Jane Seymour Fonda was born on December 21,1937 and is an American actress, activist, and former fashion model.
117 Facts About Jane Fonda
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Jane Fonda then established herself as one of the most acclaimed actresses of her generation, winning the Academy Award for Best Actress twice in the 70s for Klute and Coming Home.
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Jane Fonda re-launched her acting career starring leading film roles in Youth, and Our Souls at Night, and in Netflix's comedy series Grace and Frankie for which she earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
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Jane Fonda was a political activist in the counterculture era during the Vietnam War.
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Jane Fonda was photographed sitting on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun on a 1972 visit to Hanoi, during which she gained the nickname "Hanoi Jane".
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Jane Fonda has protested the Iraq War and violence against women, and describes herself as a feminist and environmental activist.
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Jane Seymour Fonda was born via caesarean section on December 21,1937, at Doctors Hospital in New York City.
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Jane Fonda's parents were Canadian-born socialite Frances Ford Seymour and American actor Henry Fonda.
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Jane Fonda was named for the third wife of Henry VIII, Jane Seymour, to whom she is distantly related on her mother's side, and because of whom, until she was in fourth grade, Fonda said she was called "Lady".
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Jane Fonda's brother, Peter Fonda, was an actor, and her maternal half-sister is Frances de Villers Brokaw, whose daughter is Pilar Corrias, the owner of the Pilar Corrias Gallery in London.
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In 1950, when Jane Fonda was 12, her mother committed suicide while undergoing treatment at Craig House psychiatric hospital in Beacon, New York.
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Later that year, Henry Jane Fonda married socialite Susan Blanchard, 23 years his junior; this marriage ended in divorce.
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Aged 15, Jane Fonda taught dance at Fire Island Pines, New York.
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Jane Fonda attended Greenwich Academy in Greenwich, Connecticut; the Emma Willard School in Troy, New York; and Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
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Jane Fonda became interested in the arts in 1954, while appearing with her father in a charity performance of The Country Girl at the Omaha Community Playhouse.
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Jane Fonda averaged almost two movies a year throughout the decade, starting in 1960 with Tall Story, in which she recreated one of her Broadway roles as a college cheerleader pursuing a basketball star, played by Anthony Perkins.
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In Walk on the Wild Side, Jane Fonda played a prostitute, and earned a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer.
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Jane Fonda was offered the coveted role of Lara in Doctor Zhivago, but turned it down because she didn't want to go on location for nine months.
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Jane Fonda immediately sued the magazine for publishing them without her consent.
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Jane Fonda goes all the way with it, as screen actresses rarely do once they become stars.
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Jane Fonda doesn't try to save some ladylike part of herself, the way even a good actress like Audrey Hepburn does, peeping at us from behind 'vulgar' roles to assure us she's not really like that.
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Jane Fonda stands a good chance of personifying American tensions and dominating our movies in the seventies as Bette Davis did in the thirties.
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Jane Fonda was very selective by the end of the decade, turning down lead roles in Rosemary's Baby and Bonnie and Clyde.
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Jane Fonda has somehow got to a plane of acting at which even the closest closeup never reveals a false thought and, seen on the movie streets a block away, she's Bree, not Jane Fonda, walking toward us.
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Jane Fonda appeared in A Doll's House, Steelyard Blues and The Blue Bird.
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Jane Fonda is a splendid actress with a strong analytical mind which sometimes gets in her way, and with an incredible technique and control of emotion; she can cry at will, on cue, mere drops or buckets, as the scene demands.
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In 1972, Jane Fonda starred as a reporter alongside Yves Montand in Tout Va Bien, directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin.
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Jane Fonda turned down An Unmarried Woman because she felt the part was not relevant.
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In 1978, Jane Fonda was at a career peak after she won her second Best Actress Oscar for her role as Sally Hyde, a conflicted adulteress in Coming Home, the story of a disabled Vietnam War veteran's difficulty in re-entering civilian life.
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Jane Fonda won her second BAFTA Award for Best Actress in 1979 with The China Syndrome, about a cover-up of a vulnerability in a nuclear power plant.
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Jane Fonda's performance is not that of an actress in a star's role, but that of an actress creating a character that happens to be major within the film.
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In 1980, Jane Fonda starred in 9 to 5 with Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton.
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Jane Fonda had long wanted to work with her father, hoping it would help their strained relationship.
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Jane Fonda achieved this goal when she purchased the screen rights to the play On Golden Pond, specifically for her father and her.
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On Golden Pond, which starred four-time Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn, brought Henry Fonda his only Academy Award for Best Actor, which Jane accepted on his behalf, as he was ill and could not leave home.
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Jane Fonda has appeared in feature films throughout the 1980s, winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress for her portrayal of a Kentucky mountain woman in The Dollmaker, and starring in the role of Dr Martha Livingston in Agnes of God.
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In preparation for her role, Jane Fonda modelled the character on the starlet Gail Russell, who, at 36, was found dead in her apartment, among empty liquor bottles.
