Jane Seymour Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an American actress, activist, and former fashion model. She is the recipient of various accolades including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Golden Lion Honorary Award, the Honorary Palme d'Or, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Born to socialite Frances Ford Seymour and actor Henry Fonda, Fonda made her acting debut with the 1960 Broadway play There Was a Little Girl, for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, and made her screen debut later the same year with the romantic comedy Tall Story. She rose to prominence during the 1960s with the comedies Period of Adjustment (1962), Sunday in New York (1963), Cat Ballou (1965), Barefoot in the Park (1967), and Barbarella (1968). Her first husband was Barbarella director Roger Vadim. A seven-time Academy Award nominee, she received her first nomination for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Actress twice in the 1970s, for Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978). Her other nominations were for Julia (1977), The China Syndrome (1979), On Golden Pond (1981), and The Morning After (1986). Consecutive hits Fun with Dick and Jane (1977), California Suite (1978), The Electric Horseman (1979), and 9 to 5 (1980) sustained Fonda's box-office drawing power, and she won a Primetime Emmy Award for her performance in the TV film The Dollmaker (1984). In 1982, she released her first exercise video, Jane Fonda's Workout, which became the highest-selling VHS of the 20th century. It would be the first of 22 such videos over the next 13 years, which would collectively sell over 17 million copies. Divorced from her second husband Tom Hayden, she married billionaire media mogul Ted Turner in 1991 and retired from acting, following a row of commercially unsuccessful films concluded by Stanley & Iris (1990). Fonda divorced Turner in 2001 and returned to the screen with the hit Monster-in-Law (2005). Although Georgia Rule (2007) was her only other movie during the 2000s, in the early 2010s she fully re-launched her career. Subsequent films have included The Butler (2013), This Is Where I Leave You (2014), Youth (2015), Our Souls at Night (2017), and Book Club (2018). In 2009, she returned to Broadway after a 49-year absence from the stage, in the play 33 Variations which earned her a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, while her major recurring role in the HBO drama series The Newsroom (2012–14) earned her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She also released another five exercise videos between 2009 and 2012. Fonda currently stars as Grace Hanson in the Netflix comedy series Grace and Frankie, which debuted in 2015 and has earned her nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Filmography

• 2026Gaslit — Self, Producer
• 2026Steal This Story, Please! — Executive Producer
• 2024My Way — Narrator (voice)
• 2024Norita — Executive Producer
• 2024This Is Me…Now — Sagittarius
• 202380 for Brady — Trish
• 2023Bad Luck Spot! — Babe the Dragon (voice)
• 2023Book Club: The Next Chapter — Vivian
• 2023Moving On — Claire
• 2023Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken — Grandmamah (voice)
• 2022Luck — Dragon (voice)
• 2021Stoner Cats — Ms. Stoner
• Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema — Narrator (voice)
• The Masked Singer — Special Message (via video)
• 2018Book Club — Vivian
• 2018Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
• 2017Elena of Avalor: Realm of the Jaquins — Shuriki (voice)
• 2017Mansfield 66/67
• 2017Our Souls at Night — Addie Moore
• 2016Elena and the Secret of Avalor — Shuriki (voice)
• 2015Fathers and Daughters — Theodora
• Grace and Frankie — Grace Hanson, Executive Producer
• 2015Youth — Brenda Morel
• 2014Better Living Through Chemistry — Pharmacy Customer
• 2014This Is Where I Leave You — Hillary Altman
• 2013The Butler — Nancy Reagan
• 2012All Together — Jeanne
• The Newsroom — Leona Lansing
• 2011Jane Fonda: Prime Time - Trim, Tone & Flex
• 2011Peace, Love & Misunderstanding — Grace
• 2007Georgia Rule — Georgia Randall
• 2005Monster-in-Law — Viola Fields
• The Comeback — Jane Fonda
• 1998French Love
• E! True Hollywood Story
• 1990Stanley & Iris — Iris King
• 1990The Earth Day Special — Hellen
• 1989Old Gringo — Harriet Winslow
• The Simpsons — Maxine Lombard (voice)
• 1988Jane Fonda's Complete Workout — Self, Casting
• 1987Leonard Part 6 — Jane Fonda (uncredited)
• 1986The Morning After — Alexandra Sternbergen
• 1985Agnes of God — Dr. Martha Louise Livingston
• 1984The Dollmaker — Gertie Nevels
