• Name: Jane Fonda
  • Date of Birth: December 21, 1937
  • Place of Birth: New York, New York, USA
Mini-bio: Born in New York City to legendary screen star Henry Fonda and New York socialite Frances Seymour Brokaw, Jane Seymour Fonda was destined early to an uncommon and influential life in the limelight. Al...( read more)though she initially showed little inclination to follow her father's trade, she was prompted by Joshua Logan to appear with her father in the 1954 Omaha Community Theatre production of "The Country Girl". Her interest in acting grew after meeting Lee Strasberg in 1958 and joining the Actors Studio. Her screen debut in Tall Story (1960) (directed by Logan) marked the beginning of a highly successful and respected acting career highlighted by two Academy Awards (for her performances in Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978)) and five Oscar nominations (for Best Actress in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), Julia (1977), The Morning After (1986) and On Golden Pond (1981), which was the only film she made with her father). Her professional success contrasted with her personal life, which was often laden with scandal and controversy. Her appearance in several risqué movies (including Barbarella (1968), directed by her then-husband Roger Vadim) was followed by what was to become her most debated and controversial period: her espousal of anti-establishment causes and especially her anti-war activities during the Vietnam War. Her political involvement continued with fellow activist and husband Tom Hayden in the 1970s and early 1980s. In the 1980s she started the aerobic exercise craze with the publication of the "Jane Fonda's Workout Book". She and Hayden divorced, and she married broadcasting mogul Ted Turner in 1991.
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Jane FondaJane Fonda mini-bio: Born in New York City to legendary screen star Henry Fonda and New York socialite Frances Seymour Brokaw, Jane Seymour Fonda was destined early to an uncommon and influential life in the limelight. Although she initially showed little inclination to follow her father's trade, she was prompted by Joshua Logan to appear with her father in the 1954 Omaha Community Theatre production of "The Country Girl". Her interest in acting grew after meeting Lee Strasberg in 1958 and joining the Actors Studio. Her screen debut in Tall Story (1960) (directed by Logan) marked the beginning of a highly successful and respected acting career highlighted by two Academy Awards (for her performances in Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978)) and five Oscar nominations (for Best Actress in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), Julia (1977), The Morning After (1986) and On Golden Pond (1981), which was the only film she made with her father). Her professional success contrasted with her personal life, which was often laden with scandal and controversy. Her appearance in several risqué movies (including Barbarella (1968), directed by her then-husband Roger Vadim) was followed by what was to become her most debated and controversial period: her espousal of anti-establishment causes and especially her anti-war activities during the Vietnam War. Her political involvement continued with fellow activist and husband Tom Hayden in the 1970s and early 1980s. In the 1980s she started the aerobic exercise craze with the publication of the "Jane Fonda's Workout Book". She and Hayden divorced, and she married broadcasting mogul Ted Turner in 1991.

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Jane Fonda Information:
Eye color: Blue
Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m)
Nickname(s): Hanoi Jane
Lady Jane (childhood)
Notable feature(s):
Education: She attended Greenwich Academy in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Family: Jane Fonda was born in New York City, the daughter of actor Henry Fonda and socialite Frances Ford Seymour, and named Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda. Henry Fonda had distant Dutch ancestry, and the surname Fonda originates from Eagum, also spelled Augum or Agum, a village in the heart of Friesland, a northern province of the Netherlands. The "Lady" part of Jane Fonda's name was apparently inspired by Lady Jane Seymour, to whom she is distantly related on her mother's side. Her brother, Peter Fonda (born 1940), and her niece Bridget Fonda (born 1964), are also actors.
Resides in: Atlanta, Georgia
Religious affiliations: Since 2001, Jane Fonda has been a Christian.
Political affiliation: Jane Fonda has served as an activist for many political causes, one of the most notable and controversial of which was her opposition to the Vietnam War. She has also protested the Iraq War and violence against women. She describes herself as a liberal and a feminist.
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Comments

