ACTOR
Jane Fonda
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- #001
A month after their wedding, Jane Fonda caught Ted Turner cheating, which led her to hit him repeatedly with a car phone and pour a bottled drink over his head.
- #002
Fonda was arrested at Cleveland Airport in Ohio on charges that she kicked patrolman Robert Pieper and customs officer Edward Matuszek in the groin and upper leg during a struggle after they found 105 bottles containing roughly 2,000 capsules in her suitcase. She spent 10 hours in a cell at the Cuyahoga County Jail and made her first appearance on $6,000 personal bail. The federal drug-smuggling charge was dropped after the substances were determined to be vitamins and prescription amounts of Dexedrine, Valium and Compazine. For lack of evidence, the federal assault charge brought by Matuszek was also dropped, because the alleged 'assault' occurred while he chased Fonda into the women's restroom. Pieper filed a $100,000 personal injury suit against her in civil court, which was ultimately dismissed at her attorney's request.
- #003
She and her father, Henry Fonda, are the only father-daughter pair to win Oscars in leading roles.
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She is a breast cancer survivor.
- #005
Jane now openly admits that she was bulimic between the ages of 13 and 37. She has said that while working as a model she lived on cigarettes, coffee, speed and strawberry yogurt.
- #006
She has had hip and knee replacements. This is a genetic condition unrelated to her exercise regimen. Both her father and her brother also had replacements.
- #007
The suicide of her socialite mother, Frances Ford Seymour, was hidden from her in her youth, and she was told her mother had died of heart failure. Newspaper and magazine subscriptions to the house were canceled, and Fonda's high school staff and student body were instructed not to discuss the matter. Fonda learned the truth months later while leafing through a film magazine in the study hall.
- #008
She married Ted Turner on her birthday in 1991.
- #009
She said Book Club (2018) was the most fun film she has ever made, and named her co-star Don Johnson as the most attractive actor she has worked with.
- #010
Tom Hayden was worth only $50,000 when he married Fonda in 1973 and refused to sign the prenuptial agreement her lawyer had prepared. Because Jane did not want to upset him, she dropped the matter. Much of her future earnings went to financing Hayden's lackluster political career, and in the couple's 1990 divorce settlement Hayden received an estimated $30 million under California's community property law.
- #011
She claims that once her makeup is done, she can go to public places easily without being recognized.
- #012
Jane's appearance in On Golden Pond (1981) alongside her father, Henry Fonda, and her son, Troy Garity, was the only time three generations of Fondas appeared in the same film.
- #013
In 1984 her fortune from acting, producing and fitness videos was estimated at $50 million.
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She and Tom Hayden gave their son, Troy Garity, his grandmother's surname for the sake of anonymity.
- #015
She was offered the role of Chris MacNeil in The Exorcist (1973).
- #016
She turned down the role of Lara Antipova in Doctor Zhivago (1965) because the film was to be shot mainly in Spain for nine months. She did not want to be away from her fiancé, Roger Vadim, for so long, but weeks later she changed her mind and told her agent she wanted to do it. By then Julie Christie had been signed to play Lara, and the rest is history. Jane still says that of all the films she turned down over her career, Doctor Zhivago is the one she most regrets not making.
- #017
Fonda's visit to Hanoi during the Vietnam War, where she campaigned in favor of the communist regime, and the subsequent publication of several photographs of her taken atop a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun used against American air crews, earned her the nickname "Hanoi Jane." As a result of the Hanoi visit and the accompanying photographs, many Americans continue to regard Fonda with general resentment and hostility to this day.
- #018
She danced ballet until she broke her foot in her forties.
- #019
She starred in Norma Rae (1979), in which her ultimate star, Sally Field, won the Best Actress Oscar.
- #020
Jane Fonda was nominated for the 2009 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for "33 Variations."
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Jane Fonda has a daughter, Vanessa Vadim, with Roger Vadim, and a son, Troy Garity, with Tom Hayden.
