Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda (December 21st 1937 with New York -) is a Actrice and producing a American, also feminist and militant pacifist.

Biography

His/her father is the actor Henry Fonda and his/her mother is Frances Brokaw (born Seymour). Its nickname took as a starting point that of Lady Jeanne Seymour, the third woman of the king Henri VIII. Jane is the sister of Peter Fonda and the aunt of Bridget Fonda.

The mother of Jane, Frances, was the second of the five women of Henry Fonda, and had been previously the wife of the millionaire George Brokaw, first husband of the écrivaine Clare Boothe Luce. After a voluntary placement in observation in a Asylum, Frances Fonda committed suicide by slicing the throat with a knife, in October 1950, whereas Jane was 12 years old. In 2005, in its memories, the actress writes that for her information retrieval, it was authorized to reach the psychiatric file of her mother and discovered that it had been sexually forced in her childhood, a traumatism which without any doubt contributed to its emotional and mental instability later.

Jane becomes a star international thanks to the adaptation of the novel of Horace McCoy by Sydney Pollack: One completes well the horses in 1969. In 1972, it turns with Yves Montand under the direction of Jean-Luc Godard and from Jean-Pierre Gorin in All goes well . Later, the two realizers in homage to the actress will make with the other a film: Letter to Jane where they comment on one hour during the photography of Jane taken at the time of its voyage to the Vietnam in full war, making at this time the headlines of the topicality.

Very politically committed, it became the egery of politicized America and protestor of the Années 1960. It actively supported the Mouvement Afro-American of the civic rights and defended the leader Huey P. Newton of the Black Panthers. She had also alerted the public opinion on the disastrous situation of the Amerindian S with the the United States and fought a long time for the women's rights, positioning as a " féministe". During the War of Vietnam, her standpoint against the US government of the time as its voyage to the Vietnam in 1972 where it went to return visist to isolated villager and prisoners of war, supporting the thesis according to whom Richard Nixon had given the order to bombard the system of dams of the rivers of communist North, fed the polemic a long time.

The photography where one saw it posing with a helmet and weapons near the Custom-Navy was highly criticized. 20 years afterwards, Jane expressed its regrets as for its installation on the photograph before raviser.

It ceased its career of actress at the beginning of the Années 1990, but from time to time appears in television serials and has just turned in the film Monster-in-Law .

It is in 2005 that it carries out its great return for the cinema with a comedy which opposes it to Jennifer Lopez: His/her mother or me .

Always very active politically, she souvement criticized the Administration Bush in particular on the military intervention in Iraq and the management of the damage caused by the Cyclone Katrina with the Orleans News. She militates today for the peace and the resolution of the israélo-Palestinian Conflit.

Speaking the perfectly French, it was married with the Réalisateur Roger Vadim, of which it had a girl, Vanessa. The scenario writer with Barbarella had made a Sex symbol of it years spixante. She then married an American press baron, Ted Turner, which she divorced in 2001.

Privileging a Cinema of committed author that it ends even up producing (like the Return ), Jane knew to be made a first name with Hollywood without on it the shade of his/her father planing. It obtained two Oscar S: one crowning its role of prostitute in police film Klute of Alan J. Pakula in 1972, the other distinguishing its service as a wife from veteran of the Vietnam in the Return of Hall Ashby in 1979. She gave the counterpart to her father Henry in her last film: the House of the lake , which it financed besides.

Honors

Oscar of the cinema

  • 1970 : nomination as a better actress, They Horses Shot, Don' T They?
  • 1971 : better actress , Klute
  • 1978: nomination as a better actress, Julia
  • 1978: better actress , Coming Home
  • 1980: nomination as a better actress, The Clouded Syndrome
  • 1982: nomination as a better supporting actor, One Golden delicious Lays
  • 1987: nomination as a better actress, The Morning After

Golden Globes

  • 1961 : actress with the best potential
  • 1971: better actress in a film (drama), Klute
  • 1972: universally favorite actress
  • 1977: better actress in a film (drama), Julia
  • 1978: universally favorite actress
  • 1978: better actress in a film (drama), Coming Home

Others

  • 1984, Emmy Awards, The Dollmaker

Catalog of films

Autobiography

  • Jane Fonda, My life (translated from English (the United States) by Marie-Helene Dumas). Paris: Plon editions, 2005. 590 p. - pp. of pl., 24 cm. ISBN 2-259-20281-0. Titrate original: My life so far .

Simple: Jane Fonda

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