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Jane Seymour Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an American actress and activist. Recognized as a film icon, Fonda's work spans several genres and over six decades of film and television. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the AFI Life Achievement 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) before receiving her first Oscar nomination for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969). Fonda then established herself as one of the most acclaimed actresses of her generation, winning the Academy Award for Best Actress twice in the '70s, for Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978). Her other nominations are 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 the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for the television film The Dollmaker (1984). In 1982, Fonda released her first exercise video, Jane Fonda's Workout, which became the highest-selling videotape of its time. It was the first of 22 such videos over the next 13 years, which collectively sold over 17 million copies. After starring in Stanley & Iris (1990), Fonda took a hiatus from acting and returned with the comedy Monster-in-Law (2005). She also returned to Broadway in the play 33 Variations (2009), earning a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play nomination. She has since starred in the independent films Youth (2015) and Our Souls at Night (2017) and on Netflix's comedy series Grace and Frankie (2015–2022), for which she earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. Fonda was a political activist in the counterculture era during the Vietnam War. She was photographed sitting on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun on a 1972 visit to Hanoi, during which she gained the nickname "Hanoi Jane". During this time, she was effectively blacklisted in Hollywood. She has also protested the Iraq War and violence against women and describes herself as a feminist and environmental activist. In 2005, along with Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem, she cofounded the Women's Media Center, an organization that works to amplify the voices of women in the media through advocacy, media and leadership training, and the creation of original content. Fonda serves on the board of the organization. Based in Los Angeles, she has lived all over the world, including six years in France and 20 in Atlanta. Early life and education Jane Seymour Fonda was born via caesarean section on December 21, 1937, at Doctors Hospital in New York City. Her parents were Canadian-born socialite Frances Ford Seymour and American actor Henry Fonda. According to her father, the surname Fonda came from an Italian ancestor who immigrated to the Netherlands in the 1500s. There, he intermarried; the resultant family began to use Dutch given names, with Jane's first Fonda ancestor reaching New York in 1650. Fonda also has English, French, and Scottish ancestry. She was named for the third wife of Henry VIII, Jane Seymour, to whom she is distantly related on her mother's side, and because of whom, until she was in fourth grade, Fonda said she was called "Lady" (as in Lady Jane). Her brother, Peter Fonda, was also an actor, and her maternal half-sister is Frances de Villers Brokaw (also known as "Pan"), whose daughter is Pilar Corrias, the owner of the Pilar Corrias Gallery in London. In 1950, when Fonda was 12, her mother died by suicide while undergoing treatment at Craig House psychiatric hospital in Beacon, New York. Later that year, Henry Fonda married socialite Susan Blanchard, 23 years his junior; this marriage ended in divorce. Aged 15, Jane taught dance at Fire Island Pines, New York. Fonda attended Greenwich Academy in Greenwich, Connecticut; the Emma Willard School in Troy, New York; and Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Before her acting career, she was a model and appeared twice on the cover of Vogue. Fonda became interested in the arts in 1954, while appearing with her father in a charity performance of The Country Girl at the Omaha Community Playhouse. After dropping out of Vassar, she went to Paris for six months to study art. Upon returning to the US, in 1958, she met Lee Strasberg; the meeting changed the course of her life. Fonda said, "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!" Career 1960s Fonda's stage work in the late 1950s laid the foundation for her film career in the 1960s. She averaged almost two movies a year throughout the decade, starting in 1960 with Tall Story, in which she recreated one of her Broadway roles as a college cheerleader pursuing a basketball star, played by Anthony Perkins. Period of Adjustment and Walk on the Wild Side followed in 1962. In Walk on the Wild Side, Fonda played a prostitute, and earned a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer. In 1963, she starred in Sunday in New York. Newsday called her "the loveliest and most gifted of all our new young actresses". However, she also had detractors – in the same year, the Harvard Lampoon named her the "Year's Worst Actress" for The Chapman Report. Her next two pictures, Joy House and Circle of Love (both 1964), were made in France; with the latter, Fonda became one of the first American film stars to appear nude in a foreign movie. She was offered the coveted role of Lara in Doctor Zhivago, but turned it down because she didn't want to go on location for nine months. Fonda's career breakthrough came with Cat Ballou (1965), in which she played a schoolmarm-turned-outlaw. This comedy Western received five Oscar nominations, with Lee Marvin winning best actor, and was one of the year's top ten films at the box office. It was considered by many to have been the film that brought Fonda to bankable stardom. The following year, she had a starring role in The Chase opposite Robert Redford, in their first film together, with two-time Oscar winner M.... Discover the Jane Fonda popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Jane Fonda books.
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The French Cookery School
Caroline JamesPreorder the brand new romcom from top 5 bestseller Caroline James!‘Girl power for the over sixties!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐About the authorCaroline James is the bestselling author of The Cruise. S...
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Jane Fonda American Actress
Dr. Heady DelpakJane Fonda truly is the definition of Hollywood royalty. The 80yearold actress may be the daughter of legendary actor Henry Fonda, but Jane has paved her own way in the entertainme...
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The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village
Joanna NellJoanna Nell's lifeaffirming debut is a moving, funny, heartwarming tale of love and community in the spirit of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Grace and FrankieThe life o...
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A Rift in the Earth
James RestonA Distinguished and Bestselling Historian and Army Veteran Revisits the Culture War that Raged around the Selection of Maya Lin's Design for the Vietnam Memorial A Rift in the Eart...