- #022
Around 1957, at a star-studded party her father hosted on the French Riviera, Greta Garbo told her she was "pretty enough," after which Fonda decided to become an actress.
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Jane Fonda has a half-sister on her mother's side, Pan Corrias (1931-2008), and a half-sister, Amy Fishman (née Amy Fonda; b. 1953).
- #024
Jane Fonda joined roughly 5,500 people, including Rachel McAdams, at a Greenpeace rally in Vancouver to protest oil drilling in British Columbia.
- #025
In 1978, four years after she began recovering from bulimia nervosa, Jane Fonda also quit smoking, an unhealthy habit that occasionally resurfaced. As recently as 2015, paparazzi caught her shaving at an outdoor café in Paris.
- #026
Jane Fonda was offered the role of Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) but turned it down. Louise Fletcher was cast instead and won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance.
- #027
As a young aspiring star, Jane Fonda was advised to have her jaw broken and reset and her back teeth removed to create a sharper look. She resisted the suggestion.
- #028
Cat Ballou (1965) was only a contractual obligation for Jane Fonda, but it turned out to be the film that established her as a box-office draw.
- #029
Jane Fonda is named after Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII; her mother, Frances, claimed descent from her.
- #030
Swing Shift (1984) was originally written as a vehicle for Jane Fonda. When her manager turned the film down and Goldie Hawn took over the part, the project was rewritten as a partial comedy.
- #031
Shortly after her divorce from Ted Turner, Jane Fonda announced that she had become a born-again Christian. Speculation held that this may have played a role in their separation, since Ted Turner had expressed highly critical views on religion in general.
- #032
To draw press attention to the One Fair Wage ballot measure, Jane Fonda worked as a waitress for a day in Lansing, Michigan.
- #033
Her aerobics video Workout (1982) sold 17 million copies, making it the best-selling home video of all time and turning her into an icon of that kind of exercise.
- #034
Jane Fonda was mentioned in Sir Mix A Lot's 1992 hit single "Baby Got Back."
- #035
Jane Fonda was born double-jointed.
- #036
Jane Fonda visited Sweden to support the political party FI (Feminist Initiative) in national elections.
- #037
Her post-retirement film Monster-in-Law (2005) came out at the same time as her autobiography "My Life So Far," and her workout videos were also re-released on DVD in stores at the same time.
- #038
Jane Fonda is the subject of an urban legend. According to the story, when Vassar was a women's college, Fonda refused to wear the elegant white gloves and pearls that were the dress code for daily tea in the Rose Parlour. When confronted, Fonda returned to the parlour wearing the gloves and pearls and nothing else.
- #039
Along with fellow actresses Sally Field and Christine Lahti and playwright Eve Ensler, Jane Fonda took part in a protest calling on the Mexican government to reopen the investigation into the killings of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juárez on the Mexico–Texas border.
- #040
Jane Fonda received the Producers Guild of America's Stanley Kramer Award for her activism and philanthropic work.
- #041
In 1969–71, Jane Fonda supported the Native American occupation of Alcatraz, defying a Coast Guard blockade to deliver supplies to the militants who had seized the island.
- #042
Jane Fonda received an honorary degree from Emerson College.
- #043
After the Oscar ceremony, Jane Fonda claimed that The Deer Hunter (1978) was a racist film and presented the official version of the war in Vietnam.
- #044
On her birthday in Los Angeles, Jane Fonda hosted a Bank Exit rally with special guests Frances Fisher, Dolores Huerta, Catherine Keener and Lily Tomlin to denounce the 17 banks financing the Dakota Access Pipeline and to publicly withdraw her money from Wells Fargo. She was presented with an updated birthday cake on which the iconic promotional image from Barbarella (1968) was renamed "Bankarella" and decorated with an ironic shower of dollar bills.