• 9 to 5 — Producer
• Champs-Elysées — Self, Narratrice (voice) (archive footage)
• 1982Lily for President? — Judy Bernly
• 1981Lily: Sold Out — Wanda
• 1981On Golden Pond — Chelsea Thayer Wayne
• 1981Rollover — Lee Winters
• 1980Nine to Five — Judy Bernly
• 1979The China Syndrome — Kimberly Wells
• 1979The Electric Horseman — Hallie
• 1978California Suite — Hannah Warren
• 1978Comes a Horseman — Ella Connors
• 1978Coming Home — Sally Hyde
• 1977Fun with Dick and Jane — Jane Harper
• 1977Julia — Lillian Hellman
• 1976The Blue Bird — The Night
• 1973A Doll's House — Nora Helmer
• 1973Steelyard Blues — Iris Caine
• 1972FTA — Self, Writer, Producer
• 1972Nationtime: Gary — Producer
• 1972Tout Va Bien — Her, Suzanne
• 1971Klute — Bree Daniels
• 1969They Shoot Horses, Don't They? — Gloria Beatty
• 1968Barbarella — Barbarella
• 1968Spirits of the Dead — Contessa Frederique de Metzengerstein (segment "Metzengerstein")
• 1967Barefoot in the Park — Corie Bratter
• 1967Hurry Sundown — Julie Ann Warren
• 1966Any Wednesday — Ellen Gordon
• 1966The Chase — Anna Reeves
• 1966The Game Is Over — Renée Saccard
• 1965Cat Ballou — Catherine 'Cat' Ballou
• 1964Circle of Love — Sophie
• 1964Joy House — Melinda
• 1963In the Cool of the Day — Christine Bonner
• 1963Sunday in New York — Eileen Tyler
• World in Action
• 1962Period of Adjustment — Isabel Haverstick
• 1962The Chapman Report — Kathleen Barclay
• 1962Walk on the Wild Side — Kitty Twist
• 1961A String of Beads — Gloria Winters
• 1960Tall Story — June Ryder
• Ceasefire — Jean Kennedy Smith
• Jane Fonda's AM/PM Yoga For Beginners
• The Correspondent — Sybil Van Antwerp, Producer

Appearances as themselves (177)

• 2026Dolly Parton: An American Original – Special Edition of 20/20 — Self / Judy Bernly (archive footage)
• 2026Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald — Self (archive footage)
• 2025Chaos: The Manson Murders — Self - Activist (archive footage)
• David Frost Vs — self (archive footage)
• 2025Henry Fonda for President — Self (archive footage)
• 2025Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty — Self
• 2025Sally — Self (archive footage)
• Call Me Ted — self
• 2024Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island — Self
• 2024The Greatest Love Story Never Told — Self
• 2023A Journey to Sundance — Self
• 2023Barbarella Forever — Self
• Beau geste — Self
• 2023Paul Newman: The Restless — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Sex on Screen — Self
• 2023The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane — Herself
• 2023The Fondas: A Cinematic Dynasty — Self - Actress (archive footage)
• 2023Thriller 40 — Self (archive footage)
• 20222022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Body Parts — Self
• 2022Deneuve, la reine Catherine — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Jane Fonda & Lily Tomlin: Ladies Night Live — Self
• 2022La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Still Working 9 to 5 — Self
• 2022The Best of Netflix Is a Joke: The Festival — Self
• The Checkup with Dr. David Agus — Self
• The Kardashians — Self
• Train Like a Girl — Self (archive footage)
• Who's Talking to Chris Wallace? — Self
• 2021Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age — Self
• 2021Morceaux de Cannes — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Senior Entourage — Self
• 2021We Are Cinema — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Yearly Departed — Self
• 20209to5: The Story of a Movement — Self
• 2020Citizen Jane Fonda — Self (archive footage)
• Dear... — Self
• 2020Delphine and Carole — Self (archive footage)
• History 101 — Self (archive footage)
• The Drew Barrymore Show — Self
• 2020Waging Change — Self
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire — Self - Contestant
• 2019Alan Pakula: Going for Truth — Self
• 2019Dolly Parton: Here I Am — Self
• 2019Hal — Self
• 2019Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives — Self
• 2019Jane Fonda and Illeana Douglas on KLUTE — Self
• 2019Robert Scheer: Above the Fold — Self
• The Impeachment Show — Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self - Guest
• 2019WBCN and the American Revolution — Self
• Explained — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Feminists: What Were They Thinking? — Self
• 2018Jane Fonda in Five Acts — Self - (archive footage)
• Norm Macdonald Has a Show — Self - Guest
• Somebody Feed Phil — Self
• 2017David Hurn: A Life in Pictures — Self
• 2017The Fabulous Allan Carr — Self (archive footage)
• 2016Connected — Self-help Guru (voice)
• Full Frontal with Samantha Bee — Self
• 2016HyperNormalisation — Self (archive footage)
