Jane Fonda

Highest Rated: 100% Cat Ballou (1965)

Lowest Rated: 9% Leonard Part 6 (1987)

Birthday: Dec 21, 1937

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

Hollywood legend has it that Bette Davis was forced to talk to a blank wall rather than her co-star Henry Fonda during filming of her close-ups in Jezebel; the reason was that he had repaired to New York to attend the birth of his daughter Jane. A child of privilege, the young Jane Fonda exhibited the imperious, headstrong attitude and ruthlessness that would distinguish both her film work and her private life. The teenage Fonda wasn't keen on acting until she worked with her father in a 1954 Omaha Community Theatre production of The Country Girl. Slightly interested in pursuing a stage career at that point, Fonda nonetheless studied art both at Vassar and in Europe, returning to the States to work as a fashion model. Studying acting in earnest at Lee Strasberg's Actors' Studio, Fonda ultimately starred on Broadway in Tall Story, then made her film debut by re-creating this stage appearance in 1960. A talented but not really distinctive player at that time, Fonda astonished everyone (none as much as her father) by becoming one of the first major American actresses to appear nude in a foreign film. This was La Ronde (1964), directed by her lover (and later her first husband) Roger Vadim. The event was heralded by a giant promotional poster in New York's theater district, with Fonda's naked backside in full view for all of Manhattan to see. Vadim decided to mold Fonda into a "sex goddess" in a series of lush but forgettable films; the best Fonda/Vadim collaboration was Barbarella (1968), which scored as much on the actress' sharp comic timing (already evidenced in such American pictures as Cat Ballou [1965]) as it did on her kinky costuming. In the late '60s, Fonda underwent another career metamorphosis when she became involved in the anti-Vietnam War movement. Her notorious visit to North Vietnam at the height of the conflict earned her the sobriquet "Hanoi Jane," as well as the enmity of virtually every ex-GI who fought in Southeast Asia. Even so, Fonda's film stardom ascended in the early '70s; in 1971, she won the first of two Oscars for her portrayal of a high-priced prostitute in Klute (her other was for Coming Home [1978]), and Fonda's career flourished despite a sub-rosa Hollywood campaign to discredit the actress and spread idiotic rumors about her subversive behavior (one widely circulated fabrication had Fonda destroying the only existing negative of Stagecoach because she despised John Wayne).In the 1980s, the actress realized several personal and career milestones: she worked with her father on film for the only time in On Golden Pond (1981); she assisted former peace activist Tom Hayden, whom she had married in the early '70s, in his successful bid for the California State Assembly; and she launched the first of several best-selling exercise videos. She also won an Emmy for her performance in the TV movie The Dollmaker (1984). After her marriage to Hayden ended in the early '80s, Fonda married media mogul Ted Turner in 1991 (the couple would divorce in 2000), and began curtailing her film appearances, all but retiring from the screen after her lead role opposite Robert De Niro in 1990s Stanley & Iris. Fonda was no less the social activist in the 1990s than she was two decades earlier; among her projects was the production of several "revisionist" dramatic specials and documentaries about the history of Native Americans, duly telecast on Turner's various worldwide cable services.Just when it seemed audiences might have seen the last of Fonda on the big screen, she proved that she had no intention of retiring. The 2000's would see the veteran actress continuing to star in a vareity of projects, like Monster-in-Law, Georgia Rule, and Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding.