- #045
Jane Fonda is good friends with Lily Tomlin, who appeared with her in 9 to 5 (1980) and now stars with her in the Emmy-nominated series Grace and Frankie (2015). In the series, they play mad rivals whose husbands leave them for each other after 40 years of marriage.
- #046
A Vietnam veteran spat tobacco juice in Jane Fonda's face after waiting 90 minutes in line to have a copy of her memoir signed at the Unity Temple Bookstore in Kansas City, Missouri. Although it was designed as a spit-and-run, the 54-year-old Michael A. Smith was caught by security, arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. Fonda appeared shaken and, after the tobacco juice was wiped off, continued signing books without even leaving her seat.
- #047
During her bachelorette days, Jane Fonda was romantically involved with racing team owner Giovanni Volpi, producers José Antonio Sáinz de Vicuña and Sandy Whitelaw, and actors Warren Beatty, James Franciscus, Peter Mann, Christian Marquand and William Wellman Jr.; with political activist Fred Gardner and actor Donald Sutherland in the early 1970s while separated from her first husband Roger Vadim; with footballer Lorenzo Caccialanza for seven months in 1989 while separated from her second husband Tom Hayden; and with retired management consultant Lynden Gillis between her divorce from Ted Turner and her current relationship with Richard Perry. Over her long career, Jane has also been said to have had romantic links with numerous men, including her co-stars Alain Delon and Kris Kristofferson, musician Mick Jagger, cinematographer Sven Nykvist, talk show host Geraldo Rivera, columnist Robert Scheer and Manson Family victim Jay Sebring, though most of these relationships have not been confirmed to date.
- #048
Jane Fonda regards They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) as a turning point in her career.
- #049
Jane Fonda is the former sister-in-law of Susan Brewer and Hélène Plemiannikov.
- #050
Jane Fonda was born on the day Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) was released.
- #051
Jane Fonda retired from acting in 1991 but returned to the screen 14 years later.
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Jane Fonda owns a ranch in New Mexico near Santa Fe, which she acquired in her divorce settlement from Ted Turner. Her former stepdaughter Nathalie Vadim lives there and looks after the horses.
- #053
In 1967, a photo of Jane Fonda topless on an Italian beach, arms crossed, hair blowing in the wind and scowling, became a classic poster.
- #054
Jane Fonda was an exercise guru and still is.
- #055
Jane Fonda accepted the Best Actor Oscar on behalf of her father Henry Fonda, who was not present at the ceremony.
- #056
Jane Fonda's birth caused some interruptions during the filming of Jezebel (1938), in which her father starred with Bette Davis.
- #057
Jane Fonda's grandchildren are Malcolm McDuffy (born May 28, 1999) and Viva Arnett (born November 23, 2002).
- #058
Jane Fonda's mother was Canadian, born in Brockville, Leeds, Ontario. Fonda's ancestry includes Dutch, English, Scottish, French-Canadian and distant Italian, German, Belgian [Flemish], Norwegian and Cornish roots.
- #059
Jane Fonda and her father were the first father-daughter pair to be nominated for Oscars in the same year.
- #060
Fonda was considered the odds-on favorite to win the Best Actress Oscar for her heartbreaking performance in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), so her loss to Maggie Smith for the commercially less successful The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) came as a surprise. It was speculated that her arrest at the Fort Hood military reservation on 8 March 1970, along with recent rumors of drug use and adultery, cost her the award.
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Jane Fonda is the aunt of Bridget Fonda and Justin Fonda.
- #062
Jane Fonda was considered for Katharine Ross's roles in The Graduate (1967) and The Stepford Wives (1975).
- #063
Fonda's mother worked as a secretary on Wall Street at the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, the bank that later handed all of Jane's files over to the FBI without a subpoena.
- #064
On her website, Fonda revealed that she once bathed in the ashes of her Golden Retriever, Roxy, mistaking the contents of the jar for bath salts and not realizing what they were until she saw a bone in the water.
- #065
Jane Fonda practices Zazen meditation.
