Jane Fonda:
An American Motion-picture Actress
Birth Name: Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda

Born:  December 21, 1937 (age 78), New York City, New York, United States 

 The daughter of acclaimed actor Henry Fonda, Jane starred in the acclaimed films Klute and Coming Home, winning Oscars for both. Off screen, she was a civil rights and anti-war activist. In the 1980s, the actress found success launching a series of aerobic-exercise videos. Fonda's recent projects include The Newsroom, Grace and Frankie and Youth.

 Her mother, socialite Frances Seymour Brokaw, committed suicide when Fonda was 12 years old. Not long after her mother's death, Fonda developed an eating disorder, which she struggled with for years. She attended boarding school and then went to Vassar College. Leaving college, Fonda went to Paris to study art. Fonda returned to New York and did a bit of modeling for a time. Before long, she decided to follow in her father's footstepest   In 1954 she co-starred with her father, Henry Fonda, in a production of The Country Girl. Fonda began to study her craft with Lee Strasberg at the famed Actors Studio a few years later.

Career Beginnings:

Fonda's career seemed to really take off in 1960. She made her film debut in Tall Story (1960) with Anthony Perkins. On Broadway,  netted a Tony Award nomination for There Was a Little Girl. She continued to juggle theatrical and film work over the next few years. Working with director George Cukor, Fonda starred in the romantic comedy The Chapman Report (1962). She shared the Broadway stage with Celeste Holm in Invitation to a March and Dyan Cannon in The Fun Couple around this time. five Oscar nominations for Best Actress in El baile interminable (1969), Julia (1977), El síndrome de China (1979), A la mañana siguiente (1986) and En la laguna dorada (1981),


Film Actress and Activist:

On the big screen, Fonda continued to deliver strong performances. She starred as playwright Lillian Hellman in Julia (1977) with Vanessa Redgrave. The following year, Fonda won her second Academy Award for the Vietnam War drama Coming Home with Jon Voight. She also starred in the hit thriller The China Syndrome (1979) with Jack Lemmon and Michael Douglas around this time. Another significant role for Fonda came a few years later. She co-starred with her father Henry in On Golden Pond (1982). Art mirrored life in this case, with Fonda playing daughter to her real-life father. Katharine Hepburn also starred as Fonda's mother. The film gave her father his first and only Academy Award win as best actor.

Recent Proyects:

In 2005, Fonda made a dramatic return to the public eye. She appeared in her first film in almost 15 years with Monster-in-Law, which also starred Jennifer Lopez and Michael Vartan. Then she made a varity  film roles followed, including playing the title character in the 2007 film Georgia Rule with Lindsay Lohan.

Working on the small screen, Fonda landed a recurring role on the media-focused dramatic series The Newsroom in 2012. She also played former First Lady Nancy Reagan in the 2013 film The Butler.


Personal Life:

Fonda was married three times, to the French film director Roger Vadim (1965–73),and they had a daughter named Vanessa together. To the American politician Tom Hayden (1973–90) They welcomed their son Troy Garity that same year and when he was a teenager, Fonda also unofficially adopted a young African-American girl named Mary Williams  , and to the American broadcasting entrepreneur Ted Turner (1991–2001), they stayed together for a decade. The couple divorced in 2001, reportedly over Fonda's newfound Christian faith. Nowdays she has been dating music producer Richard Perry.