At 24, Yale grad Kip Pardue has the whole package, and his expensive college education seems to be helping him navigate the cruel waters of the celebrity whirlpool.

After getting into the biz as a model for Armani and Ralph Lauren, Pardue made the leap to film with a small role in the offbeat (and mostly unseen) comedy But I'm a Cheerleader.

Since then, things have been heating up fast. In last fall's sleeper hit Remember the Titans, he showed off his jockness as a high school quarterback named Sunshine. He has a supporting role in the thriller The Glass House, due out this spring, and he just wrapped his biggest flick yet--Driven, director Renny Harlin's homage to the CART racing circuit. With that big-budget action film, Pardue makes it into the driver's seat, costarring opposite Sylvester Stallone in a leading-man role that's sure to make him into something of a household name.

Just don't tell him he's on the fast track.

"It's hard to pay attention to this stuff," says Pardue, who's also finishing the dark comedy Rat in the Can this year. "It always amazes me that E! Online wants to talk to me at all. I feel like I'm just doing a job. It's amazing to think that you affect other peoples' lives on such a grand scale. I'm so thankful for that, and I'm so lucky. It's hard to stop and think that people are interested in me."

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Kip has played in movies like, Remember  The Titans in which he played Ronnie "Sunshine" Bass and one of his co-stars was Academy Award winner Denzel Washington. Kip also played in  the movie, Driven, in which he played the rockie driver.  One of this co-stars was "Rocky" legend, Sylvester Stallone