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Jane Fonda ended the decade by appearing in Old Gringo.
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For many years Jane Fonda took ballet class to keep fit, but after fracturing her foot while filming The China Syndrome, she was no longer able to participate.
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In 1982, Fonda released her first exercise video, titled Jane Fonda's Workout, inspired by her best-selling book, Jane Fonda's Workout Book.
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Jane Fonda's Workout became the highest selling home video of the next few years, selling over a million copies.
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Jane Fonda released five workout books and thirteen audio programs, through 1995.
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Two years later, Jane Fonda starred in the Garry Marshall-directed drama Georgia Rule alongside Felicity Huffman and Lindsay Lohan.
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In 2009, Jane Fonda returned to Broadway for the first time since 1963, playing Katherine Brandt in Moises Kaufman's 33 Variations.
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Jane Fonda played a leading role in the 2011 drama All Together, which was her first film in French since Tout Va Bien in 1972.
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In 2012, Jane Fonda began a recurring role as Leona Lansing, CEO of a major media company, in HBO's original political drama The Newsroom.
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Jane Fonda's role continued throughout the show's three seasons, and Fonda received two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.
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In 2013, Jane Fonda had a small role in The Butler, portraying First Lady Nancy Reagan.
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Jane Fonda had more film work the following year, appearing in the comedies Better Living Through Chemistry and This is Where I Leave You.
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Jane Fonda voiced Maxine Lombard in the season 26 episode "Opposites A-Frack".
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Jane Fonda played an acting diva in Paolo Sorrentino's Youth in 2015, for which she earned a Golden Globe Award nomination.
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Jane Fonda appeared in Fathers and Daughters with Russell Crowe.
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Jane Fonda appeared as the co-lead in the Netflix series Grace and Frankie.
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In 2016, Jane Fonda voiced Shuriki in Elena and the Secret of Avalor.
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Jane Fonda starred in her fourth collaboration with Robert Redford in the 2017 romantic drama film Our Souls at Night.
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The film and Jane Fonda's performance received critical acclaim upon release.
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Jane Fonda filmed the seventh and final season of Grace and Frankie in 2021, finishing production in November.
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In November 2021, it was announced Jane Fonda would be in the second installment of Amazon Prime Video's Yearly Departed.
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Jane Fonda joined the cast of the 2023 film 80 for Brady, which pairs her with veteran actresses Lily Tomlin, Rita Moreno, and Sally Field.
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The tour, described as "political vaudeville" by Jane Fonda, visited military towns along the West Coast, aiming to establish a dialogue with soldiers about their upcoming deployments to Vietnam.
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Jane Fonda offered to help raise funds for VVAW and was rewarded with the title of Honorary National Coordinator.
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On November 3,1970, Jane Fonda started a tour of college campuses on which she raised funds for the organization.
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Jane Fonda visited Vietnam, traveling to Hanoi in July 1972 to witness firsthand the bombing damage to the dikes.
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Jane Fonda made radio broadcasts on Hanoi Radio throughout her two-week tour, describing her visits to villages, hospitals, schools, and factories that had been bombed, and denouncing US military policy.
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In 1972, Jane Fonda helped fund and organize the Indochina Peace Campaign, which continued to mobilize antiwar activists in the US after the 1973 Paris Peace Agreement, until 1975 when the United States withdrew from Vietnam.
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Jane Fonda stated that the incident was a "betrayal" of American forces and of the "country that gave me privilege".
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In 2013, it was revealed that Jane Fonda was one of approximately 1,600 Americans whose communications between 1967 and 1973 were monitored by the United States National Security Agency as part of Project MINARET, a program that some NSA officials have described as "disreputable if not downright illegal".
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On November 3,1970, Jane Fonda was arrested by authorities at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport on suspicion of drug trafficking.
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Jane Fonda's luggage was searched when she re-entered the United States after participating in an anti-war college speaking tour in Canada, and several small baggies containing pills were seized.
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Jane Fonda alleged that the arresting officer told her he was acting on direct orders from the Nixon White House.
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Jane Fonda said that her difficult past led her to become such a passionate activist for women's rights.
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Jane Fonda said she was "brought up with the disease to please" in her early life.
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Jane Fonda has been a longtime supporter of feminist causes, including V-Day, of which she is an honorary chairperson, a movement to stop violence against women, inspired by the off-Broadway hit The Vagina Monologues.
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Jane Fonda was at the first summit in 2002, bringing together founder Eve Ensler, Afghan women oppressed by the Taliban, and a Kenyan activist campaigning to save girls from genital mutilation.
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On February 16,2004, Jane Fonda led a march through Ciudad Juarez, with Sally Field, Eve Ensler and other women, urging Mexico to provide sufficient resources to newly appointed officials in helping investigate the murders of hundreds of women in the rough border city.
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In My Life So Far, Jane Fonda stated that she considers patriarchy to be harmful to men as well as women.
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In March 2020, Jane Fonda later endorsed Sanders for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 election, calling him the "climate candidate".
