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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Academy Award-winning actor and author Jane Fonda will deliver USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism commencement speech as its 2025 keynote speaker, the school announced Thursday.
Fonda has received two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award. She has also received nominations for a Grammy Award and two Tony Awards.
Fonda reminds us that communication -- whether through story, advocacy or dialogue -- is an essential catalyst for positive change, and inspires our class of 2025 to use their voices with purpose," Annenberg Dean Willow Bay said in a statement.
Fonda is also an activist, known for her role in the counterculture movement during the Vietnam War. She was also a protester of the Iraq War, and is a self-described feminist and environmentalist.
Currently in what she calls her third act," 87-year-old Fonda has dedicated her voice to climate activism. In 2021, she published What Can I Do?: The Path from Climate Despair to Action," which discussed her own journey in advocacy and outlined actions to combat climate change. Fonda spent her 82nd birthday in jail after being arrested at a climate protest in Washington, D.C.
Her many movies include Barbarella" (1968), Klute" (1971), Coming Home" (1978), On Golden Pond" (1981) and most recently, Our Souls at Night" (2017), alongside Robert Redford.
Fonda will take the stage at the Shrine Auditorium for the Annenberg School's commencement ceremony on May 16.
