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 Born in New York City to legendary screen star Henry Fonda and Ontario-born New York socialite Frances Seymour Brokaw, Jane Seymour Fonda was destined early to an uncommon and influential life in the limelight. Although she initially showed little inclination to follow her father's trade, she was prompted by Joshua Logan to appear with her father in the 1954 Omaha Community Theatre production of "The Country Girl". Her interest in acting grew after meeting Lee Strasberg in 1958 and joining the Actors Studio. Her screen debut in Tall Story (1960) (directed by Logan) marked the beginning of a highly successful and respected acting career highlighted by two Academy Awards for her performances in Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978), and five Oscar nominations for Best Actress in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), Julia (1977), The China Syndrome (1979), The Morning After (1986) and On Golden Pond (1981), which was the only film she made with her father. Her professional success contrasted with her personal life, which was often laden with scandal and controversy. Her appearance in several risqu�� movies (including Barbarella (1968)) by then-husband Roger Vadim was followed by what was to become her most debated and controversial period: her espousal of anti-establishment causes and especially her anti-war activities during the Vietnam War. Her political involvement continued with fellow activist and husband Tom Hayden in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In the 1980s she started the aerobic exercise craze with the publication of the "Jane Fonda's Workout Book". She and Hayden divorced, and she married broadcasting mogul Ted Turner in 1991.
Bio:
Born in New York City to legendary screen star Henry Fonda and Ontario-born New York socialite Frances Seymour Brokaw, Jane Seymour Fonda was destined early to an uncommon and influential life in the limelight. Although she initially showed little inclination to follow her father's trade, she was prompted by Joshua Logan to appear with her father in the 1954 Omaha Community Theatre production of "The Country Girl". Her interest in acting grew after meeting Lee Strasberg in 1958 and joining the Actors Studio. Her screen debut in Tall Story (1960) (directed by Logan) marked the beginning of a highly successful and respected acting career highlighted by two Academy Awards for her performances in Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978), and five Oscar nominations for Best Actress in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), Julia (1977), The China Syndrome (1979), The Morning After (1986) and On Golden Pond (1981), which was the only film she made with her father. Her professional success contrasted with her personal life, which was often laden with scandal and controversy. Her appearance in several risqu�� movies (including Barbarella (1968)) by then-husband Roger Vadim was followed by what was to become her most debated and controversial period: her espousal of anti-establishment causes and especially her anti-war activities during the Vietnam War. Her political involvement continued with fellow activist and husband Tom Hayden in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In the 1980s she started the aerobic exercise craze with the publication of the "Jane Fonda's Workout Book". She and Hayden divorced, and she married broadcasting mogul Ted Turner in 1991.
Tivia:
Caught Ted Turner cheating one month after their wedding, prompting Fonda to hit him repeatedly with a car phone and pour a bottled beverage on his head.Arrested at Cleveland Airport, Ohio, after allegedly kicking patrolman Robert Pieper and customs agent Edward Matuszek in the groin and upper leg during their struggle to detain her upon finding 105 bottles containing some 2,000 capsules in her luggage. The star spent 10 hours in a cell at Cuyahoga County Jail and was released on $6,000 personal bond. A federal drug smuggling charge was dropped once the substances were identified as vitamins and prescribed amounts of Dexedrine, Valium and Compazine. For lack of evidence, a federal assault charge pressed by Matuszek was dropped too, since the supposed 'assault' occurred when he chased Fonda into the ladies room. Pieper filed a $100,000 personal injury lawsuit against her in civil court that was eventually dismissed at his attorney's request. (November 2, 1970)Breast cancer survivor.In 1984, her wealth, generated from acting, producing, and