
Jane Seymour Fonda is an American actress, writer, social activist, and former fashion model born on December 21, 1937. She has won two Academy Awards. In addition, she was awarded the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014.
Fonda began her career on Broadway in 1960 with “There Was a Little Girl,” for which she won her first of two Tony Award nominations. She made her big-screen debut in the film Tall Story the same year. During the 1960s, she became increasingly well-known, starring in films such as Period of Adjustment (1962), Sunday in New York (1963), Cat Ballou (1965), Barefoot in the Park (1967), and Barbarella (1968). Roger Vadim, her first husband, was a director. She was nominated for an Academy Award seven times, including the first in They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969). Then he won two prizes for Best Actor in Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1973). (1978). Julia (1977), The China Syndrome (1979), On Golden Pond (1981), and The Morning After (1981) are among the other nominees (1986). She also received an Emmy Award for the television series The Dollmaker (1984), two BAFTA Awards for Julia and The China Syndrome, and four Golden Globe Awards for Julia and The China Syndrome.