Jane Seymour Fonda (natural December 21, 1937) is an Academy Award-winning American actress, model, writer, producer, and political militant.

Fonda, world health organization sleep in Atlanta, Georgia, describes herself as a liberal and a "feminist Christian."

Early years
Jane Fonda was innate around New York City. She is the girl of Henry Fonda and socialite Frances Brokaw (née Seymour). She was known as when Jane Seymour, the third married woman of King Henry VIII of England.

Fonda's mother, Frances, was a 2nd of Henry Fonda's 5 married woman, & was at one time married to millionaire George Brokaw, the sometime hubby of writer Clare Boothe Luce. She committed suicide inside October 1950, when Fondthe was just 12 years old, when voluntarily shopping for professional assistance at a mental health facility.

Acting career
Fonda foremost became concerned withwithin acting in 1954 while appearing with her father around the charity performance of The Country Girl, at the Omaha Community Theatre. When attending Vassar College in New York, she was introduced to Lee Strasberg by her father in 1958, and joined his Actors Studio.

Her stage act in the late 1950s laid the foundation for an telling film career that began in the 1960s. She averaged virtually ii pic a year throughout a decade, starting inside 1960 by having Tall Story, with Fondthe recreating one of her Broadway roles—the college cheerleader pursuing a basketball star, played by Anthony Perkins. Period of Adjustment and Walk on the Wild Side (1962) were followed by Sunday in New York a year later. Critics began to require notice. Hike on the Uncivilized Side, where Fondthe played the bawd, earned her a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer. When Newsday called her "the loveliest and most gifted of all our new young actresses," she as well experienced her depreciator: inside 1963 the Harvard Lampoon named her "Year's Worst Actress." Fonda's large-screen breakthrough was within Cat Ballou (1965), in which she played the mistress off malefactor. A comedy American received 5 Oscar nominations & was one of a month's top x films at a pack professional. It manufactured her an constituted star at age twenty-xxviii. Fallowing Any Wednesday (1966) and Barefoot in the Park (1967) with Robert Redford, came a dazzling Barbarella (1968), which brought her status as a leading female sex symbol. Within direct contrast, a tragical ''They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) won her critical acclaim. She received the foremost of what would become a life amount of sevener Oscar nominations. She won her 1st Academy Award for Best Actress in 1971 for Klute, and another around 1978 for Coming Home''.

Fonda's activism con to the Vietnam War affected her acting career. Nonetheless, when her role in the unsuccessful The Blue Bird, Fonda had an unexpected comeback by using a 1976 comedy Fun With Dick and Jane. Fonda claimed she would single produce films which focused in significant issues, & she usually stuck to her word. She turned down An Unmarried Woman because she felt the a portion was non relevant. Her career before long revived by having popular & successful films like The China Syndrome (1979, about the out of sight accident within the nuclear power plant) and Nine to Five (1980) in which she played a meek grass widow reentering the work force. Although cast as a supporting actress to Katharine Hepburn, On Golden Pond (1982) brought Fonda a degree of profits & portable satisfaction. She experienced hanker wanted to act by having her father, hoping it would assist their every now and again strained relationship. In Golden Pond brought Henry Fonda his number one Oscar for Better Actor]], which Jane accepted on his behalf, as he was ill and homebound. He died several months later.

In the early 1980s she reinvented herself as a fitness guru, setting up the Jane Fonda Workout studio in Beverly Hills and creating best-selling books and tapes. Her exercise video, "Jane Fonda's Workout", became one of the best-selling videos of all time. Leading the aerobics craze, she was particularly noted in this regard for popularising the phrase "go for the burn." Fonda continued to make sporadic film appearances until announcing her official retirement in April 1991.

In early 2004, Fonda announced her return to acting after a fourteen-year absence in Monster-in-Law, a comedy in which she plays Jennifer Lopez's prospective mother-in-law. The film was released in May 2005 and debuted at #1 in the American box office, making over $23 million in its opening weekend. That same month there were [http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=84484&cat=Entertainment reports] she was in talks to film a sequel to 9 to 5.

Political activism
Fonda became involved in political activism during the 1960s, which saw the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement and significant rebellion against the "establishment." She was strongly engaged in activism and philanthropy in opposition to the Vietnam War. This, plus her strong support for the North Vietnamese and minimization of the abuse of American POWs, caused many mainstream Americans to regard her as a traitor.

Fonda and other celebrities were supporters of the Alcatraz Island occupation in 1969, which was intended to call attention to Native American issues.