fitness videos was estimated at $50 million.With help of lawyers, she gained access to her late mother's medical records from the Austen Riggs Center in Massachusetts. The records showed that Frances Seymour had nine abortions before giving birth to Jane.She and her father Henry Fonda are the only father-daughter couple to receive Oscars for leading roles.Married Ted Turner on her birthday in 1991.Nominated for the 2009 Tony Award for Best Performance for a Leading Actress in a Play for "33 Variations".Was offered the role of Chris MacNeil in The Exorcist (1973).Participated in the Vancouver Greenpeace Rally along with roughly 5,500 others (including Rachel McAdams) to protest oil drilling in British Columbia. (June 13, 2015)Danced ballet until she broke her foot in her 40s.Had hip and knee replacements. Unrelated to her workout regimen, it is a genetic condition. Both her father and brother also had replacements.Jane now openly admits that she suffered from bulimia from ages 13 to 37. While modeling, she said she lived on cigarettes, coffee, speed, and strawberry yogurt.Has a maternal half-sister, Pan Corrias (1931-2008) and an adoptive sister, Amy Fishman (n��e Amy Fonda; b. 1953).A 1972 visit to Hanoi during the Vietnam war where Fonda campaigned in favor of the communist regime and the subsequent release of several photographs of her atop a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun used against American air crews earned her the nickname "Hanoi Jane." As a result of her visit to Hanoi and the accompanying photographs, many Americans continue to regard Fonda with general resentment and hostility to this day.Claims that when she is out of makeup she can easily go to public places without being recognized.Jane's appearance in On Golden Pond (1981) with dad Henry Fonda and son Troy Garity marked the only time three generations of Fondas appeared in the same film.Attended Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY. Her roommate was Lara Parker. Parker later co-starred with Jane's brother Peter Fonda in the film Race with the Devil (1975).Passed on the title role in Norma Rae (1979), which won a Best Actress Oscar for its eventual star Sally Field.She and Tom Hayden gave their son Troy Garity his paternal grandmother's last name for the sake of anonymity.Has a daughter, Vanessa Vadim with Roger Vadim, and a son, Troy Garity with Tom Hayden.Openly admits to having undergone plastic surgery around her eyes and jawline because she "got tired of looking tired when I wasn't".Waitressed for a day in Lansing, Michigan in an effort to get press coverage for the One Fair Wage ballot measure.The suicide of her socialite mother Frances Ford Seymour was kept from her as a teenager, and she was told that she'd died of heart failure. Household newspaper and magazine subscriptions were canceled, and the staff and student body of Fonda's high school were instructed not to discuss the incident. Fonda learned the truth months later while leafing through a movie magazine in study hall.Supported the Indian occupation of Alcatraz, 1969-71, defying a Coast Guard blockade to deliver supplies to militants who'd taken over the island.Was born double-jointed.Ex-sister-in-law of Susan Brewer and H��l��ne Plemiannikov.Was offered the role of Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), but she turned it down. Louise Fletcher, who went on to win the Best Actress Oscar for her performance, was cast instead.Received an honorary degree from Emerson College. (May 15, 2000)Claimed, after the Oscar ceremony on April 9th, 1979, that the film The Deer Hunter (1978) was a racist film and that it presented the official version of the war in Vietnam.IQ of 132.Turned down the role of Lara Antipova in Doctor Zhivago (1965) because it was to be filmed primarily in Spain for nine months. She didn't want to be away from fianc�� Roger Vadim that long, but weeks later she changed her mind and informed her agent she wanted to do it. By then, Julie Christie had been signed to play Lara and the rest is history. Jane still says that of all the movies she's turned down in her career, Doctor Zhivago is the one she most regrets not doing.Only did Cat Ballou (1965) to fulfill contractual obligations, yet it turned out to be the movie that established her as a box office draw.Tom Hayden was worth just $50,000 when he married Fonda in 1973 and refused to sign the prenuptial agreement her lawyer had drawn up. Jane didn't want to upset him so she dropped the issue. Most of her future