{"id":313,"date":"2017-01-23T19:31:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T19:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marketing.sandiego.edu\/alumnihonors21\/?page_id=313"},"modified":"2021-07-18T22:32:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T22:32:53","slug":"jim-parsons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marketing.sandiego.edu\/alumnihonors21\/2015honorees\/jim-parsons\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Parsons \u201901 (MFA)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marketing.sandiego.edu\/alumnihonors21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/01\/jim-parsons-400-500.jpg\" alt=\"jim-parsons-400-500\" itemprop=\"image\" title=\"jim-parsons-400-500\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9Qi0-do3ovo\" role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Honoree Video<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<h3>Author E. Hughes Career Achievement Award<\/h3>\n<h4>College of Arts and Sciences<\/h4>\n<h5>Jim Parsons &#8217;01 (MFA)<\/h5>\n<h6>Actor<\/h6>\n<p>Four-time Emmy winner, Golden Globe\u00ae Award winner and SAG nominee, Jim Parsons continues to bring a winning combination of indelible charm, charisma and comedic timing to his roles on screen and on stage, establishing himself as one of Hollywood&#8217;s leading men.<\/p>\n<p>Parsons is best known for his role as Sheldon Cooper in CBS&#8217; critically acclaimed hit, &#8220;The Big Bang Theory.&#8221; On the big screen, Parsons can be heard voicing a lead character, named &#8220;Oh,&#8221; alongside Rihanna in &#8220;Home,&#8221; a DreamWorks Animation adaptation of the award-winning book, The True Meaning of Smekday, by Adam Rex. Parsons recently co-starred in HBO&#8217;s Emmy- winning original movie adaptation of &#8220;The Normal Heart,&#8221; where he reprised his role as Tommy Boatwright from the Tony Award-winning play of the same name. Parsons received an Emmy nomination for his role.<\/p>\n<p>Parsons earned a Master&#8217;s in Fine Arts degree from The Old Globe\/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Houston. He currently resides in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/marketing.sandiego.edu\/alumnihonors21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/11\/AH_2021_Web_1350px.png\" alt=\"Line\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"58\" width=\"1350\" title=\"Line\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/toreronetwork.sandiego.edu\/s\/1374\/hybrid\/start.aspx?sid=1374&#038;gid=2&#038;pgid=61\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" itemprop=\"url\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/marketing.sandiego.edu\/alumnihonors21\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/11\/2c-Horizontal-Logo-reverse-700.png\" alt=\"University of San Diego\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"156\" width=\"700\" title=\"University of San Diego\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honoree Video Author E. Hughes Career Achievement Award College of Arts and Sciences Jim Parsons &#8217;01 (MFA) Actor Four-time Emmy winner, Golden Globe\u00ae Award winner and SAG nominee, Jim Parsons continues to bring a winning combination of indelible charm, charisma and comedic timing to his roles on screen and on stage, establishing himself as one&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"parent":210,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-313","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketing.sandiego.edu\/alumnihonors21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketing.sandiego.edu\/alumnihonors21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketing.sandiego.edu\/alumnihonors21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketing.sandiego.edu\/alumnihonors21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketing.sandiego.edu\/alumnihonors21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/marketing.sandiego.edu\/alumnihonors21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1478,"href":"https:\/\/marketing.sandiego.edu\/alumnihonors21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/313\/revisions\/1478"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketing.sandiego.edu\/alumnihonors21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketing.sandiego.edu\/alumnihonors21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}