Actress Sarah Jessica Parker will deliver the graduation commencement speech in June for Northwestern’s Class of 2026, according to an announcement Tuesday from the university.
Parker will also receive an honorary doctorate of arts degree at the ceremony, which will begin at 10:30 a.m. June 14 at the United Center in Chicago.
“I’m truly honored to have been invited to serve as this year’s commencement speaker,” Parker said in part in a statement. “It’s a privilege to celebrate a graduating class whose years of hard work, dedication to their studies, commitment to one another, their community and the larger world deserve real recognition.”
Parker, best known for her long-running role as Carrie Bradshaw in the television series “Sex and the City” and its spinoffs, has also had a career in movies and on Broadway and has been active in publishing, launching her own SJP Lit imprint through Zando in 2023.
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