Jane Fonda

Jfonda.jpg (4165 bytes)Jane Fonda was born on 1937 in New York City. Jane Fonda was a motion-picture actor, a political activist, and a writer and producer of exercise books and videos. Her father is the very famous actor Henry Fonda, her brother Peter Fonda is also an actor. Jane Fonda married a French film director Roger Vadim. In 1971 Jane won an Academy award for Best Actress in "Klute." In 1972 Jane Fonda visited North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. People did not like what she did ad many were angry at her. She married Tom Hayden an American political activist. In 1977 Fonda formed her own company. In 1981 Fonda wrote the best selling workout book. In 1991 Fonda married a buisness executive Ted Turner. He owns the Atlanta Braves and the TV network TBS. After her marriage Fonda announced that she was giving up acting. The last picture she acted in was Stanley and Iris (1990).

 

1999, by Jeanine, fourth grade

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