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Jane Fonda
Jane Seymour Fonda is an American actress and activist. Fonda's work spans several genres and over seven decades of film and television. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards (Oscars), two British Academy Film Awards, eight Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for a Grammy Award and two Tony Awards. Fonda is also the recipient of…
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2026· 16 entries
“realize that [rape and abuse] is not our fault”
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“The image of Jane Fonda, Barbarella, Henry Fonda”
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“hypocrites and liars and pawns”
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“I am an actor, and I have no intention of allowing the political differences between us to color my portrayal of her. I will not be disrespectful.”
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“Donavan's commitment to the climate fight is personal. He grew up under Detroit's smokestacks & lives with the asthmatic cough he developed as a child. @donavanmckinney.bsky.social isn't going to let Detroit down; their fight is 𝘩𝘪𝘴 fight. I have his back & I hope you will too. JanePAC.com/Donavan”
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“On June 14th, Flag Day, which also happened to be Trump’s eightieth birthday, the Committee for the First Amendment (CFA) hosted an event at New York’s historic Town Hall: Rise Up! Sing Out! A Concert for the First Amendment. Continue reading at Jane Fonda Wellness: wellness.janefonda.com”
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The Guardian: ‘We’re coming for his ass’: Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro and Bette Midler target Trump at New York benefit concert
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“♥️ ATLANTA AND THE TURNERS "For twenty years—from 1990 to 2010—my residence was in Atlanta, Georgia." Read the full post: wellness.janefonda.com/p/atlanta-an...”
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Public attention spiked: 17,810 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.7× the usual 4,775, with 0 article edits.
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“We can either laugh through the tears or wallow in the madness. I choose JOY! I’m hosting #StandUpForClimate — a comedy show to save everything! Join me + @chelseahandler.bsky.social @tiffanyhaddish.bsky.social @pattonoswalt.bsky.social @iamwandasykes.bsky.social. Tickets 👉 janepac.com/comedy-jane”
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The Guardian: ‘Break your silence’: Jane Fonda leads rally against Trump crackdown on arts and media
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The Guardian: ‘I have more to say’: Jane Fonda questions why Barbra Streisand fronted Oscars tribute to Robert Redford
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“Friends in #Michigan, @esavit.bsky.social will be in your corner! As a law professor and prosecutor he's defended our environment from corporations and Donald Trump. Donate to help Eli win 👉 janepac.com/eli Big polluters won't be happy, but the 🌏 sure will.”
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“Minnesota is a bellwether for the future of democracy. @peggyflanagan.bsky.social has the spine, deep community roots & courage needed to take on the Trump Admin. She knows they're ransacking our communities & dismantling our future. She's ready to fight like hell as MN's Senator. JanePAC.com/peggy”
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It was announced that Fonda would be starring in the big screen adaptation of Virginia Evans' New York Times best-seller, The Correspondent
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2025· 5 entries
“CALIFORNIA! Tomorrow is election Day! 🗳️ Vote 'YES' on Prop 50! This is our documentary moment. Do we have what it takes to stand up and fight back? I know we do. PS: Thrilled to see two JanePAC climate champions working hard for this critical election. Planet protectors are DEMOCRACY protectors!”
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“Hollywood pumps the brakes on Toyota EMA, A prominent Hollywood climate group just dumped Toyota. Seems Toyota couldn’t get away with fooling the public this time! Toyota–we see your true colors. Stop blocking climate progress. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/hollywood-...”
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The Guardian: Jane Fonda relaunches free speech group backed by her father during the McCarthy era
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“💥 NEW CONTEST 💥 We're giving 5 lucky supporters a chance to win one of these exclusive posters signed by both Jane Fonda and Shepard Fairey!”
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“If you want to help elect more climate champions everywhere, please consider chipping in to support our work.”
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2024· 4 entries
The Guardian: Jane Fonda rallies disaffected young US voters: ‘Do not sit this election out’
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The Guardian: Julianne Moore, Jane Fonda and Emma Thompson among stars asking to ‘make nukes history’
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Snopes rated the claim “In late 2023, actor Jane Fonda said about the 2024 presidential elections, “If Trump wins, I’m moving to Canada.”” Unproven.