She likewise supported Huey Newton and the Black Panthers in the early 1970s. She said "revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood." She called the Black Panthers "our revolutionary vanguard. We must support them with love, money, propaganda and risk."

Opposition to the Vietnam War
In April 1970, Fred Gardner, Fonda and Donald Sutherland formed *FTA* ("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. The tour, referred to as "political vaudeville" by Fonda, visited military towns along the West Coast, with the goal of establishing a dialogue with soldiers about their upcoming deployments to Vietnam. The dialogue was made into a movie. The film, containing frank criticism of the war by service men and women, was released in 1972 and abruptly withdrawn after only one week in movie theatres.[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/click/movie-10000934/reviews.php?critic=all&sortby=default&page=1&rid=820716]

Also in 1970, Fonda spoke out against the war at a rally organized by Vietnam Veterans Against the War, in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. She offered to help raise funds for VVAW, and was bestowed the title of Honorary National Coordinator for her efforts. Beginning November 3, she toured college campuses and raised funds for the organization. As noted by the New York Times, Fonda was a "major patron" of the VVAW.

In March 1971, Fonda traveled to Paris (some claim alone, some claim with an unnamed VVAW representative) to meet with NLF foreign minister Madam Nguyen Thi Binh. According to a transcript which was translated to Vietnamese and back to English, she told Binh at one point "Many of us have seen evidence proving the Nixon administration has escalated the war causing death and destruction perhaps as serious as the, bombing of Hiroshima." Afterwards, she travelled to London. A speech that she gave in London was criticized for her discussion of the US use of torture in Vietnam. Her financial support to VVAW at this time was apparently not significant, as within a month VVAW was broke and one of its prominent leaders, John Kerry, raised the needed funds.

Sixteen months later, Fonda went on her infamous trip to Hanoi.

"Hanoi Jane"
Fonda visited Hanoi in July 1972. She is credited with publicly exposing the strategy of bombing the dikes within Vietnam, at the time she was called a liar by the then-UN ambassador George H. W. Bush.

In Vietnam, Fonda was photographed seated on an anti-aircraft battery used against American pilots. She also participated in several radio broadcasts of the Communist regime, asking US pilots to turn around without dropping their bombs. In her 2005 autobiography she states that she was manipulated into sitting on the battery. She said she was sitting on the weapon with its muzzle pointing skyward whilst laughing about an unrelated joke during the Public Relations event. She claims to have been immediately horrified at the implications of the picture. She apologized for the photo sixteen years later, amidst continued hostility to her by many Americans. Her apology was directed to the soldiers who served their country in Vietnam, and carefully crafted to only include the photo incident and not the rest of her conduct in support of Communist Vietnam.

She also visited American prisoners of war, who assured her they had been neither tortured nor brainwashed. Fonda advanced these claims and relayed them to the American public. When cases of torture began to emerge among POWs returning to the United States, Fonda called the returning POWs liars. She also added, concerning the POWs she met, "These were not men who had been tortured. These were not men who had been starved. These were not men who had been brainwashed." Concerning torture in general, Fonda told the New York Times in 1973, "I'm quite sure that there were incidents of torture...but the pilots who were saying it was the policy of the Vietnamese and that it was systematic, I believe that's a lie."

It has emerged that the NLF actively recruited POWs for her events and punished prisioners who refused to cooperate. Michael Benge wrote that he was tortured for three days when he told his camp political officer that he would not lie about the camp conditions. Former vice presidential candidate and highly decorated POW James Stockdale has also written that he was beaten and tortured for refusing to meet with Fonda.

Although in the U.S. the war protests were large and increasing and many Americans were against the war, her actions in July, 1972, were widely perceived as an unpatriotic display of aid and comfort to the enemy, some characterizing it as treason. At other times Fonda had expressed a partisanship for the opposing side in the war.

Rumors that Fonda handed over information from U.S. prisoners of war to National Liberation Front (NLF) insurgents (better known in the U.S. as the "Viet Cong") were never confirmed.

Her detractors labeled her Hanoi Jane, comparing her to war propagandists Tokyo Rose and Hanoi Hannah. She has often been associated with contributing to a perceived anti-soldier sentiment among Vietnam War protesters, such as spitting on soldiers. Because of her actions, actor John Wayne cut off contact with her, even though he was a close friend of her father, and the Fonda children considered him an uncle.