earnings went toward financing Hayden's lackluster political career, and in the couple's 1990 divorce settlement Hayden received an estimated $30 million under California's joint property law.In 1978, four years into recovery from bulimia nervosa, she also gave up smoking, an unhealthy habit that has resurfaced from time to time. As recently as 2015 paparazzi snapped her taking a drag at an outdoor caf�� in Paris.Said that Book Club (2018) is the most fun she's ever had on a movie and cited her co-star Don Johnson as the most attractive actor she's worked with.Visited Sweden in September 2006 to support political party FI (Feministic Initiative) in the national election.2019 recipient of the Producers Guild of America's Stanley Kramer Award for her activism and philanthropic work.Shortly after her divorce from Ted Turner, she announced she had become a born-again Christian. Speculations are that this may have played a part in their separation, since Ted Turner has expressed highly critical opinions on religion in general.In a relationship with veteran record producer Richard Perry since October 2008, the couple live together in Los Angeles.Her out-of-retirement movie, Monster-in-Law (2005) came out the same time as her autobiography, "My Life So Far" and the same time her workouts are re-released to DVD format in stores.The movie Swing Shift (1984) was originally written as a vehicle for Ms. Fonda. When her agent turned the movie down and Goldie Hawn took over, the project was rewritten as a partial comedy.Decided to become an actress after Greta Garbo told her she was "pretty enough" at a star-filled bash thrown by her dad on the French Riviera, circa 1957.Jane was mentioned on Sir Mix A Lot's 1992 hit single, "Baby Got Back".Protested alongside fellow actresses Sally Field and Christine Lahti, and playwright Eve Ensler urging the Mexican government to re-investigate the slayings of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juarez, on the Mexico-Texas border. (February 2004)Named for Henry VIII's third wife Jane Seymour, from whom her mother Frances maintained she was descended.Born on the same day Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) premiered.Was the first choice to play Maggie Dubois in The Great Race (1965), before Natalie Wood was cast.Her aerobics video Workout (1982) sold 17 million copies, making it the bestselling home video ever and her an icon of this form of exercises.She was a close friend of Gregory Peck and he frequently attended political rallies with her. |
| Name: |
Jane Fonda |
Type: |
Actress,Producer,Additional Crew (IMDB) |
| Area: |
All World |
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IMDB |
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Business scope: |
Actress,Producer,Additional Crew |
| Products for sale: |
Actress,Producer,Additional Crew |
| Model rank: |
74 |
| Last update: |
2024-07-01 02:55:44 |
| Height: |
5' 7' (1.70 m) |
| Biography: |
Born in New York City to legendary screen star Henry Fonda and Ontario-born New York socialite Frances Seymour Brokaw, Jane Seymour Fonda was destined early to an uncommon and influential life in the limelight. Although she initially showed little in |
| Trivia: |
Caught Ted Turner cheating one month after their wedding, prompting Fonda to hit him repeatedly with a car phone and pour a bottled beverage on his head.Arrested at Cleveland Airport, Ohio, after allegedly kicking patrolman Robert Pieper and customs agent Edward Matuszek in the groin and upper leg during their struggle to detain her upon finding 105 bottles containing some 2,000 capsules in her luggage. The star spent 10 hours in a cell at Cuyahoga County Jail and was released on $6,000 personal bond. A federal drug smuggling charge was dropped once the substances were identified as vitamins and prescribed amounts of Dexedrine, Valium and Compazine. For lack of evidence, a federal assault charge pressed by Matuszek was dropped too, since the supposed 'assault' occurred when he chased Fonda into the ladies room. Pieper filed a $100,000 personal injury lawsuit against her in civil court that was eventually dismissed at his attorney's request. (November 2, 1970)Breast cancer survivor.In 1984, her wealth, generated from acting, producing, and fitness videos was estimated at $50 million.With help of lawyers, she gained access to her late mother's medical records from the Austen Riggs Center in Massachusetts. The records showed that Frances Seymour had nine abortions before giving birth to Jane.She and her