Jane Fonda

**Jane Seymour Fonda**[1] (born December 21, 1937)[2] is an American actress, political activist and former fashion model. She is the recipient of various accolades including two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the AFI Life Achievement Award, and the Honorary Golden Lion.[3]

Born to actor Henry Fonda and socialite Frances Ford Seymour, Fonda made her acting debut with the 1960 Broadwayplay *There Was a Little Girl*, for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, and made her screen debut later the same year with the romantic comedy *Tall Story*. She rose to prominence in the 1960s with such films as *Period of Adjustment* (1962), *Sunday in New York* (1963), *Cat Ballou* (1965), *Barefoot in the Park* (1967) and *Barbarella* (1968). Her first husband was *Barbarella* director Roger Vadim. A seven-time Academy Award nominee, she received her first nomination for *They Shoot Horses, Don't They?* (1969) and went on to win two Best Actress Oscars in the 1970s for *Klute* (1971) and *Coming Home* (1978). Her other nominations were for *Julia* (1977), *The China Syndrome* (1979), *On Golden Pond* (1981) and *The Morning After* (1986). Consecutive hits *Fun with Dick and Jane*(1977), *California Suite* (1978), *The Electric Horseman* (1979) and *9 to 5* (1980) sustained Fonda's box-office drawing power, and she won a Primetime Emmy Award for her performance in the 1984 TV film *The Dollmaker*.

In 1982, she released her first exercise video, *Jane Fonda's Workout*, which became the highest-selling VHS of all time.[4]It would be the first of twenty-two such videos over the next thirteen years, which would collectively sell over seventeen million copies. Divorced from second husband Tom Hayden, she married billionaire media mogul Ted Turner in 1991 and retired from acting, following a row of commercially unsuccessful films concluded by *Stanley & Iris* (1990). Fonda divorced Turner in 2001 and returned to the screen with the 2005 hit *Monster-in-Law*. Though *Georgia Rule* (2007) was the star's only other movie during the 2000s, in the early 2010s she fully re-launched her career. Subsequent films have included *The Butler* (2013), *This Is Where I Leave You* (2014), *Youth* (2015), *Our Souls at Night* (2017) and *Book Club* (2018). In 2009, she returned to Broadway after a 49-year absence from the stage, in the play *33 Variations* which earned her a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, while her major recurring role in the HBO drama series *The Newsroom* (2012–14) earned her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She also released another five exercise videos between 2010 and 2012. Fonda currently stars as Grace Hanson in the Netflix comedy series *Grace and Frankie*, which debuted in 2015 and has earned her nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Fonda was a visible political activist in the counterculture era during the Vietnam War. She was photographed sitting on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun on a 1972 visit to Hanoi, during which she gained the nickname "Hanoi Jane". During this time, she was effectively blacklisted in Hollywood. She has also protested the Iraq War and violence against women, and describes herself as a feminist. In 2005, along with Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem, she co-founded the Women's Media Center, an organization that works to amplify the voices of women in the media through advocacy, media and leadership training, and the creation of original content. Fonda serves on the board of the organization.