Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda began her acting career on stage in the late 1950s before transitioning to film in the 1960s. Her film debut came in 1960 with Tall Story, reprising one of her Broadway roles as a college cheerleader. She followed with Period of Adjustment and Walk on the Wild Side in 1962, earning a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer for the latter. In 1963, she starred in Sunday in New York and The Chapman Report. Her subsequent films included Joy House and Circle of Love in 1964.

Fonda achieved a major film breakthrough with Cat Ballou in 1965, playing a schoolmarm who becomes an outlaw. The film received five Academy Award nominations, with Lee Marvin winning Best Actor. She next starred in The Chase in 1966, her first film with Robert Redford, followed by The Game Is Over, Any Wednesday and Barefoot in the Park. In 1968, she played the title role in Barbarella. She received critical acclaim and her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? in 1969, also winning the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress.

In 1971, Fonda won her first Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Bree Daniels in Klute. Her performance also earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress and a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. Her film work during the 1970s included A Doll's House in 1973, Steelyard Blues and The Blue Bird in 1976, and Tout Va Bien in 1972, directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin. She also appeared in Letter to Jane in 1972.

Fonda returned to major commercial success with Fun with Dick and Jane in 1977. That same year, she portrayed playwright Lillian Hellman in Julia, earning her first BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, her second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. In 1978, she won her second Academy Award for Best Actress for Coming Home, along with another Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. She also appeared in Comes a Horseman and California Suite that year. In 1979, she won her second BAFTA Award for Best Actress for The China Syndrome and received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for the role. She also starred in The Electric Horseman with Robert Redford.

Fonda began the 1980s with 9 to 5, starring alongside Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton. The film became one of the year's highest-grossing releases. She subsequently starred in On Golden Pond with her father, Henry Fonda, and Katharine Hepburn, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She appeared in The Dollmaker in 1984, winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress, followed by Agnes of God in 1985 and The Morning After in 1986, for which she received another Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. She concluded the decade with Old Gringo.

In 1982, Fonda launched the Jane Fonda Workout series with her first exercise video, Jane Fonda's Workout, inspired by her best-selling book Jane Fonda's Workout Book. The video became the highest-selling home video of its time and sold more than a million copies. She subsequently released additional workout videos, books and audio programs. The workout series ultimately sold 17 million copies, and she released two additional fitness videos on DVD in 2010.

Fonda continued her work in film and production during the 1980s. In 1983, she entered an agreement with Columbia Pictures to star in or produce projects through her own production company, Jayne Development Corporation. In 1985, the company was renamed Fonda Films. In 1990, she starred opposite Robert De Niro in Stanley & Iris, which became her final film for 15 years. In 1991, after three decades in film, she retired from the film industry.

Fonda returned to the screen in 2005 with Monster-in-Law, starring opposite Jennifer Lopez. In 2007, she appeared in Georgia Rule alongside Felicity Huffman and Lindsay Lohan. In 2009, she returned to Broadway for the first time since 1963 in Moisés Kaufman's 33 Variations, playing Katherine Brandt and earning a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play.

In 2011, Fonda starred in the French film All Together, her first French-language film since Tout Va Bien in 1972. She also appeared in Peace, Love and Misunderstanding that year. In 2012, she began a recurring role as Leona Lansing, the CEO of a major media company, on HBO's The Newsroom. She appeared throughout the show's three seasons and received two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.

Fonda portrayed First Lady Nancy Reagan in Lee Daniels' The Butler in 2013. She followed with appearances in Better Living Through Chemistry and This Is Where I Leave You in 2014. She also voiced Maxine Lombard in an episode of The Simpsons. In 2015, she appeared in Youth and Fathers and Daughters, earning a Golden Globe Award nomination for Youth.

In 2015, Fonda began starring alongside Lily Tomlin in the Netflix series Grace and Frankie. The series premiered on May 8, 2015, and ran for seven seasons before concluding in 2022. In 2016, she voiced Shuriki in Elena and the Secret of Avalor. She also participated in a Human Rights Campaign tribute video honoring the victims of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting.

Fonda reunited with Robert Redford for the fourth time in the 2017 romantic drama Our Souls at Night. In 2018, she starred alongside Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen and Candice Bergen in Book Club. That year, she was also the subject of the HBO documentary Jane Fonda in Five Acts, which premiered on Sept. 24, 2018.

Fonda completed production on the seventh and final season of Grace and Frankie in 2021. The final season was released in two parts, with the final 12 episodes premiering on Netflix on April 29, 2022. In 2021, she also appeared in Amazon Prime Video's Yearly Departed.

In 2023, Fonda starred in 80 for Brady alongside Lily Tomlin, Rita Moreno and Sally Field. She also headlined the black comedy Moving On with Tomlin, Malcolm McDowell and Richard Roundtree. Her third film of the year was Book Club: The Next Chapter, filmed in Italy.

In 2026, Fonda was announced as a star of the big-screen adaptation of Virginia Evans' New York Times best-seller The Correspondent.