Fonda's regrets
In 1988, Fonda admitted some regret to former American POWs and their families, stating, ''"I would like to say something, not just to Vietnam veterans in New England, but to men who were in Vietnam, who I hurt, or whose pain I caused to deepen because of things that I said or did. I was trying to help end the killing and the war, but there were times when I was thoughtless and careless about it and I'm very sorry that I hurt them. And I want to apologize to them and their families." She stated: "I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft gun, which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes. It hurt so many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless."'' On the Charlie Rose programme, Fonda made the distinction that her apology was limited to the photo appearance with the NVA AA-gun, and that she was "proud" of her activism against "the bombing of the dikes."

When Jane Fonda was honored by Barbara Walters in 1999 as one of the 100 great women of the century, sentiments regarding Fonda's actions in Vietnam were rekindled.

In 2004, her name was used as a disparaging epithet against Kerry, the former VVAW leader, who was then the Democratic Party presidential candidate. Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie called Kerry a "Jane Fonda Democrat". In addition, Kerry's opponents circulated a photograph showing Fonda and Kerry in the same large crowd at a 1970 anti-war rally, although they were sitting several rows apart. [http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/kerry.asp] Some also circulated a faked composite photograph to give the false impression that the two had shared a speaker's platform. [http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/kerry2.asp] Fonda appeared on CNN to defend Kerry against these attacks.

Fonda funded and organized the Indochina Peace Campaign. It continued to mobilize antiwar activists across the nation after the 1973 Paris Peace Agreement when most other antiwar organizations closed down.

In a 60 Minutes interview on March 31, 2005, Jane Fonda says she has no regrets about her trip to North Vietnam in 1972, with one exception: her visit to a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun site. She says the incident that brought her the nickname "Hanoi Jane," was a "betrayal" of American forces and of the "country that gave me privilege." Fonda was quoted as saying "The image of Jane Fonda, `Barbarella,' Henry Fonda's daughter ... sitting on an enemy aircraft gun was a betrayal ... the largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine."

Fonda made the distinction between regret over the use of her image as propaganda, and pride for her anti-war activism; visiting Hanoi and being photographed with American prisoners of war there. "There are hundreds of American delegations that had met with the POWs," says Fonda. "Both sides were using the POWs for propaganda....It's not something that I will apologize for." Nor is she sorry for the broadcasts she made on Radio Hanoi, something she asked the North Vietnamese to do. "Our government was lying to us and men were dying because of it, and I felt I had to do anything that I could to expose the lies and help end the war," she tells 60 Minutes.

In April of 2005, a man named Michael A. Smith from Kansas City, Missouri took advantage of one of Jane Fonda's book signings by spitting tobacco juice in her face. Minutes later, Michael Smith was caught by police and charged with disorderly conduct. He went to court on May 27, 2005. He said the reason he spat in Fonda's face was because Fonda was a "traitor", and said his actions were "absolutely worth it". Smith disagreed with her active support of North Vietnam and what was percieved as a betrayal of American POWs during the Vietnam War. After being spat in the face, Fonda kept signing books without getting up.

In May 2005, Kentucky resident Irving Bouthwell [http://www.news24.com/News24/Entertainment/Abroad/0,,2-1225-1243_1706758,00.html announced] that his two movie theaters would not show Fonda's new film Monster-in-law. Bouthwell (who had in the past banned other Fonda films and Fahrenheit 9/11) hung photos outside the theater of Fonda clapping with a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft crew.

Feminist causes

Fonda has been a longtime supporter of feminist causes, including V-Day, a movement to stop violence against women sparked by the off-Broadway hit The Vagina Monologues. Fonda was present at their first summit in 2002, bringing together founder Eve Ensler, Fonda, Afghan women and a Kenyan campaigning to save girls from genital mutilation.

On 16 February 2004, Fonda led a march through Ciudad Juárez, urging Mexico to provide sufficient resources to newly appointed officials helping investigate the slayings of hundreds of women in the rough border city.

Jane established the "Jane Fonda Center" at Emory University located in Atlanta; the goal of the center is to prevent adolescent pregnancy.

Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Fonda continues to participate in peace activism, in particular regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Fonda has been criticized by right-wing Israelis during a trip to Jerusalem in 2002 billed as a promotion of "world peace": the actress and activist was heckled as she arrived for a meeting with leading Israeli feminists. Three hecklers, members of Women in Green, criticized her controversial stance during the Vietnam War and said that she "came to Israel as a guest of Peace Now, Israeli traitors" [http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1202/jane_jeru.html].

