ALLIANCE, Ohio — The University of Mount Union is pleased to announce that Geena Davis, Academy Award-winning actor and advocate, will present the University’s annual Schooler Lecture on Tuesday, April 28, in its Timken Gymnasium.

Davis, one of Hollywood’s most respected actors, earned her first Academy Award in 1989, for Best Supporting Actress, for her role as Muriel Pritchett in Lawrence Kasdan’s “The Accidental Tourist.” She was nominated again three years later for her role in the Ridley Scott classic “Thelma and Louise.”

In 2019, Davis was honored with a second Oscar, the Academy’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in recognition of the work she has done over the decades to achieve gender parity onscreen in film and television. She made her feature film debut starring opposite Dustin Hoffman in “Tootsie.” She went on to star in such films as “The Fly,” “Beetlejuice,” “The Long Kiss Goodnight,” “Stuart Little” and “A League of Their Own.”

Davis also earned the 2006 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama for her role as President Mackenzie Allen in “Commander in Chief.”

Not only is Davis an Oscar and Golden Globe-winning actor, but a world-class athlete (at one time the nation’s 13th-ranked archer), a member of the genius society Mensa and the author of her memoir, “Dying of Politeness,” published by HarperOne. She holds honorary degrees from Boston University, Bates College and New England College.

Tickets for the Schooler Lecture are free and will be made available on a first-come, first-served basis in late February. For more information on this and other events in the Mount Union Lecture Series, visit mountunion.edu/lecture-series.