Posted June 16, 200717 yr From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Jane fonda) Jump to: navigation, search Jane Fonda Birth name Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda Born December 21, 1937 (1937-12-21) (age 69) New York City, New York Years active 1960 - present Spouse(s) Ted Turner (21 December 1991 - 22 May 2001) (divorced) Tom Hayden (21 January 1973 - 1990) (divorced) 1 child Roger Vadim (14 August 1965 - 16 January 1973) (divorced) 1 child Academy Awards Best Actress 1971 Klute 1978 Coming Home Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries/Movie 1984 The Dollmaker Golden Globe Awards Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama 1972 Klute 1978 Julia 1979 Coming Home BAFTA Awards Best Actress 1977 Julia 1979 The China Syndrome Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. Since the 1960s Fonda has appeared in several movies. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other awards and nominations. She initially announced her retirement from acting in 1991, and said for many years that she would never act again, but she returned to film in 2005 with Monster in Law, and later Georgia Rule released in 2007. She also produced and starred in several exercise videos released between 1982 and 1995. Fonda has served as an activist for many political causes, one of the most notable and controversial of which was her opposition to the Vietnam War. She has also protested the Iraq War and violence against women. She describes herself as a liberal and a feminist. Since 2001, Fonda has been a Christian. She published an autobiography in 2005 and currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Fonda was born in New York City to actor Henry Fonda and socialite Frances Ford Seymour, and named Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda. When Jane was twelve years old, her mother committed suicide after voluntarily seeking treatment at a psychiatric hospital.[1] Henry Fonda had distant Italian ancestry, and the surname Fonda originates from Italy.[2] The "Lady" part of Jane Fonda's name was apparently inspired by Lady Jane Seymour, to whom she is distantly related on her mother's side. The "Jayne" comes from her father's middle name Jaynes. Her brother, Peter Fonda (born 1940), and her niece Bridget Fonda (born 1964), are also actors. She has an older half-sister, Frances Brokaw, as well as an adopted sister, Amy, who was born in 1953.[3] After Seymour's suicide, Henry Fonda married Susan Blanchard, who was only 10 years older than Jane. Although all of Henry's children seemed to like Blanchard, Blanchard and Henry Fonda divorced before Jane turned 20. In April 1991, after three decades in film, Fonda announced her retirement from the film industry. In May 2005, however, she returned to the screen, after a 14-year absence, with the box-office success Monster-in-Law, a comedy in which she played the manipulative prospective mother-in-law of Jennifer Lopez's character. In July 2005, the British tabloid The Sun reported that when Fonda was asked if she would appear in a sequel to her 1980 hit Nine to Five, she replied "I'd love to."[6] Fonda's most recent project is the Garry Marshall-directed, Georgia Rule. Fonda starred along with Felicity Huffman, and Lindsay Lohan. The movie opened in theaters May 11, 2007. In the course of her career, Fonda has received seven Oscar nominations, winning twice.
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