Biography
American actress who at times has been a sexpot, a feminist, a political activist, a maker of exercise
videos, businesswoman, philanthropist and wife to famous men. As she reinvents herself in a
series of different incarnations, all in this lifetime, she has been the object of admiration
and outrage. An extremist who has frequently demonstrated poor judgment, Fonda is also known
for her courage and mettle, standing up for that which she believes to be right. She stands
among the world's most admired women.
Jane is the daughter of Henry Fonda and his second wife, Frances Brokaw. Her famous dad was
hot-tempered, inattentive and largely uncommunicative. Her mom, an East Coast socialite,
became an agoraphobic penny-pincher who was hospitalized for mental illness and killed herself
when Jane was 13. As a junior at boarding school, Jane started a pattern of bulimia that
lasted 23 years during the height of her movie-making career. She made her acting debut at 18
in "Country Girl," starring with her dad, thus beginning her spectacular career.
Fonda was married to French filmmaker Roger Vadim from 1965-1971; they had one daughter,
Vanessa. He directed her as she played the title role in the film "Barbarella," a chain-smoking,
pill-popping bulimic sex-pot. After 1969, she changed her image to one of a serious, first-rate
actress. Fonda won the New York Film Critics Award for "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" and an
Oscar for "Klute," 1972. She has had seven Academy Award nominations, including that of Best
Actress in "Julia," 1978. In 1979 she won a second Oscar for "Coming Home."
During the Vietnam War, she became a political activist and gained the reputation of being a
simple-minded loudmouth whom some called traitor. She was nicknamed Hanoi Jane after she
broadcast over Hanoi radio and posed on an anti-aircraft carrier with the North Vietnamese
with whom the American military was locked in battle. Further enraging Americans, she publicly
denounced U.S. soldiers as killers, declared that Black Panther Huey Newton was "close to
sainthood" and visited American POWs in what was reportedly used as North Vietnamese
propaganda. On January 21, 1973, during her political period, she married another anti-war
activist Tom Hayden and became immersed in his 1976 Senatorial attempt, before they later
divorced in 1990. (Their son Troy Hayden, known professionally as Troy Garity, was arrested
January 15, 1990 for spray-painting graffiti near a freeway and his half-sister, Vanessa, was
ordered to do community service after being arrested for mouthing-off at the scene of a
drug bust the previous November.)
In the next decade, keeping physically fit and active, she turned herself into an aerobics
guru with exercise videos, becoming the head of a $670 million aerobics and fitness
empire. She denounced cosmetic surgery at the same time that she herself had eye lifts and
breast implants.
On December 21, 1991 at 11:22 AM, she married media tycoon Ted Turner at his 8,000 acre
ranch near Capps, east of Tallahassee, FL. They seemed an ideal couple, each having to
compromise with the other's strong beliefs and ego. Jane presented herself as an attractive
modern woman and Ted demonstrated a tolerance for liberal causes and passion for the
environment. In her customary pattern of being a chameleon to her mate, she gave up her acting
career to become the ideal corporate wife. Fonda and Turner ultimately showed the stress of
being an unlikely duo; on January 4, 2000 they announced their separation. One reason given:
her latest "cause," that of becoming a Christian, rubbed Ted the wrong way. Their divorce was
final on May 22, 2001.
At age 67, she is working on the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention,
an organization which she founded. Her memoir, "My Life So Far," was released on April 5, 2005
and the following month, the movie "Monster-in-Law," co-starring Jane, was released. In her
book, on tour and on the interview circuit, Fonda has tried to explain herself and her actions
leaving some of her audience to admire her and others to revile her. One Vietnam veteran spit
in her face at a book signing; Fonda said she would not press charges.
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