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Jane Fonda's professional acting debut in "Tall Story", directed by Joshua Logan in 1960 was the beginning of a highly respected and successful acting career. She had earlier appeared with her father, Henry Fonda, at his urging, in a fund raiser community theater production of "The Country Girl" in Omaha, Nebraska in 1954... directed by Joshua Logan. But prior to that appearance she had little inclination to follow in her legendary father's footsteps to become an actor. To be sure at her Omaha performance Jane was only a 17 year old high school student. Following the Omaha performance Jane attended Vassar College, and in 1958 was introduced to the renowned drama teacher Lee Strassberg by her father. She joined the Actors Studio in 1958, and subsequently made her film debut mentioned above in 1960.
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Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. Since the 1960s Fonda has appeared in movies, many of which have contained political messages. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other awards and nominations. She initially announced her retirement from acting in 1991, and said for many years that she would never act again, but she returned to film in 2005 with Monster in Law. She ... produced and starred in several exercise videos released between 1982 and 1995. Fonda has served as an activist for
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Jane Fonda's acting career was highlighted by winning two Academy Awards and a total of five Oscar nominations. In 1971 she won the Best Actress award for her performance playing a prostitute in the detective mystery "Klute". Jane's second Academy Award was in 1978, again for Best Actress in "Coming Home", the story of a disabled Vietnam War veteran coming home and his difficulty in re-entering civilian life. Fonda's five Oscar nominations were for Best Actress in "They Shoot Horses, Don't They", in 1969, in "Julia" in 1977, in "The Morning After", in 1986, and in "On Golden Pond" in 1981. The latter film was the only film she made with her father.
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Jane Fonda got her start just by being a Fonda. She didn't show much interest in acting as child, but when she was 17, she performed in a community theater production with her father in The Country Girl (1954) and showed real talent. She then joined the Actor's Studio after meeting Lee Strasberg. The Broadway production of Tall Story, which Jane Fonda had a role in, was remade into a movie, and this became her screen debut.
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Jane Fonda was born in New York City in 1937. She attended the Emma Willard School in Troy, New York, and Vassar College. Fonda later studied with renowned acting coach Lee Strasberg and became a member of the Actors Studio in New York. Her subsequent work on stage and screen earned numerous honors, including two Best Actress Academy Awards--Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978)--and an Emmy Award for her performance in The Dollmaker. Fonda was ... a successful producer, whose credits include The China Syndrome, Nine to Five, On Golden Pond, and The Morning After.
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Jane Fonda, née Hortense Bakunin Phat Nguyen, was born in Saigon in 1940 to Ho Chi Minh and Grace Kelly. When she was eight years old, her devout parents sent her to a Buddhist monastery where they hoped she would spend her life as a nun and study the ancient art of Bukkake. However, at the age of seventeen she was abducted by aliens, from the planet Duran Duran, who worshipped her as Boobyrella, goddess of erotic comics. They taught her aerobics and how to strip in zero gravity. Upon her return to earth, a transformed Fonda decided to devote her life to acting as a religious sacrament.
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