Actress Jane Seymour Named HPU's Undergraduate ...
HIGH POINT, N.C., Sept. 3, 2024 – Jane Seymour, the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actress known for starring in the TV show “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” will deliver High Point University’s Commencement address to undergraduate students on May 3, 2025.
Seymour gained international fame after she starred alongside Roger Moore in the 1973 James Bond film “Live and Let Die.” Since then, she has proven to be one of Hollywood’s most endearing actresses, appearing in more than 100 films and TV shows and receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1999. She has also starred on Broadway.
HPU will have another extraordinary speaker who will give the Commencement address to graduate students on May 1, 2025. The speaker will be announced soon. While Commencements are private events for HPU graduates and their families, they will be streamed live at https://www.highpoint.edu/live.
“At High Point University, we create opportunities for leaders in different industries to come to campus and share their knowledge and insight with students,” HPU President Nido Qubein said. “Our graduates will benefit from hearing from Jane Seymour, who has risen to the top of her profession and remained there for more than five decades thanks to her determination and hard work.”
Qubein and Seymour have each received the prestigious Horatio Alger Award, given to exceptional leaders who have triumphed over adversity and personify the American Dream. He was presented with the honor in 2006, and Seymour followed in 2022.
About Jane Seymour:
As the iconic star of “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” which aired on CBS from 1993-98, Seymour became a role model for women and girls around the world. She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a TV Drama Series in 1995.
In 2000, Seymour received the Officer of the British Empire bestowed upon her by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.
She has starred in films of all genres, including the 1980 romance “Somewhere in Time,” the 1982 British adventure “The Scarlet Pimpernel,” and “Wedding Crashers,” the highest-grossing comedy of 2005.
Seymour started the Open Hearts Foundation, a nonprofit organization that was inspired by her mother, who was a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. In addition, she has co-authored several children’s books and self-help books and created jewelry, scarves and clothes under her Jane Seymour Designs label.
Seymour joins a long list of distinguished HPU Commencement speakers:
Daniel Lubetzky, founder of KIND Snacks Cynt Marshall, CEO of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks and HPU Sports Executive in Residence Michio Kaku, physicist and co-founder of String Field Theory Wolf Blitzer, lead political anchor at CNN Condoleezza Rice, the 66th Secretary of State of the United States Tom Brokaw, NBC broadcast legend Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and national security advisor Former First Lady Laura Bush Josh Groban, internationally acclaimed singer, songwriter and actor U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple and HPU’s Innovator in Residence Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan NASA Astronaut Dr. Buzz Aldrin Muhtar Kent, CEO of the Coca-Cola Company
