![]() ![]() In 1963 she appeared in Sunday in New York. In Walk on the Wild Side Fonda played a prostitute, and earned a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer. Period of Adjustment and Walk on the Wild Side followed in 1962. She averaged almost two movies a year throughout the decade, starting in 1960 with Tall Story, in which she recreated one of her Broadway roles as a college cheerleader pursuing a basketball star, played by Anthony Perkins. Her stage work in the late 1950s laid the foundation for her film career in the 1960s. It was like the roof had come off my life!" 1960s It was the first time that anyone, except my fatherwho had to say sotold me I was good. Upon returning to the states, she met Lee Strasberg, a meeting that changed the course of her life, Fonda saying, "I went to the Actors Studio and Lee Strasberg told me I had talent. ![]() ![]() While at Vassar she went to Paris for two years to study art. She recalled that at the age of five, she and her brother, Peter, acted out Western stories similar to those their father played in the movies. Acting careerįonda became interested in acting in 1954, while appearing with her father in a charity performance of The Country Girl, at the Omaha Community Playhouse. She attended The Emma Willard School in Troy, New York, and Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, but dropped out to become a fashion model, appearing twice on the cover of Vogue. Later that year Fonda's father married socialite, Susan Blanchard this marriage ended in divorce.Īt 15 Fonda taught dance at Fire Island Pines, New York. In 1950 when Fonda was 12 her mother committed suicide while under treatment at a psychiatric hospital. Fonda had a half sister, Frances, who died in 2008. Her brother, Peter Fonda (born 1940), and his daughter Bridget Fonda, also are actors. She was named after the third wife of English king Henry VIII, Lady Jane Seymour, to whom she is distantly related on her mother's side. Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda was born in New York City, the daughter of actor Henry Fonda and socialite Frances Ford Seymour Brokaw. Fonda currently serves on the board of the organization. In 2005 Fonda worked alongside Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem to co-found 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. She describes herself as a liberal and a feminist. She has also protested the Iraq War and violence against women. She also produced and starred in over 20 exercise videos released between 19, and once again in 2010.įonda has been an activist for many political causes, one of the most notable and controversial of which was her opposition to the Vietnam War. After 15 years of retirement she returned to film in 2005 with Monster in Law, followed by Georgia Rule two years later. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other movie awards and nominations during more than 50 years as an actress. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou. Jane Fonda (born Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda December 21, 1937) is an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. ![]()
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