Jane Fonda's Biography
Jane Fonda was born on 21 December 1937 in New York. She is the daughter of Henry Fonda, with whom she co-starred in On Golden Pond (1981), and Frances Seymour Brokaw, who committed suicide when Jane Fonda was 12. Jane's brother, Peter Fonda, was also to attempt suicide later in life.
Like many famous actors, such as Marlon Brando and James Dean, Jane Fonda studied at Lee Strasberg's Actors' Studio.
Jane Fonda made her film debut in Joshua Logan's 'Tall Story' (1960) and then had several supporting roles before, at the age of 25, she moved to France.
There, Fonda met director Roger Vadim, former husband of Brigitte Bardot. They married in 1967, and a year later she appeared in his film, Barbarella. Before that Jane Fonda had appeared in Vadim's La Ronde (1964), and she became the first leading American actress to appear nude in a foreign film.
After remarrying Tom Hayden, she turned in some of her best screen performances, for example, in 'They Shoot Horses Don't They?' (1969), and 'Klute' (1971), for which she received one of her two Academy Awards (the other was for 'Coming Home').
Jane Fonda was a vigorous opponent of the USA's involvement in Vietnam and in a 1972 visit to the North Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, Fonda was pictured at an anti-aircraft battery. In the same year she said: "I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman."
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