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Jane Seymour Fonda is an Academy Award winning American actress, model, writer, producer, activist and philanthropist. 1 Biography
Born December 21, 1937, in New York City, to actor Henry Fonda and socialite Frances Seymour Brokaw . She was named after Lady Jane Seymour, the third wife of King Henry VIII.
Jane's socialite mother (Henry Fonda's second of five wives), after voluntarily seeking help at an asylum, committed suicide by cutting her throat on October 1950, when Jane was 12 years old. Henry married actress Susan Blanchard (step-daughter of Oscar Hammerstein II, and eventual wife of Richard Widmark) eight months later, and throughout their six-year marriage, Blanchard helped to raise Jane and her brother, Peter.
Jane Fonda has been married three times:
- Her first husband (1965-73) was French film director Roger Vadim (b.1928-d.2000) with whom she had a daughter, Vanessa, named for Vanessa Redgrave, the well-known actorAn actor is a person who acts, or plays a role in an artistic production. The term commonly refers to someone working in movies, television, live theatre, or radio, and can occasionally denote a street entertainer. Besides playing dramatic roles, actors m and activist member of the Workers' Revolutionary PartyThe Workers' Revolutionary Party was a Trotskyist political party in the United Kingdom. The Club The WRP grew out of the faction Gerry Healy led in the Revolutionary Communist Party which urged that the RCP enter the Labour Party. This policy was also ur.
- Her second husband (1973-1990) was author and politician Tom Hayden2004 Democratic National Convention Thomas Emmett "Tom" Hayden (born December 11, 1939) is an American social and political activist and politician, most famous for his involvement in the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960s. Hayden was born i, by whom she has a son, Troy Garity , and an adopted daughterAdoption is the legal act of permanently placing a child with a parent or parents other than the birth parents. Adoption usually results in the severing of the parental responsibilities and rights of the biological parents and the placing of those respons.
- Her third husband (1991-2001) was American cable-television tycoon Ted TurnerRobert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American media mogul and philanthropist. He is best known for founding CNN and Turner Classic Movies, his failed marriage to Jane Fonda, and his $1 billion pledge to the United Nations (see Uni.
She has also had romantic relationships with:
- Alexander "Sandy" Whitelaw, director; involved 1960
- Donald Sutherland, actor; costarred in Klute; together 1970s
- Barry Matalon, hairdresser; together 1990s
Family Members:
- Brother: Peter Fonda, actor, director, producer
- Daughter: Vanessa Vadim; born in 1968; father, Roger Vadim; named after Vanessa Redgrave
- Son: Troy Garity, actor; born in 1973; father Tom Hayden; named after a Vietnamese resistance leader and given paternal grandmother's surname
- Daughter: adopted with Tom Hayden
- Niece: Bridget Fonda, actor; born in 1964; daughter of Peter Fonda
Her nickname as a youth -- Lady Jane, a moniker she reportedly disliked. She traveled to Russia in '64 and was impressed by the people, who welcomed her warmly as Henry's daughter. In the mid-'60s she bought a farm outside of Paris, she renovated it and did the garden herself. She visited Warhol's Factory in '66. About her '71 Oscar triumph, her father Henry said: "How in hell would you like to have been in this business as long as I and have one of your kids win an Oscar before you do?" Jane was on the cover of Life magazine, March 29, 1968. Early in her career she was extremely critical of her father, but in 1980 she bought the play On Golden Pond so that she could get Henry to star in it, hopefully to win the Oscar that had eluded him throughout his career. He won, and when she accepted the Oscar for him she said it was "the happiest night of my life." Director Roger Vadim once said about her: "Living with Jane was difficult in the beginning ... she had so many -- how do you say? -- bachelor habits. Too much organization. Time is her enemy. She cannot relax. Always there is something to do." Vadim also said about her: "There is also in Jane a basic wish to carry things to the limit."
