Jessica Chastain has gone back to school.
A source tells me the Oscar winner is enrolled in the two-year Master in Public Administration program at The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Chastain has been spotted taking classes at the Cambridge, Massachusetts graduate school this summer.
“The Master in Public Administration Program is for aspiring leaders with real-world experience and graduate-level coursework in economics, public policy, or management,” according to Harvard’s website. “The Master in Public Administration (MPA) curriculum is flexible. You create a study plan that reflects your academic interests, focuses on your personal and professional aspirations, and integrates across disciplines.”
Chastain attended Sacramento City College and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She graduated from the Juilliard School in 2003 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in drama. She received an honorary doctorate from Juilliard in 2024 for her “outstanding contributions” to the fields of film and theatre.
Chastain made her film debut in 2008 in “Jolene.” She earned the Academy Award for best actress, plus a Critics Choice Award and SAG Award, for her work as Tammy Faye Bakker opposite Andrew Garfield as Jim Bakker in 2021’s “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.” She made her Broadway debut in “The Heiress” in 2012.
An outspoken advocate for gender equality and women’s rights, Variety honored Chastain at its 2017 Power of Women luncheon in New York City her work with Planned Parenthood, an organization that she relied on for birth control services before she became a big-screen star. Access to affordable reproductive health care “makes it possible for a woman to have the equal opportunity of her male counterparts of having jurisdiction over her body, her life and her health,” she said.
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