- #066
Fonda's daughter Vanessa Vadim was delivered with forceps. The traumatic birth later led to Fonda being diagnosed with postpartum depression.
- #067
Fonda auditioned for the role of Evelyn Wright in Spanglish (2004) but lost it to Anne Bancroft. When Bancroft was diagnosed with cancer she had to leave the film and was replaced by Cloris Leachman.
- #068
Jane Fonda was honored with the prestigious Gold Hugo Career Achievement Award from the Chicago International Film Festival.
- #069
Fonda underwent a lumpectomy in November 2010, and in January 2018 a cancerous tumor was removed from her lower lip.
- #070
Jane Fonda turned down Rosemary's Baby (1968), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Cinderella Liberty (1973), Network (1976) and An Unmarried Woman (1978).
- #071
Jane Fonda turned down the role in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969).
- #072
Jane Fonda was named the 51st Greatest Movie Star of All Time by Entertainment Weekly.
- #073
Jane Fonda was honored with a day of her filmography during Turner Classic Movies' Summer Under the Stars.
- #074
Jane Fonda is currently appearing on Broadway in Moisés Kaufman's "33 Variations".
- #075
Louis Malle originally planned to direct Pretty Baby (1978), a film about the photographer E. J. Bellocq, with Fonda and Jodie Foster playing Hattie and Violet respectively. In the end, scheduling conflicts made both actresses unavailable, so Susan Sarandon and Brooke Shields were cast in the roles.
- #076
While writing the film that eventually became Contact (1997), writers Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan envisioned Fonda in the role of Dr. Ellie Arroway.
- #077
Jane Fonda credits Simone Signoret with getting her into politics.
- #078
Before Natalie Wood was cast, Jane Fonda was the first choice to play Maggie Dubois in The Great Race (1965).
- #079
During her modeling days after college, Jane Fonda appeared on the cover of Vogue twice.
- #080
Jane Fonda was parodied on Saturday Night Live (1975) by Betty Thomas, Joan Cusack and Ana Gasteyer.
- #081
Jane Fonda is a former UN Goodwill Ambassador.
- #082
Jane Fonda is Shirlee Fonda's stepdaughter.
- #083
For her role as Bree Daniels in Klute (1971), Jane Fonda ranked 91st on Premiere Magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Performances of All Time.
- #084
Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden informally adopted 14-year-old Mary Luana Williams, known as Lulu. Lulu was the fifth child of the Black Panther couple Mary and Randy Williams, whom Fonda had met several years earlier through Huey P. Newton. Lulu met the Haydens in 1978 when she attended a summer camp they organized in Santa Barbara for disadvantaged youths.
- #085
Jane Fonda's role in The China Syndrome (1979) was originally written as a male role intended for Richard Dreyfuss. After Dreyfuss left, the role was rewritten as a woman with Fonda in mind.
- #086
Jane Fonda shared the cover of Vanity Fair's Hollywood issue with Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlotte Rampling, Rachel Weisz, Lupita Nyong'o, Brie Larson, Alicia Vikander, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Helen Mirren, Diane Keaton and Saoirse Ronan. Photograph by Annie Leibovitz.
- #087
On Thanksgiving, Jane Fonda visited the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota, where she served dinner to about 500 protesters against the Bakken Pipeline.
- #088
Jane Fonda lived in Atlanta, GA for 20 years of her life (1991-2011).
- #089
Jane Fonda was born at the now-closed Doctors Hospital on East End Avenue in Manhattan.
- #090
In 1979, Jane Fonda was paid 2 million dollars by Columbia Pictures to appear in a prison film titled "Her Brother's Keeper," whether or not it was ultimately made, which it was not. Such an arrangement is informally known as a pay-or-play contract.
- #091
Jane Fonda is Peter Fonda's sister.
- #092
Jane Fonda is separated from Richard Perry.
- #093
Jane Fonda and her The China Syndrome (1979) co-stars Jack Lemmon and Michael Douglas all won Oscars in the lead acting categories. Fonda won for Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978); Lemmon won for Save the Tiger (1973) and Douglas won for Wall Street (1987).