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Jane Fonda has publicly shown her support of the LGBTQ+ community many times throughout her career.
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Jane Fonda spoke out as an LGBTQ+ ally long before it was common.
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Jane Fonda appeared in a video of a 1979 interview during the White Night Riots in San Francisco after the assassination of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay politician in California.
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Jane Fonda went to Seattle, in 1970 to support a group of Native Americans who were led by Bernie Whitebear.
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In December 2002, Jane Fonda visited Israel and the West Bank as part of a tour focusing on stopping violence against women.
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Jane Fonda demonstrated with Women in Black against Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip outside the residence of Israel's Prime Minister.
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Jane Fonda later visited Jewish and Arab doctors, and patients at a Jerusalem hospital, followed by visits to Ramallah to see a physical rehabilitation center and Palestinian refugee camp.
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Jane Fonda argued that the Iraq War would turn people all over the world against America, and asserted that a global hatred of America would result in more terrorist attacks in the aftermath of the war.
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In July 2005, Jane Fonda announced plans to make an anti-war bus tour in March 2006 with her daughter and several families of military veterans, saying that some war veterans she had met while on her book tour had urged her to speak out against the Iraq War.
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Jane Fonda later canceled the tour due to concerns that she would divert attention from Cindy Sheehan's activism.
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Jane Fonda canceled her appearances at the last minute, citing instructions from her doctors to avoid travel following recent hip surgery.
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On January 27,2007, Jane Fonda participated in an anti-war rally and march held on the National Mall in Washington, DC, declaring that "silence is no longer an option".
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Jane Fonda spoke at an anti-war rally earlier that day at the Navy Memorial, where members of the organization Free Republic picketed in a counter protest.
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In 2015, Jane Fonda expressed disapproval of President Barack Obama's permitting of Arctic drilling at the Sundance Film Festival.
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In October 2019, Jane Fonda was arrested three times in consecutive weeks protesting climate change outside the United States Capitol in Washington, DC She was arrested with members of the group Oil Change International on October 11, with Grace and Frankie co-star Sam Waterston on October 18, and with actor Ted Danson on October 25.
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On December 5,2019, Jane Fonda explained her position in a New York Times op-ed.
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In January 2009, Jane Fonda began chronicling her return to Broadway in a blog with posts about topics ranging from her Pilates class to fears and excitement about her new play.
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Jane Fonda marketed her highly successful line of exercise videos and books in order to fund the Campaign for Economic Democracy, a California lobbying organization she founded with her second husband Tom Hayden in 1978.
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Jane Fonda has established the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential in the mid-1990s and the Jane Fonda Family Foundation in the late 1990s.
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Jane Fonda writes in her autobiography that she lost her virginity at age 18 to actor James Franciscus.
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Jane Fonda has acknowledged that during this period, like many single women in Hollywood, she occasionally bearded for closeted homosexuals, including dancer Timmy Everett and theater director Andreas Voutsinas.
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On January 19,1973, three days after obtaining a divorce from Vadim in Santo Domingo, Jane Fonda married activist Tom Hayden in a free-form ceremony at her home in Laurel Canyon.
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Jane Fonda had become involved with Hayden the previous summer, and was three months pregnant when they married.
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In 1989, while estranged from Hayden, Jane Fonda had a seven-month relationship with soccer player Lorenzo Caccialanza.
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Jane Fonda married her third husband, cable television tycoon and CNN founder Ted Turner, on December 21,1991, at a ranch near Capps, Florida, about 20 miles east of Tallahassee.
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Seven years of celibacy followed, then from 2007 to 2008 Jane Fonda was the companion of widowered management consultant Lynden Gillis.
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In mid-2009, Jane Fonda began a relationship with record producer Richard Perry.
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Jane Fonda grew up atheist but turned to Christianity in the early 2000s.
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Jane Fonda describes her beliefs as being "outside of established religion" with a more feminist slant and views God as something that "lives within each of us as Spirit ".
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Jane Fonda once refused to say "Jesus Christ" in Grace and Frankie and requested a script change.
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Jane Fonda was a good man, and I was mad for him, but he sent messages to me that fathers should not send: Unless you look perfect, you're not going to be loved.
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Jane Fonda was diagnosed with breast cancer and osteoporosis in her later years.
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Jane Fonda underwent a lumpectomy in November 2010 and recovered.
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On September 2,2022, Jane Fonda announced that she has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and that she had begun chemotherapy treatments, expected to last six months.
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On December 15,2022, Jane Fonda stated that her cancer was in remission and that her chemotherapy would be discontinued.
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In 1962, Jane Fonda was given the honorary title of "Miss Army Recruiting" by the Pentagon.
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In 2007, Jane Fonda was awarded an Honorary Palme d'Or by Cannes Film Festival President Gilles Jacob for career achievement.
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In December 2008, Jane Fonda was inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts.
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Jane Fonda was selected as the 42nd recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award.
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Jane Fonda was one of fifteen women selected to appear on the cover of the September 2019 issue of British Vogue, by guest editor Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.