GRANVILLE (AP) — Actress Jennifer Garner has announced she will be speaking at the graduation ceremony at her Ohio alma mater, Denison University.
She joked in a video statement to Denison’s graduating class that she guesses the university “couldn’t get Oprah or Michelle Obama or anyone real, and so it’s going to be me.”
The 46-year-old star HBO’s “Camping” and movies such as “Daredevil” and “13 Going on 30” graduated from the central Ohio school in Granville in 1994.
The Columbus Dispatch reports the May 18 ceremony will be open only to graduating Denison students and their families. It will be the school’s 178th commencement.
CNN news personality Fareed Zakaria will deliver the address during Ohio State’s spring commencement May 5.
The journalist, political scientist and author is the host of Fareed Zakaria GPS for CNN Worldwide and is a columnist for The Washington Post.