- #094
During her marriage to CNN founder Ted Turner, Jane Fonda occasionally chatted with Donald Trump, but today she is an outspoken critic of the current President, even though he has given money to her nonprofit organizations.
- #095
Jane Fonda's 1970 Ohio mugshot was used as the poster for the Jane Fonda documentary in Five Acts (2018).
- #096
Jane Fonda was appointed Miss Army Recruiting by the Pentagon in 1962.
- #097
Jane Fonda's hand and footprints were honored at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
- #098
Fonda became the first major American actress to appear nude in a foreign film in Circle of Love (1964) — she was in fact charged with obscenity in Italy over the film — and she has continued to break new ground on screen by showing her body far beyond her typical years. At 51, she went topless for a love scene with Jimmy Smits, 18 years her junior, in Old Gringo (1989), and at 80 she wore a sleeveless nightgown in Book Club (2018) with no visible bingo wing.
- #099
She has been a spokesperson for L'Oréal since 2006.
- #100
Fonda's war protests canceled out the impact of her first Oscar, for Klute (1971); for the next five years she was nearly blacklisted by the film industry until Fun with Dick and Jane (1977) brought her renewed success (none of the four films she made in between was widely distributed). Public reaction to her Hanoi trip eventually faded, and despite a below-the-radar Hollywood campaign to damage her reputation and spread false stories about her destructive behavior, she finished the 1979–1980 season as the world's top female box-office star. One widely circulated fabrication held that Fonda caused the destruction of the only existing negative of Stagecoach (1939) because she despised John Wayne.
- #101
She was originally set to play A.D.A. Kathryn Murphy in Jonathan Kaplan's The Accused (1988), with Kelly McGillis playing the rape survivor Sarah Tobias. Filming was to begin in 1985, but a lack of funding pushed the project two years behind schedule and Fonda had to withdraw. In the end the Kathryn role was played by McGillis and the Sarah role went to Jodie Foster, who won an Oscar for her performance.
- #102
She screen-tested for the melodrama Parrish (1961) opposite an unknown Warren Beatty, but the leads went to Troy Donahue and Diane McBain.
- #103
Fonda put the Beverly Hills house she bought in 2012 up for sale and paid $5.45 million in cash for a newly built townhouse in Century City. One of her new neighbors is Bob Newhart.
- #104
She learned to play guitar from David Crosby.
- #105
In 1994 Fonda founded G-CAPP, the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention. The foundation advocates for safe-sex education, provides support staff for young people before, during and after birth, and runs a network of "Second Chance Homes" that helps young mothers become self-sufficient by working to reduce repeat teen pregnancies and providing young mothers with a safe living environment, long-term economic independence, and child development, parenting and life skills.
- #106
She turned down the role of Bonnie Parker, played by Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde (1967). Because she was living in France at the time, she did not want to move to the United States for the part.
- #107
She was one of 400 theater professionals who signed a petition supporting a delegation from the Women's Peace Strike organization on its trip to the disarmament conference in Geneva.
- #108
She was initially attached to play the female lead in Jagged Edge (1985). When she demanded changes to Joe Eszterhas's script, the studio sided with Eszterhas and brought in Glenn Close in her place.
- #109
In Waterbury, Connecticut, protesters led by a Republican political activist who was a World War II veteran threatened to block the shooting of Fonda's 1990 film Stanley & Iris (1990), but when filming began she was well received by the community, and the city's Board of Aldermen firmly overturned a resolution saying she was not welcome in the city.
- #110
She was a celebrity donor to Democrat Jonathan Ossoff's campaign in Georgia's 6th congressional district special election.
- #111
She turned down Meryl Streep's role in The Manchurian Candidate (2004) because she did not want her return to Hollywood to be as the villain.