  • cathydaniel611
    My Father was a world war 11 vet and he really hated jane. He said she was a trader and she should have been made to leave the U.S.A. I think we all should back our men in the Armed forces no matter what....they are fighting for us nomatter how you look at it. I love the United States and the Men and Woman who fight for us.
    posted 10 days ago
  • doraclaire
    she looks really young in her profile picture, but in some of her movies she looks older
    posted 248 days ago
  • ben1832
    Jane's a pile of garbage! She should move her sorry ass to North Vietnam. And if you're a fan of this worthless traitor to the USA, you're as bad as she is. And to the idiot who said such things can't be said if you've never met her, to him I say: if I ever do have the chance to meet her, I'll give her the old right hook! TO hell with the consequences...it would be worth it!!!
    posted 396 days ago
  • aztxn
    Jane Fonda is a disgrace to America. Maybe she should move to North Vietnam.
    posted 447 days ago
  • JPfeiffer
    My North Vietnamese captors deliberately
    poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a
    nurse in a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot, South
    Vietnam , whom I buried in the jungle near the
    Cambodian border.
    At one time, I weighed only about 90 lbs.
    (My normal weight is 170 lbs.)


    We were Jane Fonda's 'war criminals.'
    When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi , I was asked by
    the camp communist political officer if I would
    be willing to meet with her.
    I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real
    treatment we POWs received... and how
    different it was from the treatment purported by
    the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as
    'humane and lenient.'
    Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky
    floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched
    with a large steel weights placed on my hands,
    and beaten with a bamboo cane.
    I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda
    soon after I was released.
    I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV.
    She never did answer me.
    These first-hand experiences do not exemplify
    someone who should be honored as part of '100 Years of Great Women.'
    Lest we forget...' 100 Years of Great Women'
    should never include a traitor whose hands are
    covered with the blood of so many patriots.
    There are few things I have strong visceral
    reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation in
    blatant treason, is one of them.
    Please take the time to forward to as many
    people as you possibly can.
    It will eventually end up on her computer and
    she needs to know that we will never forget.
    RONALD D. SAMPSON, CMSgt, USAF
    716 Maintenance Squadron, Chief of
    Maintenance
    DSN: 875-6431
    COMM: 883-6343

    posted 513 days ago
  • JPfeiffer
    Three men died from the subsequent beatings.
    Colonel Carrigan was almost number four
    but he survived, which is the only reason we
    know of her actions that day.
    I was a civilian economic development advisor
    in Vietnam , and was captured by the North
    Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in
    1968, and held prisoner for over 5 years.
    I spent 27 months in solitary confinement; one
    year in a cage in Cambodia ; and one year
    in a 'black box' in Hanoi .
    My North Vietnamese captors deliberately
    poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a
    nurse in a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot, South
    Vietnam , whom I buried in the jungle near the
    Cambodian border.
    At one time, I weighed only about 90 lbs.
    (My normal weight is 170 lbs.)


    We were Jane Fonda's 'war criminals.'
    When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi , I was asked by
    the camp communist political officer if I would
    be willing to meet with her.
    I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real
    treatment we POWs received... and how
    different it was from the treatment purported by
    the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as
    'humane and lenient.'
    Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky
    floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched
    with a large steel weights placed on my hands,
    and beaten with a bamboo cane.
    I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda
    soon after I was released.
    I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV.
    She never did answer me.
    These first-hand experiences do not exemplify
    someone who should be honored as part of '100 Years of Great Women.'
    Lest we forget...' 100 Years of Great Women'
    should never include a traitor whose hands are
    covered with the blood of so many patriots.
    There are few things I have strong visceral
    reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation in
    blatant treason, is one of them.
    Please take the time to forward to as many
    people as you possibly can.
    It will eventually end up on her computer and
    she needs to know that we w
    posted 513 days ago
  • JPfeiffer
    FUCK JANE FONDA!
    She took them all without missing a beat. At the
    end of the line and once the camera stopped
    rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs,
    she turned to the officer in charge and handed
    him all the little pieces of paper.

    Three men died from the subsequent beatings.
    Colonel Carrigan was almost number four
    but he survived, which is the only reason we
    know of her actions that day.
    I was a civilian economic development advisor
    in Vietnam , and was captured by the North
    Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in
    1968, and held prisoner for over 5 years.
    I spent 27 months in solitary confinement; one
    year in a cage in Cambodia ; and one year
    in a 'black box' in Hanoi .
    My North Vietnamese captors deliberately
    poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a
    nurse in a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot, South
    Vietnam , whom I buried in the jungle near the
    Cambodian border.
    At one time, I weighed only about 90 lbs.
    (My normal weight is 170 lbs.)