father Henry Fonda are the only father-daughter couple to receive Oscars for leading roles.Married Ted Turner on her birthday in 1991.Nominated for the 2009 Tony Award for Best Performance for a Leading Actress in a Play for "33 Variations".Was offered the role of Chris MacNeil in The Exorcist (1973).Participated in the Vancouver Greenpeace Rally along with roughly 5,500 others (including Rachel McAdams) to protest oil drilling in British Columbia. (June 13, 2015)Danced ballet until she broke her foot in her 40s.Had hip and knee replacements. Unrelated to her workout regimen, it is a genetic condition. Both her father and brother also had replacements.Jane now openly admits that she suffered from bulimia from ages 13 to 37. While modeling, she said she lived on cigarettes, coffee, speed, and strawberry yogurt.Has a maternal half-sister, Pan Corrias (1931-2008) and an adoptive sister, Amy Fishman (n��e Amy Fonda; b. 1953).A 1972 visit to Hanoi during the Vietnam war where Fonda campaigned in favor of the communist regime and the subsequent release of several photographs of her atop a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun used against American air crews earned her the nickname "Hanoi Jane." As a result of her visit to Hanoi and the accompanying photographs, many Americans continue to regard Fonda with general resentment and hostility to this day.Claims that when she is out of makeup she can easily go to public places without being recognized.Jane's appearance in On Golden Pond (1981) with dad Henry Fonda and son Troy Garity marked the only time three generations of Fondas appeared in the same film.Attended Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY. Her roommate was Lara Parker. Parker later co-starred with Jane's brother Peter Fonda in the film Race with the Devil (1975).Passed on the title role in Norma Rae (1979), which won a Best Actress Oscar for its eventual star Sally Field.She and Tom Hayden gave their son Troy Garity his paternal grandmother's last name for the sake of anonymity.Has a daughter, Vanessa Vadim with Roger Vadim, and a son, Troy Garity with Tom Hayden.Openly admits to having undergone plastic surgery around her eyes and jawline because she "got tired of looking tired when I wasn't".Waitressed for a day in Lansing, Michigan in an effort to get press coverage for the One Fair Wage ballot measure.The suicide of her socialite mother Frances Ford Seymour was kept from her as a teenager, and she was told that she'd died of heart failure. Household newspaper and magazine subscriptions were canceled, and the staff and student body of Fonda's high school were instructed not to discuss the incident. Fonda learned the truth months later while leafing through a movie magazine in study hall.Supported the Indian occupation of Alcatraz, 1969-71, defying a Coast Guard blockade to deliver supplies to militants who'd taken over the island.Was born double-jointed.Ex-sister-in-law of Susan Brewer and H��l��ne Plemiannikov.Was offered the role of Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), but she turned it down. Louise Fletcher, who went on to win the Best Actress Oscar for her performance, was cast instead.Received an honorary degree from Emerson College. (May 15, 2000)Claimed, after the Oscar ceremony on April 9th, 1979, that the film The Deer Hunter (1978) was a racist film and that it presented the official version of the war in Vietnam.IQ of 132.Turned down the role of Lara Antipova in Doctor Zhivago (1965) because it was to be filmed primarily in Spain for nine months. She didn't want to be away from fianc�� Roger Vadim that long, but weeks later she changed her mind and informed her agent she wanted to do it. By then, Julie Christie had been signed to play Lara and the rest is history. Jane still says that of all the movies she's turned down in her career, Doctor Zhivago is the one she most regrets not doing.Only did Cat Ballou (1965) to fulfill contractual obligations, yet it turned out to be the movie that established her as a box office draw.Tom Hayden was worth just $50,000 when he married Fonda in 1973 and refused to sign the prenuptial agreement her lawyer had drawn up. Jane didn't want to upset him so she dropped the issue. Most of her future earnings went toward financing Hayden's lackluster political career, and in the couple's 1990 divorce settlement Hayden received an estimated $30 million under California's joint property law.In 1978, four years into recovery from bulimia nervosa, she also gave up smoking, an unhealthy