- #112
She was among those considered for Tiffany Case, the first American Bond girl in the 007 series, in Diamonds Are Forever (1971). Jill St. John took the role.
- #113
It was announced that Fonda donated $12.5 million to Harvard University's Graduate School of Education to create a gender studies center devoted to examining how boys and girls learn differently. Her donation was reported to be the largest ever made to the school at that time.
- #114
She came out in support of Marion Cotillard and Bradley Cooper to help them secure Oscar nominations for Two Days, One Night (2014) and American Sniper (2014) respectively. Both were nominated for the 87th Academy Awards.
- #115
Jane Fonda is a co-founder of the Women's Media Center, which she established together with Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem.
- #116
Jane Fonda turned down Robert Redford's offer to star opposite him in Havana (1990).
- #117
Jane Fonda is the daughter of Henry Fonda and Frances Seymour Fonda.
- #118
Jane Fonda was listed as a potential nominee in the voting for the 2006 Razzie Awards, put forward as a suggestion for Worst Actress for her performance in Monster-in-Law (2005), but she did not receive a nomination. Had she been nominated, it would have been her first Razzie nomination in 16 years; she had previously been nominated for Worst Actress at the 1990 Razzie Awards for her performance in Old Gringo (1989).
- #119
The American Film Institute gave Jane Fonda the 2014 AFI Life Achievement Award, which honors a person whose career in film or television has greatly contributed to the enrichment of American culture.
- #120
Jane Fonda was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 sexiest stars in film history (#21).
- #121
Howard Stern has called Jane Fonda a "hero" and wants her to run for the Oval Office.
- #122
Jane Fonda discussed with James Stewart playing his daughter in The FBI Story (1959), which would have been her first film, but she was not interested in the small role and it went to Diane Jergens instead.
- #123
Jane Fonda is the former stepdaughter of Susan Blanchard and Afdera Franchetti.
- #124
Jane Fonda replaced Shirley MacLaine as Brenda Morel in Youth (2015).
- #125
Jane Fonda attended an all-girls middle school, an all-girls high school and a women's college.
- #126
Jane Fonda was the first choice for the role of Evelyn Mulwray in Chinatown (1974), which Faye Dunaway ultimately played. Fonda was sought by the film's producer Robert Evans, who was also head of production at Paramount Pictures, director Roman Polanski and Paramount owner Charlie Bluhdorn. After lengthy negotiations, Fonda passed on the role. Evans then contacted Dunaway's manager Sue Mengers and got her for the lowest price, $50,000, telling his close friend Mengers that he wanted Dunaway while everyone else wanted Fonda. Mengers, saying she had time to broker the deal before Fonda signed her contract, got Dunaway to accept the humiliating offer. (Evans had explained to Mengers that after three consecutive flops Faye was a cold property.) After signing Dunaway, he told Mengers that Fonda had in fact passed on the role. Mengers hung up on him. Polanski had not wanted Dunaway as the female lead because of her reputation for being difficult, and he experienced this during the shooting of Chinatown. She received an Oscar nomination for the role.
- #127
Jane Fonda recovered after left knee replacement surgery.
- #128
Jane Fonda made a fortune by releasing her first exercise video.
- #129
Jane Fonda owns a Coton de Tulear named Tulea.
- #130
After giving birth with forceps and suffering postpartum depression, Jane Fonda breastfed her daughter Vanessa Vadim until she was three weeks old, but she continued to breastfeed her son Troy Garity through the first two years of his life.
- #131
Jane Fonda was Universal's choice for the role of Rusty Dennis in Mask (1985). Director Peter Bogdanovich and screenwriter Anna Hamilton Phelan wanted Cher to play Rusty. The studio eventually gave in and cast Cher.
- #132
Jane Fonda was in contention for one of the two female leads in Fahrenheit 451 (1966) before François Truffaut decided that Julie Christie should play both roles as a dual role.
- #133
Jane Fonda is friends with Catherine Schneider, Dyan Cannon, Holly Near, Maria Shriver, Pat Mitchell, Paula Weinstein, Rosanna Arquette and Vanessa Redgrave.
