Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda is an American actress and activist whose screen career has spanned more than seven decades of film and television. Born in 1937 to the actor Henry Fonda and the socialite Frances Ford Seymour, she made her stage debut on Broadway in 1960 and became a leading Hollywood star with films such as Cat Ballou, Barefoot in the Park and Barbarella. She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress, for Klute and Coming Home, and a Primetime Emmy Award for The Dollmaker, and later starred in the Netflix series Grace and Frankie. In 1982 her exercise video Jane Fonda's Workout became the best-selling VHS tape ever, a landmark of the home video market. She is also known for her political activism, and she cofounded the Women's Media Center in 2005.