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It was met with immediate backlash from the region's large Vietnamese American community because it fell on the same day as what the diaspora call Black April, the day when Saigon fell to North Vietnamese forces; the day
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2023· 2 entries
The Guardian: Jane Fonda: French director asked to sleep with me to ‘see what my orgasms were like’ for a role
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Snopes rated the claim “Film actor and activist Jane Fonda said, "There'd be no climate crisis if it wasn't for racism."” Correct Attribution.
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2022· 2 entries
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AP News rated the claim “Jane Fonda used sign language during her best actress speech in 1979 because the Oscars wouldn't offer closed captions. The Oscars didn’t have closed captioning until 2021.” </span><span content-editable="">Partly </span><span content-editable="">false.
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In 2022, Fonda was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and that began chemotherapy treatments, expected to last six months.
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2021· 2 entries
Awarded Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award (2021).
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And the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2025
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2020· 2 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “In October 2020, actress Jane Fonda said the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic was "God's gift to the Left."” Correct Attribution.
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Awarded BBC 100 Women (2020).
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2019· 2 entries
PolitiFact rated the claim “Barbara Walters said Jane Fonda "betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during the Vietnam War."” False.
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Awarded Producers Guild Stanley Kramer Award (2019).
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2018· 2 entries
PolitiFact rated the claim “Barabara Walters wrote that Jane Fonda "betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during the Vietnam War."” False.
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Starred opposite Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen, and Candice Bergen in the romantic comedy film Book Club
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2017· 2 entries
Began selling merchandise with her mugshot image to benefit the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power & Potential
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“One of the great things the women”
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2016· 1 entry
Fonda voiced Shuriki in Elena and the Secret of Avalor
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2015· 1 entry
For which she earned a Golden Globe Award nomination
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2014· 2 entries
Awarded AFI Life Achievement Award (2014).
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That her mother, Frances Ford Seymour, was recurrently sexually abused as young as eight, and this may have led to her suicide when Jane was 12
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2013· 2 entries
Fonda had a small role in the Lee Daniels directed racial drama The Butler inspired by the life and career of White House butler Eugene Allen
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It was revealed that Fonda was one of approximately 1,600 Americans whose communications between 1967 and 1973 were monitored by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) as part of Project MINARET, a program that
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2012· 1 entry
Fonda began a recurring role as Leona Lansing, CEO of a major media company, in HBO's original political drama The Newsroom
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2009· 3 entries
Fonda returned to Broadway for the first time since 1963, playing Katherine Brandt in Moisés Kaufman's 33 Variations
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"I told them what [the vitamins] were but they said they were getting orders from the White House
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Returned to Broadway after 46-year absence from the stage, in 33 Variations, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, and released another five exercise videos between 2009 and 2012
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded California Hall of Fame (2008).
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2007· 1 entry
The AFI Life Achievement Award in 2014, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2017, the Cecil B
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2005· 2 entries
Fonda reiterated that she had no regrets about her trip to North Vietnam in 1972, with the exception of the anti-aircraft-gun photo
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Returned to the screen with the box office success Monster-in-Law, starring opposite Jennifer Lopez
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2004· 1 entry
In the mid-2000s, Fonda founded the Jane Fonda Foundation in 2004 with one million dollars of her own money as a charitable corporation with herself as president, chair, director, and secretary; Fonda contributes 10 hours each week on its behalf.
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2003· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Jane Fonda and Ted Turner were refused service in a restaurant run by a Vietnam War veteran.” False.
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2002· 1 entry
Bringing together founder Eve Ensler, Afghan women oppressed by the Taliban, and a Kenyan activist campaigning to save girls from genital mutilation
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2001· 3 entries
Established the Jane Fonda Center for Adolescent Reproductive Health, which aims to help prevent teen pregnancy
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And returned to screens with the hit comedy Monster-in-Law (2005)
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“s rights. The actress is an active supporter of the V-Day movement, which works to stop violence against women and girls. In 2001, she established the Jane Fonda Center for Adolescent Reproductive Health, which aims to help prevent teen pregnancy. She said she was”
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2000· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “During a trip to North Vietnam, Jane Fonda turned smuggled messages from U.S. POWs over to their captors.” False.
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (1994).