Opposition to the Iraq War
Fonda says that the military campaign in Iraq will turn people all over the world against America. She has also asserted that a global hatred of America will result in more terrorist attacks in the aftermath of the war. (April 11, 2003) In July 2005, Fonda said that war veterans she had met while on her book tour had urged her to speak out against the Iraq War. [http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050725/ap_en_mo/people_fonda] In September 2005, Fonda and George Galloway postponed their vegetable oil powered anti-war bus tour due to the perceived slow start to the relief operation now underway in the Gulf Coast devastated by Hurricane Katrina. [http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_212534.shtml] Fonda will take the anti-war bus tour in March 2006 with her daughter and families of military veterans.

Family members
Brother: Peter Fonda, actor, director, producer Daughter: Vanessa Vadim; born in 1968; father, Roger Vadim; named after Vanessa Redgrave Son: Troy Garity, actor; born in 1973; father Tom Hayden; named after a Vietnamese resistance leader and given paternal grandmother's surname Daughter: Mary Williams, foster child, raised with Tom Hayden Niece: Bridget Fonda, actor; born in 1964; daughter of Peter Fonda

Marriages and relationships
Fonda has been married three times:

Her first husband (1965-73) was French film director Roger Vadim (b.1928-d.2000) with whom she had a daughter, Vanessa, named for Vanessa Redgrave, the well-known actor and activist member of the Workers' Revolutionary Person. According to Fonda's 2005 memoir, she participated in sexual threesomes at Vadim's insistance.

Her second husband (1973-1990) was author and politician Tom Hayden. Their son, Troy Garity was born in July 1973. With Hayden, she also raised a foster daughter, Mary Luana Williams, who is an activist born to members of the Black Panthers.

She married American cable-television tycoon, CNN founder Ted Turner on December 21 1991. They were together almost ten years until their May 2001 divorce.

She has also had romantic relationships with: Alexander "Sandy" Whitelaw, director; involved 1960 Donald Sutherland, actor; costarred in Klute; together 1970s Barry Matalon, hairdresser; together 1990s

Film awards and nominations

Academy Awards
1970: Academy Award Nomination; Best Actress, ''They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 1971: Academy Award; Best Actress, Klute 1978: Academy Award Nomination; Best Actress, Julia 1979: Academy Award; Best Actress, Coming Home 1980: Academy Award Nomination; Best Actress, The China Syndrome 1982: Academy Award Nomination; Best Supporting Actress, On Golden Pond 1987: Academy Award Nomination; Best Actress, The Morning After

Golden Globes
1971: Golden Globe; Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama), Klute 1972: Golden Globe; World Film Favorite - Female 1977: Golden Globe; Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama), Julia 1978: Golden Globe; World Film Favorite - Female 1978: Golden Globe; Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama), Coming Home 1961: Golden Globe; Most Promising Newcomer - Female

Others
1983: Emmy; Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special, The Dollmaker

Selected Filmography

By Year	By Name
Walk on the Wild Side (1962)	Agnes of God (1985)
La Ronde (1964)	Barbarella (1968)
Cat Ballou (1965)	Barefoot in the Park (1967)
The Chase (1966)	The Blue Bird (1976)
Barefoot in the Park (1967)	California Suite (1978)
Barbarella (1968)	Cat Ballou (1965)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)	The Chase (1966)
Klute (1971)	The China Syndrome (1979)
Tout va bien (1972)	Comes a Horseman (1978)
A Doll's House (1973)	Coming Home (1978)
The Blue Bird (1976)	A Doll's House (1973)
Julia (1977)	The Electrical Horseman (1979)
Coming Home (1978)	Julia (1977)
Comes a Horseman (1978)	Klute (1971)
California Suite (1978)	La Ronde (1964)
The China Syndrome (1979)	Leonard Part 6 (1987) (cameo)
The Electrical Horseman (1979)	Monster-in-Law (2005)
9 to 5 (1980)	The Morning After (1986)
On Golden Pool (1981)	9 to 5 (1980)
Rollover (1981)	Old Gringo (1989)
Agnes of God (1985)	On Golden Pool (1981)
The Morning After (1986)	Rollover (1981)
Leonard Part 6 (1987) (cameo)	Stanley and Iris (1990)
Old Gringo (1989)	They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
Stanley and Iris (1990)	Tout va bien (1972)
Monster-in-Law (2005)	Walk on the Wild Side'' (1962)