American actress, writer, and activist with two Academy Awards, recognized for "Klute" and "Coming Home" and decades of political and environmental advocacy.
Background
Born in New York City to actor Henry Fonda and Frances Ford Brokaw, she attended Vassar College and trained with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio. Her brother Peter Fonda also acted.
Career
She crossed from the camp science-fiction “Barbarella” (1968) to politically charged dramas in the 1970s with Alan J. Pakula and Sydney Pollack. After a 15-year retirement she returned with “Monster-in-Law” (2005) and Netflix’s “Grace and Frankie”.
Style
Fonda’s workout videos in the 1980s sold tens of millions of copies. She founded the Fire Drill Fridays climate protests in 2019 and has authored memoirs covering activism during the Vietnam War to the present.
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