Jessica Chastain signed up for Harvard

There is a new student in the city. And what a student. It is Jessica Chastainrecently enrolled in a Biennial Master in Public Administration in Harvard. As reported by Varietythe actress was sighted in recent days while she was around the classrooms of the John F. Kennedy School of Government of the University located in Cambridge, in Massachusetts, perfectly at ease between books and lessons, together with the other girls on the campus.

According to what reported by the University website, the course he enrolled “is aimed at aspiring leaders and is flexible, given that it offers the possibility of creating a study plan that reflects the academic interests of the students, focuses on their personal and professional aspirations and more disciplines”.

Years later, Jessica Chastain therefore returns to the books. After attending the City College Sacrament in California and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in the late nineties, the actress studied acting at the Juilliard School, graduating in 2003. From the same institute he then received over twenty years later, in May 2024, a Honoris cause degree For its “exceptional contribution” to the theatrical and cinematographic industry. An articulated and important path of study, which has always claimed with pride, dedicating him to the women of his family who have not had his own possibilities.

In December last year in a speech at the 38th edition of the American Cinemaque Awards, the winner of Oscar winner 2022 for his interpretation in The Eyes of Tammy Faye He recalled poor childhood, lived with his single mother in northern California. “My great -grandmother, my grandmother, my aunt and my mother had children before the age of 17 and had to abandon school and accept poorly paid jobs to support their families – he said. – I was the first of my family not to get pregnant as a teenager, the first to finish high school and the first to attend the university. Going to the Juilliard School has not only changed my life, showed my family that a different path was possible ».

Jessica Chastain It is not the first celebration to return to books in adulthood. Just a few weeks ago Kim Kardashian graduated, always at the Harvard Business School, in jurisprudence, with the goal, perhaps, to follow in the footsteps of his father Robert and embarking on his lawyer career.

After graduating in the English literature achieved in 2014 and an infinite series of cinematographic successes, also Emma Watson He resumed studying, enrolling in 2023 to a creative writing master at the University of Oxford.

Before them, to take a break from Hollywood had been Renée Zellwegerwhich from 2010 to 2016 followed some courses of jurisprudence, politics and international law at UCLA, California. “I needed to take a step back and grow as a person and learn things that were not related to work,” he said at the time.