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Jane Fonda
Fred Lawrence GuilesJane Fonda has been in the public eye since birth; just being Henry’s daughter qualified her for celebrity status. However, her intelligence and talent compelled her to reach beyon...
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Fifty Hats that Changed the World
DESIGN MUSEUM ENTERPRISE LTDEverything around us is designed and the word 'design' has become part of our everyday experience. But how much do we know about it? Fifty Hats That Changed the World imparts that ...
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GuRu
RuPaulFOREWORD BY JANE FONDAA timeless collection of philosophies from renaissance performer and the world’s most famous shapeshifter RuPaul, whose sage outlook has created an unpreceden...
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Note to Self
Gayle KingIn this New York Times bestseller, Gayle King collects her favorite inspiring letters from the popular CBS This Morning segment Note to Self, in which twentyfirst century luminarie...
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Jane Fonda
Amanda Gibson & Kelsey DameGet inside the head of Jane Fonda: actress, political activist, environmentalist, philanthropist, and creator of an unlikely fitness empire that captivated the country beginning in...
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Hank and Jim
Scott Eyman“[A] remarkably absorbing, supremely entertaining joint biography” (The New York Times) from bestselling author Scott Eyman about the remarkable friendship of Henry Fonda and James...
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The Last Voyage of Mrs Henry Parker
Joanna NellAs the wife of retired ship's doctor Dr Henry Parker, Evelyn is living out her twilight years aboard the Golden Sunset. Every night she dresses for dinner gown, tiara, runners an...
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The Spa Break
Caroline James‘Fabulous to read…It’s about a girls’ weekend with characters in their 60s and determined to have a good time’ Woman & Home ‘A laugh out loud, naughty, enlightening heartwarmin...
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The Cruise
Caroline James‘Girl power for the over sixties!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Three women.One widowed.One unmarried.One almost divorced.All aged 63, but not ready to give up on life!Leaving behind the heartache, guilt ...
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Killing Jane Fonda
C.L. LucasJuly 1972: When Jane Fonda allowed a photographer to catch her astride the gunner’s seat of a North Vietnamese Antiaircraft gun, she sparked the fury of American veterans for a gen...
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Voices of Powerful Women
Zoë SallisAn empowering collection of interviews with 40 successful and inspiring women throughout historyincluding Maya Angelou and Jane Fondaas they reflect on their challenges and achieve...
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The Man Who Saw a Ghost
Devin McKinneyThe first major biography of the iconic actor Henry Fonda, a story of stardom, manhood, and the American characterHenry Fonda's performancesin The Grapes of Wrath, Young Mr. Lincol...
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Films of Endearment
Michael KoreskyAn Esquire Best Book About HollywoodA USA TODAY Best Book of 2021“A lovely and loving book.”Will Schwalbe, New York Times bestselling author of The End of Your Life Book ...
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Union Street
Pat Barker'Vivid, bawdy and bitter' THE TIMES 'A firstrate first novel . . . pungent, raunchy dialogue . . . passages of fine understated wit' IVAN GOLD, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Pat Barke...
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Be More Dolly
Alice GomerDo you ever find yourself:Tumblin’ out of bed and stumblin’ to the kitchen?Searchin’ for a cup of ambition?Sighin’ and groanin’ at the mundanity of life?We could all do with a bit ...
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Jacques Tati
David BellosThe full story of one of France's greatest cinema legends, a clown whose filmmaking innovation was to turn everyday life into an art form.Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot, unmistakabl...
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The Butler
Wil HaygoodThis mesmerizing companion book to the awardwinning film, The Butler traces the Civil Rights Movement and explores crucial moments of twentieth century American history through the...
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Jane Fonda
Patricia Bosworth“The definitive portrait of a woman conflicted, torn between ferocious ambition, family, and feminist causes” (Gail Sheehy, author of Passages). Jane Fonda emerged from a he...
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Everybody Thought We Were Crazy
Mark RozzoNational Bestseller"A landmark and longoverdue cultural history." VogueThe stylish, wild story of the marriage of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Haywarda tale of love, art, Hollywood, an...
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Dynamic Dames
Sloan De Forest, Julie Newmar & Turner Classic MoviesCelebrate 50 of the most empowering and unforgettable female characters ever to grace the screen, as well as the artists who brought them to vibrant life!From Scarlett O'Hara to Th...
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The CIA
Hugh WilfordA celebrated historian of US intelligence uncovers how the CIA became the foremost defender of America’s covert global empire As World War II ended, the United States stood as the ...
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Our Gen
Diane McKinney-Whetstone“Our Gen is warm and smart, accessible yet meaningful, a beach read with strong writing and emotional heft.”BookPageResidents of an activeliving retirement community revert to live...
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Das Zeitalter der Fitness
Jürgen MartschukatDie Geschichte des Körpers im Neoliberalismus – wie Fitness zur Signatur der Moderne wurde. Wer nicht fit ist, ist irgendwie außen vor. Und wer dick ist, erst recht. Unsere Körper ...
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Fifty Bags that Changed the World
DESIGN MUSEUM ENTERPRISE LTDEverything around us is designed and the word 'design' has become part of our everyday experience. But how much do we know about it? Fifty Bags That Changed the World imparts that ...
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The Spiritual Meaning of the Sixties
Tobias ChurtonUnveils the spiritual meaning that fueled the artistic, political, and social revolutions of the 1960s Investigates the spiritual principles that informed everything from the civi...
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The Great Escape from Woodlands Nursing Home
Joanna NellThe joyous, charming and utterly irresistible new novel from the author of megabestseller The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement VillageAt nearly ninety, retired nature writer H...