Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda
Biography
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.
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
242
Gender
Female
Birthday
1937-12-21 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Acting

2025

Sally as Self (archive footage)

2024

This Is Me…Now as Sagittarius

2024

My Way as Narrator (voice)

2024

Call Me Ted as self

2023

80 for Brady as Trish

2023

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken as Grandmamah (voice)

2023

Moving On as Claire

2023

Beau geste as Self

2023

Thriller 40 as Self (archive footage)

2023

Bad Luck Spot! as Babe the Dragon (voice)

2023

Barbarella Forever as Self

2023

Sex on Screen as Self

2023

The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty as Self - Actress (archive footage)

2022

The Kardashians as Self

2022

Luck as Dragon (voice)

2022

Body Parts as Self

2022

Train Like a Girl as Self (archive footage)

2021

Yearly Departed as Self

2021

Senior Entourage as Self

2021

We Are Cinema as Self (archive footage)

2021

Stoner Cats as Ms. Stoner

2020

History 101 as Self (archive footage)

2020

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire as Self - Contestant

2020

Dear... as Self

2020

Waging Change as Self

2020

Citizen Jane Fonda as Self

2020

Delphine and Carole as Self (archive footage)

2019

The Masked Singer as Special Message (via video)

2019

Hal as Self

2018

Explained as Self (archive footage)

2018

Somebody Feed Phil as Self

2018

Book Club as Vivian

2018

Norm Macdonald Has a Show as Self - Guest

2017

Our Souls at Night as Addie Moore

2016

Elena and the Secret of Avalor as Shuriki (voice)

2016

HyperNormalisation as Self (archive footage)

2016

Connected as Self-help Guru (voice)

2016

Vadim Mister Cool as Self (archive footage)

2015

Grace and Frankie as Grace Hanson

2015

Youth as Brenda Morel

2015

Fathers and Daughters as Theodora

2014

And the Oscar Goes To... as Self - Interviewee

2014

This Is Where I Leave You as Hillary Altman

2014

Trailblazer Honors as Self - Speaker

2014

Olga as Self

2014

Better Living Through Chemistry as Pharmacy Customer

2013

The Butler as Nancy Reagan

2012

The Newsroom as Leona Lansing

2012

All Together as Jeanne

2011

Miss Representation as Self

2011

Oprah's Master Class as Herself

2010

Beautiful Darling as Self (archive footage)

2008

Dominick Dunne: After the Party as Self (archive footage)

2007

Georgia Rule as Georgia Randall

2007

Brando as Self

2006

Beautiful Daughters as Self

2005

The Colbert Report as Self - Guest

2005

The Reichen Show as Self

2005

Monster-in-Law as Viola Fields

2005

Sir! No Sir! as Self

2004

The Tony Danza Show as Self - Guest

2004

Leçon de Cinéma as Self

2003

Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self

2003

Complicated Women as Self - Narrator (voice)

1999

The Early Show as Self - Guest

1998

Vivement dimanche as Self

1997

Leute heute as Self

1997

The View as Self - Guest

1997

The View as Self

1996

The Daily Show as Self

1996

The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest

1996

E! True Hollywood Story as Not available

1994

A Century of Cinema as Self

1992

Fonda on Fonda as Self - Host

1990

Stanley & Iris as Iris King

1990

The Earth Day Special as Hellen

1989

The Simpsons as Maxine Lombard (voice)

1989

Old Gringo as Harriet Winslow

1987

Leonard Part 6 as Jane Fonda (uncredited)

1987

Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star as Self (archive footage)

1986

The Morning After as Alexandra Sternbergen

1986

Barbra Streisand: One Voice as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)

1985

Agnes of God as Dr. Martha Louise Livingston

1984

Goldene Kamera as Self

1984

The Dollmaker as Gertie Nevels

1984

I Love Quincy as Self

1983

Montgomery Clift as Self

1983

Workout Challenge as Self

1982

Champs-Elysées as Self

1982

Champs-Elysées as Narratrice (voice) (archive footage)

1982

I Love Liberty as Self

1982

Night of 100 Stars as Self

1982

Workout as Self

1982

Lily for President? as Judy Bernly

1981

Wetten, dass..? as Self

1981

On Golden Pond as Chelsea Thayer Wayne

1981

Lily: Sold Out as Wanda

1981

Rollover as Lee Winters

1980

Nine to Five as Judy Bernly

1980

No Nukes as Self

1980

The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's as Self (archive footage)

1980

Magic Night as Self

1979

The Electric Horseman as Hallie

1979

The China Syndrome as Kimberly Wells

1978

Coming Home as Sally Hyde

1978

Comes a Horseman as Ella Connors

1978

California Suite as Hannah Warren

1977

Julia as Lillian Hellman

1977

Fun with Dick and Jane as Jane Harper

1976

The Blue Bird as The Night

1975

Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

1975

Apostrophes as Self

1975

Anna as Self (uncredited)

1974

Spécial cinéma as Self

1974

Dinah! as Self

1974

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1973

A Doll's House as Nora Helmer

1973

Steelyard Blues as Iris Caine

1973

Jane as Self - Interviewee

1972

Tout Va Bien as Her, Suzanne

1971

'Klute' in New York as Self

1971

Klute as Bree Daniels

1970

Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks as Not available

1969

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? as Gloria Beatty

1968

The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest

1968

Barbarella as Barbarella

1968

Spirits of the Dead as Contessa Frederique de Metzengerstein (segment "Metzengerstein")

1967

Barefoot in the Park as Corie Bratter

1967

Hurry Sundown as Julie Ann Warren

1966

The Game Is Over as Renée Saccard

1966

The Chase as Anna Reeves

1966

Any Wednesday as Ellen Gordon

1965

Cat Ballou as Catherine 'Cat' Ballou

1964

Joy House as Melinda

1964

Circle of Love as Sophie

1963

Sunday in New York as Eileen Tyler

1963

In the Cool of the Day as Christine Bonner

1962

Walk on the Wild Side as Kitty Twist

1962

Jane as Self

1962

Period of Adjustment as Isabel Haverstick

1962

The Chapman Report as Kathleen Barclay

1960

Tall Story as June Ryder

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Host

1956

Cinépanorama as Self

1953

The Oscars as Self

1952

Today as Self

1972

FTA as Self

1961

A String of Beads as Gloria Winters

1950

What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
Crew

2024

Norita Executive Producer

1982

9 to 5 Producer

1972

FTA Writer

1972

FTA Producer

1972

Nationtime Producer