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1992· 1 entry
HWPC helped to elect a record-breaking number of women legislators, an achievement called the Year of the Woman
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1991· 2 entries
After three decades in film, Fonda retired from the film industry
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And retired from acting, following a row of commercially unsuccessful films concluded by Stanley & Iris (1990)
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1990· 1 entry
Starred in the romantic drama Stanley & Iris (1990) with Robert De Niro, which was her last film for 15 years
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1985· 1 entry
Renamed her production company, Fonda Films, because she felt the original name would sound like a real estate company
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for The Dollmaker (1984).
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1983· 1 entry
Entered into a non-exclusive agreement with movie production distributor Columbia Pictures, whereas she would star in or produce projects under her own banner Jayne Development Corporation, and she would develop offi
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1982· 2 entries
Fonda released her first exercise video, titled Jane Fonda's Workout, inspired by her best-selling book, Jane Fonda's Workout Book
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Released her first exercise video, Jane Fonda's Workout, which became the highest-selling VHS ever
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Crystal Award (1981).
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1980· 1 entry
Fonda starred in 9 to 5 with Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton
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1979· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for Coming Home (1979).
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With The China Syndrome, about a cover-up of a vulnerability in a nuclear power plant
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1978· 1 entry
Fonda was at a career peak after she won her second Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Sally Hyde, a conflicted adulteress in Coming Home, the story of a disabled Vietnam War veteran's difficulty in re-enteri
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1977· 2 entries
Portrayed the playwright Lillian Hellman in Julia, receiving positive reviews from critics
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“I believe that we cannot survive as a democratic country when we are supporting someone like Thieu in Saigon, who has put 300,000 political prisoners in jail because they've spoken in favor of peace. I just don't believe that when a Republican Party bugs the Democratic Party headquarters, that that smacks of democracy. These kind of things I speak out against. That doesn't mean I'm a Communist.”
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1973· 2 entries
In which he concluded that the dike system was intentionally targeted in the eastern region of the delta
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"I'm quite sure that there were incidents of torture
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1972· 3 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for Klute (1972).
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Fonda helped fund and organize the Indochina Peace Campaign, which continued to mobilize antiwar activists in the US after the 1973 Paris Peace Agreement, until 1975 when the United States withdrew from Vietnam
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Fonda starred as a reporter alongside Yves Montand in Tout Va Bien, directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin
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1971· 3 entries
Playing a high-priced call girl, the gamine Bree Daniels, in Alan J
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Fonda, Fred Gardner, and Donald Sutherland formed the FTA tour ("Free The Army", a play on the troop expression "Fuck The Army"), an antiwar road show designed as an answer to Bob Hope's USO tour
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And Fun with Dick and Jane in 1977, Fonda did not have a major film success
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1970· 3 entries
Fonda was arrested by authorities at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport on suspicion of drug trafficking
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Fonda appeared before an assembly at the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, to speak on G
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Fonda spoke out against the war at a rally organized by Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
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1969· 1 entry
Which was intended to call attention to the failures of the government with regard to treaty rights and the movement for greater Indigenous sovereignty
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1968· 1 entry
Played the title role in the science fiction spoof Barbarella, which established her status as a sex symbol
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1966· 1 entry
The February 1971 issue contained a full-page ad in support of the VVAW, and as a result "the VVAW was transformed into one of the most important actors in the antiwar movement"
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1961· 1 entry
Awarded Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year (1961).
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1960· 2 entries
Awarded Theatre World Award (1960).
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With Tall Story, in which she recreated one of her Broadway roles as a college cheerleader pursuing a basketball star, played by Anthony Perkins
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1958· 2 entries
Met Lee Strasberg; the meeting changed the course of her life
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“I went to the Actors Studio and Lee Strasberg told me I had talent. Real talent. It was the first time that anyone, except my father – who had to say so – told me I was good. At anything. It was a turning point in my life. I went to bed thinking about acting. I woke up thinking about acting. It was like the roof had come off my life!”
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1954· 1 entry
While appearing with her father in a charity performance of The Country Girl at the Omaha Community Playhouse
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1950· 1 entry
When Fonda was 12, her mother died by suicide while undergoing treatment at Craig House psychiatric hospital in Beacon, New York
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1937· 2 entries
At Doctors Hospital in Yorkville, Manhattan, in New York City
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Born 1937-12-21.
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