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Filmography

Movies

		Credit
No Score Yet	Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives	Actor	—	2019
54%	Book Club	Vivian	—	2018
80%	Feminists: What Were They Thinking?	Actor	—	2018
No Score Yet	Elena of Avalor: Song of the Sirenas	Shuriki	—	2018
96%	Jane Fonda in Five Acts	Actor	—	2018
90%	Our Souls at Night	Addie Moore	—	2017
28%	Fathers And Daughters	Teddy Stanton	—	2016
No Score Yet	Elena and the Secret of Avalor	Shuriki	—	2016
72%	Youth	Brenda Morel	$1.9M	2015
43%	This Is Where I Leave You	Hilary Altman	$26.8M	2014
No Score Yet	The Club	Actor	—	2014
22%	Better Living Through Chemistry	Actor	$52.3K	2014
No Score Yet	The (Dead Mothers) Club	Actor	—	2014
No Score Yet	Jane	Actor	—	2014
72%	Lee Daniels' The Butler	Nancy Reagan	$116.7M	2013
68%	All Together	Jeanne	$19K	2012
30%	Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding	Grace	$0.6M	2012
No Score Yet	Jane Fonda: Prime Time - Walk Out	Actor Executive Producer	—	2010
No Score Yet	Jane Fonda: Prime Time - Fit & Strong	Actor	—	2010
No Score Yet	You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story	Actor	—	2008
18%	Georgia Rule	Georgia	$18.9M	2007
No Score Yet	Brando	Actor	—	2007
89%	Sir! No Sir!	Actor	—	2006
18%	Monster-in-Law	Viola Fields	$82.9M	2005
88%	Tell Them Who You Are	Actor	—	2005
No Score Yet	Until the Violence Stops	Actor	—	2003
80%	Searching for Debra Winger	Actor	—	2002
No Score Yet	Academy Award Winners, The First 50 Years: Volume 10 - Hollywood Comes to Age	Actor	—	1994
No Score Yet	Fonda on Fonda	Host	—	1992
33%	Stanley & Iris	Iris Estelle King	—	1990
No Score Yet	Mandela in America	Actor	—	1990
42%	Old Gringo	Harriet Winslow	—	1989
9%	Leonard Part 6	Herself	—	1987
71%	The Morning After	Alex Sternbergen	—	1986
43%	Agnes of God	Doctor Martha Livingston	—	1985
No Score Yet	We Are the World: The Video Event	Actor	—	1985
No Score Yet	We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song	Actor	—	1985
57%	Terror in the Aisles	Actor	—	1984
No Score Yet	The Dollmaker	Gertie Nevels	—	1984
75%	Rollover	Lee Winters	—	1981
93%	On Golden Pond	Chelsea Thayer Wayne	—	1981
82%	9 to 5	Judy Bernly	—	1980
No Score Yet	No Nukes	Actor	—	1980
62%	The Electric Horseman	Alice `Hallie' Martin	—	1979
84%	The China Syndrome	Kimberly Wells	—	1979
57%	California Suite	Hannah Warren	—	1978
70%	Comes a Horseman	Ella Connors	—	1978
82%	Coming Home	Sally Hyde	—	1978
No Score Yet	The AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards: Henry Fonda	Actor	—	1978
74%	Julia	Lillian Hellman	—	1977
54%	Fun with Dick and Jane	Jane	—	1977
No Score Yet	The Blue Bird	Night	—	1976
50%	Tout va bien	Her, Suzanne	—	1973
60%	Steelyard Blues	Iris Caine	—	1973
No Score Yet	F.T.A.	Producer Actor Screenwriter	—	1972
No Score Yet	Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (Lettre à Jane)	Actor	—	1972
94%	Klute	Bree Daniels	—	1971
82%	They Shoot Horses, Don't They?	Gloria	—	1969
90%	Spirits of the Dead	Contessa Frederique de Metzengerstein	—	1969
73%	Barbarella	Barbarella	—	1968
25%	Hurry Sundown	Julie Ann Warren	—	1967
No Score Yet	The Game Is Over	Renee Saccard	—	1967
83%	Barefoot in the Park	Corie Bratter	—	1967
No Score Yet	Any Wednesday	Ellen Gordon	—	1966
83%	The Chase	Anna Reeves	—	1966
100%	Cat Ballou	Catherine 'Cat' Ballou	—	1965
No Score Yet	Circle of Love	Sophie / Die 'Junge Frau'	—	1964
No Score Yet	Les Felins	Melinda	—	1964
No Score Yet	Joy House (Les Félins)	Actor	—	1964
100%	Sunday in New York	Eileen Tyler	—	1963
No Score Yet	In the Cool of the Day	Christine Bonner	—	1963
67%	Period of Adjustment	Isabel Haverstick	—	1962
No Score Yet	The Chapman Report	Kathleen Barclay	—	1962
No Score Yet	Walk on the Wild Side	Kitty Twist	—	1962
No Score Yet	Tall Story	June Ryder	—	1960

