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

2026

2025

Chaos: The Manson Murders
Movie

Self - Activist (archive footage)

2025

Sally
Movie

Self (archive footage)

2025

The Matt Gaetz Show
Tv

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2024

My Way
Movie

Narrator (voice)

2024

2023

Thriller 40
Movie

Self (archive footage)

2023

2023

Bad Luck Spot!
Movie

Babe the Dragon (voice)

2023

2023

2022

Train Like a Girl
Tv

Self (archive footage)

2022

Luck
Movie

Dragon (voice)

2022

Deneuve, la reine Catherine
Movie

Self (archive footage)

2021

We Are Cinema
Movie

Self (archive footage)

2021

2020

History 101
Tv

Self (archive footage)

2020

Delphine and Carole
Movie

Self (archive footage)

2019

2019

The Masked Singer
Tv

Special Message (via video)

2018

2018

Jane Fonda in Five Acts
Movie

Self - (archive footage)

2016

HyperNormalisation
Movie

Self (archive footage)

2015

Youth
Movie

Brenda Morel

2015

2014

2014

2013

The Butler
Movie

Nancy Reagan

2012

The Newsroom
Tv

Leona Lansing

2007

Georgia Rule
Movie

Georgia Randall

2007

2005

2005

2003

2002

Heart of the Festival
Movie

Self (archive footage)

1999

The Early Show
Tv

Self - Guest

1997

1997

The View
Tv

Self - Guest

1992

1990

1989

The Simpsons
Tv

Maxine Lombard (voice)

1989

Old Gringo
Movie

Harriet Winslow

1987

Leonard Part 6
Movie

Jane Fonda (uncredited)

1986

Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Movie

Self - Audience Member (uncredited)

1986

The Morning After
Movie

Alexandra Sternbergen

1985

Agnes of God
Movie

Dr. Martha Louise Livingston

1982

Champs-Elysées
Tv

Narratrice (voice) (archive footage)

1981

On Golden Pond
Movie

Chelsea Thayer Wayne

1981

Rollover
Movie

Lee Winters

1980

1979

1978

1978

1978

1977

Julia
Movie

Lillian Hellman

1976

1975

Saturday Night Live
Tv

Self - Cameo (uncredited)

1974

1974

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Movie

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1973

Jane
Movie

Self - Interviewee

1973

Jane
Movie

Self - Interviewee

1973

1973

1972

1972

Tout Va Bien
Movie

Her, Suzanne

1971

Klute
Movie

Bree Daniels

1968

Barbarella
Movie

Barbarella

1968

Spirits of the Dead
Movie

Contessa Frederique de Metzengerstein (segment "Metzengerstein")

1967

1967

Hurry Sundown
Movie

Julie Ann Warren

1966

Any Wednesday
Movie

Ellen Gordon

1966

The Game Is Over
Movie

Renée Saccard

1966

The Chase
Movie

Anna Reeves

1965

Cat Ballou
Movie

Catherine 'Cat' Ballou

1964

1963

1963

1962

Period of Adjustment
Movie

Isabel Haverstick

1962

The Chapman Report
Movie

Kathleen Barclay

1960

Tall Story
Movie

June Ryder

1953

1952

1944

Production

2026

Gaslit
Movie

Producer

2026

Gaslit
Movie

Producer

2026

Gaslit
Movie

Producer

2024

Norita
Movie

Executive Producer

1972

1972

FTA
Movie

Producer

Writing

1972

FTA
Movie

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