habit that has resurfaced from time to time. As recently as 2015 paparazzi snapped her taking a drag at an outdoor caf�� in Paris.Said that Book Club (2018) is the most fun she's ever had on a movie and cited her co-star Don Johnson as the most attractive actor she's worked with.Visited Sweden in September 2006 to support political party FI (Feministic Initiative) in the national election.2019 recipient of the Producers Guild of America's Stanley Kramer Award for her activism and philanthropic work.Shortly after her divorce from Ted Turner, she announced she had become a born-again Christian. Speculations are that this may have played a part in their separation, since Ted Turner has expressed highly critical opinions on religion in general.In a relationship with veteran record producer Richard Perry since October 2008, the couple live together in Los Angeles.Her out-of-retirement movie, Monster-in-Law (2005) came out the same time as her autobiography, "My Life So Far" and the same time her workouts are re-released to DVD format in stores.The movie Swing Shift (1984) was originally written as a vehicle for Ms. Fonda. When her agent turned the movie down and Goldie Hawn took over, the project was rewritten as a partial comedy.Decided to become an actress after Greta Garbo told her she was "pretty enough" at a star-filled bash thrown by her dad on the French Riviera, circa 1957.Jane was mentioned on Sir Mix A Lot's 1992 hit single, "Baby Got Back".Protested alongside fellow actresses Sally Field and Christine Lahti, and playwright Eve Ensler urging the Mexican government to re-investigate the slayings of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juarez, on the Mexico-Texas border. (February 2004)Named for Henry VIII's third wife Jane Seymour, from whom her mother Frances maintained she was descended.Born on the same day Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) premiered.Was the first choice to play Maggie Dubois in The Great Race (1965), before Natalie Wood was cast.Her aerobics video Workout (1982) sold 17 million copies, making it the bestselling home video ever and her an icon of this form of exercises.She was a close friend of Gregory Peck and he frequently attended political rallies with her. |
| Trademarks: |
Frequently plays women who are single, often due to problematic relationships
Lithe figure
Wore her hair in a distinctive, face-framing layered cut known as the Klute (1971) shag (Early 1970s) |
| Quotes: |
Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.
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I was terrified when I turned 30. I was pregnant and had the mumps and Faye Dunaway was just coming out in Bonnie and Clyde (1967). I thought, 'Oh my God, I'll never work again. I'm old!'
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"Acting with Laurence Harvey is like acting by yourself - only worse." - Jane Fonda on her 1962 film Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
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It hurt so many soldiers. It galvanised such hostility. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless. [expressing regret at her support for the Viet Cong]
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I, a Socialist, think we should strive toward a Socialist society, all the way to Communism. |
| Salaries: |
Stanley & Iris (1990) - $3,500,000
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Old Gringo (1989) - $4,000,000
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The Morning After (1986) - $2,000,000
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Agnes of God (1985) - $2,000,000
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The Dollmaker (1984) - |
| Job title: |
Actress,Producer,Additional Crew |
| Others works: |
In addition to Jane's original 1982 Workout video blockbuster, she went on to release more than 2 dozen workouts. Chronologically as follows: Pregnancy, Birth and Recovery Workout; Workout Challenge; Prime Time Workout; New Workout; Low Impact Aerobi |
| Spouse: |
Ted Turner (December 21, 1991 - May 22, 2001) (divorced)Tom Hayden (January 19, 1973 - June 10, 1990) (divorced, 2 children)Roger Vadim (August 14, 1965 - January 16, 1973) (divorced, 1 child) |
| Children: |
Vanessa VadimTroy Garity |
| Parents: |
Henry Fonda
Shirlee Fonda
Frances Seymour Fonda |
| Relatives: |
Peter Fonda (Sibling)
Bridget Fonda (Niece or Nephew)
Justin Fonda (Niece or Nephew)
Viva Vadim (Grandchild) |
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