    We were Jane Fonda's 'war criminals.'
    When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi , I was asked by
    the camp communist political officer if I would
    be willing to meet with her.
    I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real
    treatment we POWs received... and how
    different it was from the treatment purported by
    the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as
    'humane and lenient.'
    Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky
    floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched
    with a large steel weights placed on my hands,
    and beaten with a bamboo cane.
    I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda
    soon after I was released.
    I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV.
    She never did answer me.
    These first-hand experiences do not exemplify
    someone who should be honored as part of '100 Years of Great Women.'
    Lest we forget...' 100 Years of Great Women'
    should never include a traitor whose hands are
    covered with the blood of so many patriots.
    There are few things I ha
    posted 513 days ago
  • JPfeiffer
    When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a
    cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each
    man's hand and asking little encouraging
    snippets like: 'Aren't you sorry you bombed
    babies?' and 'Are you grateful for the humane
    treatment from your benevolent captors?'
    Believing this HAD to be an act, they each
    palmed her their sliver of paper.
    She took them all without missing a beat. At the
    end of the line and once the camera stopped
    rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs,
    she turned to the officer in charge and handed
    him all the little pieces of paper.

    Three men died from the subsequent beatings.
    Colonel Carrigan was almost number four
    but he survived, which is the only reason we
    know of her actions that day.
    I was a civilian economic development advisor
    in Vietnam , and was captured by the North
    Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in
    1968, and held prisoner for over 5 years.
    I spent 27 months in solitary confinement; one
    year in a cage in Cambodia ; and one year
    in a 'black box' in Hanoi .
    My North Vietnamese captors deliberately
    poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a
    nurse in a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot, South
    Vietnam , whom I buried in the jungle near the
    Cambodian border.
    At one time, I weighed only about 90 lbs.
    (My normal weight is 170 lbs.)


    We were Jane Fonda's 'war criminals.'
    When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi , I was asked by
    the camp communist political officer if I would
    be willing to meet with her.
    I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real
    treatment we POWs received... and how
    different it was from the treatment purported by
    the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as
    'humane and lenient.'
    Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky
    floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched
    with a large steel weights placed on my hands,
    and beaten with a bamboo cane.
    I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda
    soon after I was released.
    I asked her if she would be willing to debate me
    posted 513 days ago
  • JPfeiffer
    Fuck Fane Fonda. Please read below:
    Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still
    countless others have never known how Ms.
    Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country,
    but specific men who served and sacrificed
    during Vietnam

    The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot
    The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat.
    In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF
    Survival School was a POW in Ho Lo Prison
    the ' Hanoi Hilton.'
    Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell,
    cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ's, he was
    ordered to describe for a visiting American
    'Peace Activist' the 'lenient and humane
    treatment' he'd received.

    He spat at Ms. Fonda,
    was clubbed and was dragged away.
    During the subsequent beating, he fell forward
    on to the camp Commandant 's feet which
    sent that officer berserk

    In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from
    double vision (which permanently ended his
    flying career) from the Commandant's frenzied
    application of a wooden baton.
    From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the
    47FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the
    'Hanoi Hilton',,, the first three of which his
    family only knew he was 'missing in action'.
    His wife lived on faith that he was still alive.
    His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and
    get word to the world that they were alive
    and still survived.. Each man secreted a tiny
    piece of paper, with his Social Security Number
    on it, in the palm of his hand..

    When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a
    cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each
    man's hand and asking little encouraging
    snippets like: 'Aren't you sorry you bombed
    babies?' and 'Are you grateful for the humane
    treatment from your benevolent captors?'
    Believing this HAD to be an act, they each
    palmed her their sliver of paper.
    She took them all without missing a beat. At the
    end of the line and once the camera stopped
    rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs,
    she turned to the officer in charge and hand
    posted 513 days ago
  • jhar26
    I adore Jane. She's my heroine. God bless you Jane Fonda, you're fab.
    posted 689 days ago

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