- #134
Jane Fonda turned down the role of Sally in Husbands and Wives (1992) because she did not agree with Woody Allen about the character's look.
- #135
Premiere magazine ranked Jane Fonda 32nd on its list of the Greatest Movie Stars of All Time, in terms of Stars in Our Constellation.
- #136
The initials of Jane Fonda's production company IPC Films originally stood for Indochina Peace Campaign. The meaning was later changed to International Pictures Corporation, and it was renamed Fonda Films when she severed ties with business partner Bruce Gilbert and teamed up with Lois Bonfiglio.
- #137
Jane Fonda received a Golden Lion lifetime achievement award from the Venice Film Festival.
- #138
Jane Fonda turned down the role given to Isabelle Huppert in Heaven's Gate (1980).
- #139
Jane Fonda received the Women's Lifetime Achievement Award at the Environmental Media Association (EMA) Honors Benefit Gala for her efforts to make a difference on the planet.
- #140
Jane Fonda was replaced by Jessica Lange for the lead role in Music Box (1989).
- #141
Jane Fonda auditioned for the lead role in Fanny (1961), which went to Leslie Caron.
- #142
Jane Fonda was considered for the role of Aunt Entity in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985).
- #143
Director Richard Tuggle lobbied for Jane Fonda to play the female lead in Tightrope (1984).
- #144
Jane Fonda dropped out of Elizabethtown (2005) when shooting was postponed. Susan Sarandon took over the role.
- #145
Jane Fonda starred in two consecutive films with the word "horseman" in the title: Comes a Horseman (1978) and The Electric Horseman (1979).
- #146
Jane Fonda was considered for the role of Beth Jarrett in Ordinary People (1980), but Mary Tyler Moore was cast instead.
- #147
As of 2018, Jane Fonda had appeared in three Oscar Best Picture nominees: Julia (1977), Coming Home (1978) and On Golden Pond (1981). Although she still acts, she has not appeared in a film since 1981.
- #148
Columbia wanted Jane Fonda for Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965), but director Otto Preminger insisted on using Carol Lynley.
- #149
Jane Fonda ranked 9th on Men's Health's list of the 100 Hottest Women of All Time.
- #150
Jane Fonda is one of 22 Oscar-winning actresses born in New York state. The others are Alice Brady, Teresa Wright, Anne Revere, Celeste Holm, Claire Trevor, Judy Holliday, Shirley Booth, Susan Hayward, Patty Duke, Anne Bancroft, Barbra Streisand, Lee Grant, Beatrice Straight, Whoopi Goldberg, Mercedes Ruehl, Marisa Tomei, Mira Sorvino, Susan Sarandon, Jennifer Connelly, Melissa Leo and Anne Hathaway.
- #151
Jane Fonda has appeared on more than 1,000 magazine covers worldwide.
- #152
Jane Fonda attended the Emma Willard School in Troy, New York.
- #153
Jane Fonda turned down the role of Bobbie in the 1971 film Carnal Knowledge.
- #154
Jane Fonda is the former mother-in-law of Matt Arnett.
- #155
Jane Fonda is the sister-in-law of Parky Devogelaere.
- #156
Jane Fonda's step-niece Pilar Corrias runs an art gallery bearing her own name in London.
- #157
Jane Fonda actively pursued the role of Laura Kelly in Legal Eagles (1986).
- #158
The surname has a meaning in Chile and other Latin American countries, but when Chile celebrates its national day on 18 September with a traditional party, people dance the traditional Chilean dance called "cueca" and drink wine and eat "empanadas" at a place called a "fonda." Each fonda has its own name, but there is a very popular one called "La Yein Fonda," a reference to Jane Fonda. When a Spanish speaker hears "Jane" phonetically in Spanish, they can spell it two ways: "Yein" or "Llein," so the party venue's name is a word joke.
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