Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda (born New York, December 21, 1937) is an American actress, political activist, and latterly fitness guru. She rose to prominence in the 1960s with films such as Walk on the Wild Side (1962), in which she played a prostitute and for which she won a Golden Globe as Most Promising Newcomer; Sunday in New York (1963) and the comedy western Cat Bellou (1965), which was nominated for five Oscars and established her bankability as a star. She supported the North Vietnamese side in the Vietnam War and (for a while) was married to political activist Tom Hayden and then later to leftist media mogul Ted Turner. Her marriage to Turner ended in 2001 when she became a Christian.[1] She is the daughter of Henry Fonda and sister of Peter Fonda.
During her career, Fonda was nominated for seven Academy Awards, and won two as Best Actress, for 1971's Klute and 1978's Coming Home.
She announced her retirement from screen acting in the early 1990s, but returned to the screen in the movie Monster-in-Law (2005). In 2009 she played Katherine Brandt in Moises Kaufman's 33 Variations on Broadway, in which role she received a Tony nomination.
Apart from acting, Fonda is also known for a series of workout tapes she produced that gained prominence in the early 1980s.
References
- ↑ Ted Turner became upset when she began attending Atlanta's fashionable Peachtree Presbyterian Church. How Jane Fonda Met Jesus
Links
- Jane Fonda at the Internet Movie Database