Jane Fonda

Jane Seymour Fonda born December 21 1937 is an American actress activist and former fashion model She is the recipient of various accolades including two Academy Awards two British Academy Film Awards seven Golden Globe Awards a Primetime Emmy Award the AFI Life Achievement Award the Golden Lion Honorary Award the Honorary Palme dOr and the Cecil B DeMille Award Born to socialite Frances Ford Seymour and actor Henry Fonda Fonda made her acting debut with the 1960 Broadway play 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 during the 1960s with the comedies 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 seventime Academy Award nominee she received her first nomination for They Shoot Horses Dont They 1969 and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Actress twice 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 Fondas boxoffice drawing power and she won a Primetime Emmy Award for her performance in the TV film The Dollmaker 1984 In 1982 she released her first exercise video Jane Fondas Workout which became the highestselling VHS of the 20th century It would be the first of 22 such videos over the next 13 years which would collectively sell over 17 million copies Divorced from her 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 hit MonsterinLaw 2005 Although Georgia Rule 2007 was her only other movie during the 2000s in the early 2010s she fully relaunched 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 49year 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 201214 earned her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations She also released another five exercise videos between 2009 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