Jane Fonda said...

"To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power. "

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SUE MARTIN from AUCKLAND, NZ (August 28, 2010)
SOMEBODY APPROACHED ME YESTERDAY AND ASKED ME IF I'D EVER BEEN TOLD I LOOK LIKE JANE FONDA? MY FRIEND LAUGHED AS I AM VERY SENSITIVE ABOUT MY AGE AS I APPROACH 50 NEXT MONTH!I FELT RATHER (BUT NOT FULLY) INSULTED! SO TODAY I WENT ON THE INTERTNET TO LOOK AT SOME PHOTOS OF JANE FONDA AND ENQUIRE ABOUT HER AGE..... SHE IS 73 APPROACHING 74 THIS DECEMBER AND LOOKS FAB! NOW I AM VERY FLATTERED I HAVE TO SAY.
YOU GO GIRL!!!

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Jane Fonda is a writer, producer, and political activist known well for her numerous appearance in films during the 1960s. Many large political causes she has been involved with include Vietnam War and Iraq War activism.

Fonda's mother committed suicide when she was only twelve years old. Her brother is actor Peter Fonda. She also has an older half-sister, Frances Brokaw, and an adopted sister, Amy. Her father, Henry Fonda married Susan Blanchard after the suicide.

Fonda appeared in a charity performance, The Country Girl, with her father in 1954 and found her interest in acting. While attending Vassar College in New York she met Lee Stasberg and joined his acting studio. This stage work helped lauch her film career in the 1960s. Some films include Tall Story, Walk on the Wild Side, where she played a prostitute, Sunday in New York,and breakthrough film Cat Ballou in 1965. Barbarella in 1968 helped establish herself as a Hollywood sex symbol. By the end of the decade, Fonda had a stable reputation and became very selective, turning down many promising roles.

In 1871 Fonda won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as a prostitute in Klute. Between this film and Fun With Dick and Jane in 1977, Fonda found a period of film success. She vowed to only make films that focused on important issues. Nine to Five co-starring Dolly Parton, earned her a significant amount of money. Other feature films marked her career during the 1980s. She also began releasing exercise videos including Jane Fonda Workout and became known for the phrase "go for the burn" during this time.

She announced her retirement from the film industry in 1991, but returned to the screen in 2005 to appear in Monster-in-Law. She was asked recently if she would appear in a sequel to Nine to Five, and she replied "I'd love to." Fonda has received seven nominations and two Oscars in the course of her career.

She is a supporter of many feminist causes including The Vagina Monologues. She established teh Jane Fonda Center for Adolescent Reproductive Health at Emory University in 2002, which is a center for adolescent pregnancy prevention and promotion of women's reproductive rights.

Fonda considers herself a liberal Christian and is opposed to discrimination and dogma.

In 2005, she released her biography, My Life So Far. She states that the autobiography represents that "she is so much more than what America knows her as."

Fonda married Roger Vadim in 1965 and had one daughter, Vanessa, who was born in 1968. The couple divoced in 1973 and she married Tom Hayden; she and Hayden had one son, Troy Garity and raised a foster daughter, Mary Luana Williams. Fonda and Heyden divorced in 1990. She married Ted Turner in 1991 and divorced him in 2001. She also had relationships with Alexander Whitelaw, Donald Sutherland, and Barry Matalon.