• 2016Vadim Mister Cool — Self (archive footage)
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• 2015Women He's Undressed — Self
• 2014And the Oscar Goes To... — Self - Interviewee
• 2014Becoming California — Self - Narrator
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self
• 2014Olga — Self
• 2014The (Dead Mothers) Club — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• Trailblazer Honors — Self - Speaker
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• 2012La Classe américaine — Self
• 2011Jane Fonda: Prime Time - Firm & Burn — Self
• 2011Miss Representation — Self
• Oprah's Master Class — Herself
• 2010Beautiful Darling — Self (archive footage)
• 2010Jane Fonda: Prime Time - Fit & Strong — Self
• 2010Jane Fonda: Prime Time - Walkout — Self
• The Talk — Self
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• 2008Dominick Dunne: After the Party — Self (archive footage)
• 2008New Line Cinema: The First Generation and the Next Generation — Self
• 2007AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition — Self
• 2007Brando — Self
• Brando: The Documentary — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• 2006Beautiful Daughters — Self
• 2006Stardust: The Bette Davis Story — Self
• 2005Danger: Diabolik - From Fumetti to Film — Self
• 2005Sir! No Sir! — Self
• The Colbert Report — Self - Guest
• The Reichen Show — Self
• Leçon de Cinéma — Self
• Parkinson — Self - Guest (archive footage)
• 2004Tell Them Who You Are — Self
• 2004The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent — Self
• 2004The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy — Self
• The Tony Danza Show — Self - Guest
• 2003Complicated Women — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• Real Time with Bill Maher — Self
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• 2002Heart of the Festival — Self (archive footage)
• 2002Searching for Debra Winger — Self
• The Early Show — Self - Guest
• Ein Herz für Kinder — Self
• Vivement dimanche — Self
• 1997Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero — Self
• Leute heute — Self
• The View — Self - Guest
• The Daily Show — Self, Self - Guest
• The Rosie O'Donnell Show — Self - Guest
• 1995The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies — Self
• 1994A Century of Cinema — Self
• Inside the Actors Studio — Self
• 1994Yoga Exercise Workout — Self
• 1992Fonda on Fonda — Self - Host
• 1992Jane Fonda's Step Aerobic and Abdominal Workout — Self
• 1990Night of 100 Stars III — Self
• 1988Gregory Peck: His Own Man — Self
• 1987Jane Fonda's Sports Aid — Self
• 1987Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star — Self (archive footage)
• The Dame Edna Experience — Self
• 1986Barbra Streisand: One Voice — Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
• 1986The Making of Captain EO — Self
• 1985Jane Fonda's New Workout — Self
• 1985We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song — Self - Host
• Goldene Kamera — Self
• 1984I Love Quincy — Self
• 1984Olympic Gala — Self - Host
• 1984The Stars Salute the U.S. Olympic Team — Self - Performer
• 1983Montgomery Clift — Self
• 1983Workout Challenge — Self
• 1982I Love Liberty — Self
• 1982Jane Fonda's Original Workout — Self
• 1982Night of 100 Stars — Self
• 1982Workout — Self
• 1981Be Pretty and Shut Up! — Self
• Entertainment Tonight — Self
• Wetten, dass..? — Self
• 1980Magic Night — Self
• 1980No Nukes — Self
• 1980The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's — Self (archive footage)
• Ciné regards — Self
• 1977Superstunt — Self
• 1975Anna — Self (uncredited)
• Apostrophes — Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Cameo (uncredited)
• Dinah! — Self
• 1974Introduction to the Enemy — Self
• 1974Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Spécial cinéma — Self
• 1973Jane — Self - Interviewee
• The American Film Institute Salute to ... — Self
• 1972Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary — Self
• 1971'Klute' in New York — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• 1970Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks — Self
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• 1964Filmmaking on the Riviera — Self
• Pour le plaisir — Self
• 1962Jane — Self
• The Merv Griffin Show — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self - Guest
• Tonight Starring Jack Paar — Self
• Cinépanorama — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Host
• The Oscars — Self
• Today — Self
• What's My Line? — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Winner
• Jane Fonda on Vietnam — Self
• Loving Against Time: the Making of On Golden Pond — Self