Jane Fonda

 Born in New York City to legendary screen actor Henry Fonda and Ontario-born New York socialite Frances Seymour Brokaw, Jane Seymour Fonda was predestined from an early age to an uncommon and influential life in the limelight. She initially was not keen to follow in the footsteps of her father, but Joshua Logan encouraged her to participate in the 1954 Omaha Community Theatre production "The Country Girl". After having the pleasure of meeting Lee Strasberg, in 1958, her interest in acting was heightened. She became a member of the Actors Studio in 1960. Logan was the director of Tall Story (1960), her screen debut. This was the beginning of a lengthy and lucrative acting career, which has brought her two Academy Awards for Klute (1971), Coming Home (1978) as well as five Oscar nominations as Best Actress in They Shoot Horses. (1969), Julia (1977), The China Syndrome (1979), The Morning After (1986) and On Golden Pond (1981) that was the only film she made together with her father. Her professional success contrasted with her private life which was usually laden with scandal and controversy. Her appearance in several dangerous films (including Barbarella (1968)) by then-husband Roger Vadim was followed by what was to become her most controversial and debated period in her support of the cause of dissidents and particularly her anti-war activities in the Vietnam War. In the late 1970s and into the 1980s, she continued her political activities along with Tom Hayden, her husband and activist. She was the first to initiate the aerobic exercise craze in the late 1980s, following the release of Jane Fonda's Workout book. She and Hayden divorced and she was marrie