Jane Fonda

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 d'Or, 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 seven-time Academy Award nominee, she received her first nomination for They Shoot Horses, Don't 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 Fonda's box-office 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 Fonda's Workout, which became the highest-selling 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 Monster-in-Law (2005). Although Georgia Rule (2007) was her 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 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.

Acting

2025

2025

Sally

Self (archive footage)

2025

The Matt Gaetz Show

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2024

2024

My Way

Narrator (voice)

2024

2024

This Is Me…Now

Sagittarius

2023

Thriller 40

Self (archive footage)

2023

2023

2023

Bad Luck Spot!

Babe the Dragon (voice)

2023

Moving On

Claire

2023

2023

2023

2022

2022

2022

Train Like a Girl

Self (archive footage)

2022

2022

Luck

Dragon (voice)

2022

2022

2022

2022

2022

2022

2021

2021

We Are Cinema

Self (archive footage)

2021

2021

Stoner Cats

Ms. Stoner

2021

2020

2020

2020

2020

2020

History 101

Self (archive footage)

2020

2019

2019

2019

The Masked Singer

Special Message (via video)

2018

2018

2018

Explained

Self (archive footage)

2018

Book Club

Vivian

2018

2018

Jane Fonda in Five Acts

Self - (archive footage)

2018

2017

2016

2016

HyperNormalisation

Self (archive footage)

2016

2015

2015

2015

2015

2015

Youth

Brenda Morel

2015

Grace and Frankie

Grace Hanson

2014

2014

Becoming California

Self - Narrator

2014

2014

2014

2014

2014

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

Self - Interviewee

2013

The Butler

Nancy Reagan

2012

The Newsroom

Leona Lansing

2012

2011

2011

2009

2007

Georgia Rule

Georgia Randall

2007

Brando

Self

2007

2006

2005

2005

The Colbert Report

Self - Guest

2005

2005

Monster-in-Law

Viola Fields

2004

2004

2004

2003

2003

2003

2002

1999

The Early Show

Self - Guest

1998

1997

1997

The View

Self - Guest

1997

1996

1996

1996

1995

1994

1992

Fonda on Fonda

Self - Host

1990

1990

1990

1989

The Simpsons

Maxine Lombard (voice)

1989

Old Gringo

Harriet Winslow

1987

Leonard Part 6

Jane Fonda (uncredited)

1987

1986

Barbra Streisand: One Voice

Self - Audience Member (uncredited)

1986

The Morning After

Alexandra Sternbergen

1986

1985

Agnes of God

Dr. Martha Louise Livingston

1985

1984

1984

1982

1982

1982

Champs-Elysées

Narratrice (voice) (archive footage)

1982

1981

On Golden Pond

Chelsea Thayer Wayne

1981

Rollover

Lee Winters

1981

1981

1981

1981

1980

Nine to Five

Judy Bernly

1980

1980

1979

1979

The China Syndrome

Kimberly Wells

1978

Comes a Horseman

Ella Connors

1978

California Suite

Hannah Warren

1978

Coming Home

Sally Hyde

1977

Julia

Lillian Hellman

1977

1976

The Blue Bird

The Night

1975

Saturday Night Live

Self - Cameo (uncredited)

1974

Dinah!

Self

1974

1974

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1973

Jane

Self - Interviewee

1973

A Doll's House

Nora Helmer

1973

1973

Steelyard Blues

Iris Caine

1972

FTA

Self

1972

Tout Va Bien

Her, Suzanne

1971

1971

Klute

Bree Daniels

1970

1969

1968

Barbarella

Barbarella

1968

1968

Spirits of the Dead

Contessa Frederique de Metzengerstein (segment "Metzengerstein")

1967

1967

Hurry Sundown

Julie Ann Warren

1966

Any Wednesday

Ellen Gordon

1966

The Game Is Over

Renée Saccard

1966

The Chase

Anna Reeves

1965

Cat Ballou

Catherine 'Cat' Ballou

1964

1964

Joy House

Melinda

1963

Sunday in New York

Eileen Tyler

1963

In the Cool of the Day

Christine Bonner

1962

Period of Adjustment

Isabel Haverstick

1962

The Chapman Report

Kathleen Barclay

1962

1962

1962

1961

1960

Tall Story

June Ryder

1957

1956

Tony Awards

Self - Host

1956

1953

1952

Today

Self

1950

What's My Line?

Self - Mystery Guest

1944

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Winner

Production

1982

9 to 5

Producer

1972

FTA

Producer

Writing

1972

FTA

Writer

Infos

Full Name
Jane Fonda
Gender
Female
Date of Birth
12/21/1937
Website
https://www.janefonda.com
Also Known As

Jane Seymour Fonda