilliant, double-agent spy character played by Jennifer Garner in the ABC television series Alias, is a Berkeley graduate.

17. In CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, forensics specialist Sara Sidle received her masters degree from Berkeley.

18. Junior, the 1994 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny Devito, was filmed on the Berkeley campus.

19. In Family Ties, Steven Keaton and Elyse Keaton studied at Berkeley.