TV

		Credit
No Score Yet	The Late Show With Stephen Colbert 2015	Guest	2020 2018 2017 2016
89%	Grace and Frankie 2015	Producer Executive Producer Grace Grace	2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
No Score Yet	The Late Late Show With James Corden 2015-2019	Guest	2019 2017 2016 2015
No Score Yet	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 2014	Guest	2019 2018 2016 2015
No Score Yet	Jimmy Kimmel Live 2003	Guest	2019 2014 2011
40%	Norm Macdonald Has a Show 2018	Appearing	2018
No Score Yet	Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen 2009-2019	Guest	2018
No Score Yet	Today 2017	Guest	2018 2017
No Score Yet	Elena of Avalor 2016	Voice	2018 2016
No Score Yet	The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2003	Guest	2018 2017 2016
No Score Yet	The Talk 2010	Guest	2018 2014 2011
No Score Yet	The Graham Norton Show 2007	Guest	2017
No Score Yet	The View 1997	Guest	2017 2014 2012
No Score Yet	Real Time with Bill Maher 2003	Guest	2017 2005
No Score Yet	Late Night With Seth Meyers 2014	Guest	2015
No Score Yet	Variety Studio: Actors on Actors 2015	Guest	2015
No Score Yet	Charlie Rose 2013-2017	Guest	2014
No Score Yet	Conan 2010	Guest	2014
85%	The Simpsons 1989	Voice	2014
58%	The Newsroom 2012-2014	Leona Lansing	2014 2013 2012
No Score Yet	CBS This Morning 2012	Guest	2013
No Score Yet	Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 2009-2014	Guest	2013 2010
No Score Yet	Late Show With David Letterman 1993-2015	Guest	2012
No Score Yet	Sunday Morning 2011-2018	Appearing	2012
No Score Yet	The Conversation With Amanda de Cadenet 2012	Guest	2012
No Score Yet	The Dr. Oz Show 2009	Guest	2011
No Score Yet	The Tonight Show With Jay Leno 1992-2014	Guest	2010
No Score Yet	Colbert Report 2005-2014	Guest	2007
No Score Yet	60 Minutes 1999	Appearing	2005
45%	The Academy Awards 1978		1986

QUOTES FROM Jane Fonda CHARACTERS

Judy Bernly says: (to her ex-husband) Hit the road, buster, this is where you get off!

Judy Bernly says: Hit the road, buster, this is where you get off!

Grace says: See sometimes, sometimes in art like in life you have to accept the fact that your things aren't, aren't going right and you don't quite know where you are going and you have to, have to accept that because that's when transformation can happen.

Cat Ballou says: Some gang! An Indian ranch hand, a drunken gunfighter, a sex maniac, and an uncle!

Bree Daniels says: I just can't stay in the city, you know? Maybe I'll come back. You'll probably see me next week.

Grace says: It's difficult for kids to accept that their parents are human.

Barbarella says: What are you smoking?

Pipe-smoking girl says: Essence of man, darling.

Rachel says: try to jerk me around grandma

Rachel says: Try and jerk me around, Grandma.

Georgia says: GO FUCK YOURSELF!

Georgia says: Go fuck yourself.

Barbarella says: Life without cause is life without effect. - Dildano

Dildano says: A life without cause is a life without effect.

Iris King says: Stanley, are you proposing to me?

Stanley Everett Cox says: I suppose I am.

Iris King says: You know what you're taking on? There were seven visits to the doctor last year, five to the dentist, and winter coats,summer coats, tennis shoes. We're a noisy family, Stanley. We've got a lot of arguments, baby crying, a lot of TV. You sure you wanna take this on?

Stanley Everett Cox says: I'm here.

Bree Daniels says: And for an hour, for an hour -- I'm the best actress in the world...

Chelsea Thayer Wayne says: Billy: I heard ya turned 80 today. Norman: That what ya heard? Billy: Man, that's....really old Norman: You should meet my father! Billy: Your father's still alive? Norman: No, but you should meet himk!