Jane Fonda
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1937-12-21 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
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
Acting
(2025)
Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty
as Self
(2025)
Sally
as Self (archive footage)
(2024)
This Is Me…Now
as Sagittarius
(2024)
(2024)
(2024)
My Way
as Narrator (voice)
(2023)
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
as Grandmamah (voice)
(2023)
Moving On
as Claire
(2023)
Book Club: The Next Chapter
as Vivian
(2023)
80 for Brady
as Trish
(2023)
Barbarella Forever
as Self
(2023)
Thriller 40
as Self (archive footage)
(2023)
Bad Luck Spot!
as Babe the Dragon (voice)
(2023)
The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane
as Herself
(2023)
Sex on Screen
as Self
(2023)
The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
(2022)
Luck
as Dragon (voice)
(2022)
Still Working 9 to 5
as Self
(2022)
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
as Self (archive footage)
(2022)
(2022)
(2022)
Body Parts
as Self
(2022)
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
as Self (archive footage)
(2021)
A Journey to Sundance
as Self
(2021)
Yearly Departed
as Self
(2021)
(2021)
We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
(2021)
Stoner Cats
as Ms. Stoner
(2020)
(2020)
Waging Change
as Self
(2020)
Citizen Jane Fonda
as Self
(2020)
Delphine and Carole
as Self (archive footage)
(2019)
(2019)
Hal
as Self
(2019)
Dolly Parton: Here I Am
as Self
(2019)
(2019)
(2019)
(2019)
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
as Self
(2019)
(2018)
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
as Self
(2018)
Book Club
as Vivian
(2018)
(2017)
Our Souls at Night
as Addie Moore
(2017)
Elena of Avalor: Realm of the Jaquins
as Shuriki (voice)
(2017)
(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)
Fathers and Daughters
as Theodora
(2015)
Youth
as Brenda Morel
(2015)
Women He's Undressed
as Self
(2014)
This Is Where I Leave You
as Hillary Altman
(2014)
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self - Interviewee
(2014)
Olga
as Self
(2014)
Better Living Through Chemistry
as Pharmacy Customer
(2014)
The (Dead Mothers) Club
as Self
(2013)
The Butler
as Nancy Reagan
(2012)
All Together
as Jeanne
(2012)
La Classe américaine
as Self
(2011)
Peace, Love & Misunderstanding
as Grace
(2011)
Miss Representation
as Self
(2011)
(2011)
(2010)
Beautiful Darling
as Self (archive footage)
(2010)
(2010)
(2008)
Dominick Dunne: After the Party
as Self (archive footage)
(2008)
(2007)
Georgia Rule
as Georgia Randall
(2007)
Brando
as Self
(2007)
(2007)
(2006)
(2006)
Beautiful Daughters
as Self
(2005)
Monster-in-Law
as Viola Fields
(2005)
(2005)
Sir! No Sir!
as Self
(2004)
Tell Them Who You Are
as Self
(2004)
(2004)
(2003)
Complicated Women
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2002)
Searching for Debra Winger
as Self
(1997)
(1995)
(1994)
A Century of Cinema
as Self
(1994)
Yoga Exercise Workout
as Self
(1992)
Fonda on Fonda
as Self - Host
(1992)
(1990)
The Earth Day Special
as Hellen
(1990)
Stanley & Iris
as Iris King
(1990)
Night of 100 Stars III
as Self
(1989)
Old Gringo
as Harriet Winslow
(1988)
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
as Self
(1988)
(1987)
Leonard Part 6
as Jane Fonda (uncredited)
(1987)
Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star
as Self (archive footage)
(1987)
Jane Fonda's Sports Aid
as Self
(1986)
The Making of Captain EO
as Self
(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
(1985)
Jane Fonda's New Workout
as Self
(1985)
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
as Self - Host
(1984)
(1984)
The Dollmaker
as Gertie Nevels
(1984)
I Love Quincy
as Self
(1983)
Montgomery Clift
as Self
(1983)
Workout Challenge
as Self
(1982)
I Love Liberty
as Self
(1982)
Workout
as Self
(1982)
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
(1982)
(1982)
Lily for President?
as Judy Bernly
(1981)
Rollover
as Lee Winters
(1981)
Lily: Sold Out
as Wanda
(1981)
On Golden Pond
as Chelsea Thayer Wayne
(1981)
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
as Self
(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)
California Suite
as Hannah Warren
(1978)
Coming Home
as Sally Hyde
(1978)
Comes a Horseman
as Ella Connors
(1977)
Julia
as Lillian Hellman
(1977)
Fun with Dick and Jane
as Jane Harper
(1976)
The Blue Bird
as The Night
(1975)
Anna
as Self (uncredited)
(1974)
Introduction to the Enemy
as Self
(1974)
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1973)
Steelyard Blues
as Iris Caine
(1973)
A Doll's House
as Nora Helmer
(1973)
Jane
as Self - Interviewee
(1972)
FTA
as Self
(1972)
Tout Va Bien
as Her, Suzanne
(1972)
(1971)
Klute
as Bree Daniels
(1971)
'Klute' in New York
as Self
(1970)
(1969)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
as Gloria Beatty
(1968)
Spirits of the Dead
as Contessa Frederique de Metzengerstein (segment "Metzengerstein")
(1968)
Barbarella
as Barbarella
(1967)
Barefoot in the Park
as Corie Bratter
(1967)
Hurry Sundown
as Julie Ann Warren
(1966)
The Chase
as Anna Reeves
(1966)
The Game Is Over
as Renée Saccard
(1966)
Any Wednesday
as Ellen Gordon
(1965)
Cat Ballou
as Catherine 'Cat' Ballou
(1964)
Joy House
as Melinda
(1964)
Circle of Love
as Sophie
(1964)
Filmmaking on the Riviera
as Self
(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)
The Chapman Report
as Kathleen Barclay
(1962)
Period of Adjustment
as Isabel Haverstick
(1961)
A String of Beads
as Gloria Winters
(1960)
Tall Story
as June Ryder
Crew
(2024)
Norita
Executive Producer
(1988)
(1972)
FTA
Writer, Producer
(1972)
Nationtime
Producer