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7	->''"You can do one of two things: just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do."''
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9	Jane Seymour Fonda (born December 21, 1937 in New York City) is an American actress, political activist, and former fashion model. Daughter of the legendary Creator/HenryFonda, she followed her father into acting. She is the sister of Creator/PeterFonda and aunt of Creator/BridgetFonda. After achieving a great deal of notability (as well as [[MsFanservice a large male fanbase]]) for her roles in such films as ''Film/CatBallou'', ''Theatre/BarefootInThePark'', ''Film/{{Barbarella}}'', ''Film/TheyShootHorsesDontThey'', and ''Film/{{Klute}}'', for which she won an [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]], she pulled the PR gaffe to end all PR gaffes.
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11	Fonda, like [[NewAgeRetroHippie many of her generation]], protested UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. However, going to Hanoi in 1972[[note]]As the US never declared war against North Vietnam, it was not uncommon for Americans anti-war activists like Women Strike for Peace to visit American [=POWs=] there and bring home their letters.[[/note]] and publicly supporting North Vietnam (including allowing herself to be photographed sitting on an AA gun) was a step too far for the American public, gaining her the nickname [[TokyoRose "Hanoi Jane"]]. She later apologized for the photo, but maintained her opposition to the Vietnam War, and [[NeverLiveItDown many Americans still see her as a traitor]]. For many decades, "latrine targets" with her picture are commonly found in US military urinals. It didn't help that she also made broadcasts on Radio Hanoi that (whether intended to or not) were exploited by the North Vietnamese for propaganda purposes, and helped in using American [=POWs=] as props at a staged press conference to "prove" to the world that [[BlatantLies those POWs were not actually being mistreated and were merely opportunistic liars]], and for years after the war insisted that the torture was not systemic. (That said, the second part of the story -- that Fonda deliberately betrayed [=POWs=] who asked her to smuggle messages back home to their captors -- [[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jane-fonda-pows/ was totally made up]].)
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13	Her career waned in the mid-[[TheSeventies '70s]], but she made a successful comeback at the end of that decade, winning her second Oscar for the 1978 Vietnam War film ''Film/ComingHome''. In 1980, she had one of her greatest commercial successes with ''Film/NineToFive''. In 1981, she appeared [[RealLifeRelative as Henry Fonda's daughter]] in ''Theatre/OnGoldenPond''.
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15	In TheEighties, she released a series of very successful workout videos, popularizing aerobics. In 1990 she retired from filmmaking, but returned in 2005 with ''Film/MonsterInLaw''. In 2009 she appeared on Broadway again for the first time in 46 years, in ''33 Variations'', a play about a scholar of the work of Music/LudwigVanBeethoven. Between 2012 and 2014, she appeared in a recurring role in the TV series ''Series/TheNewsroom''. Between 2015 and 2022 she has starred in the Creator/{{Netflix}} original series ''Series/GraceAndFrankie.''
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17	An outspoken liberal, she has been politically active in several causes; she has supported [[UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement civil rights]], the feminist movement, and Native American rights, and opposed the Iraq War. She was married three times, to director Roger Vadim (1965-1973), political activist Tom Hayden (1973-1990) and media mogul UsefulNotes/TedTurner (1990-2001); all three marriages ended with divorce.
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19	She has won two Oscars (for ''Klute'' and ''Coming Home'') and has been nominated for five more (for ''They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'', ''Julia'', ''The China Syndrome'', ''On Golden Pond'', and ''The Morning After'').
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21	Oh, and she [[http://www.cc.com/video-playlists/kw3fj0/the-opposition-with-jordan-klepper-welcome-to-the-opposition-w--jordan-klepper/8ixf7m has made out with]] Creator/StephenColbert.
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24	!!Partial filmography:
25	* ''Film/CatBallou'' (1965)
26	* ''Film/HurrySundown'' (1967)
27	* ''Theatre/BarefootInThePark'' (1967)
28	* ''Film/{{Barbarella}}'' (1968)
29	* ''Film/SpiritsOfTheDead'' (1968)
30	* ''Film/TheyShootHorsesDontThey'' (1969)
31	* ''Film/{{Klute}}'' (1971)
32	* ''Theatre/TheBlueBird'' (1976)
33	* ''Film/FunWithDickAndJane'' (1977)
34	* ''Film/{{Julia}}'' (1977)
35	* ''Film/CaliforniaSuite'' (1978)
36	* ''Film/ComingHome'' (1978)
37	* ''Film/TheChinaSyndrome'' (1979)
38	* ''Film/TheElectricHorseman'' (1979)
39	* ''Film/NineToFive'' (1980)
40	* ''Theatre/OnGoldenPond'' (1981)
41	* ''Film/AgnesOfGod'' (1985)
42	* ''Film/MonsterInLaw'' (2005)
43	* ''Film/GeorgiaRule'' (2007)
44	* ''Film/TheButler'' (2013)
45	* ''Film/BetterLivingThroughChemistry'' (2014)
46	* ''Film/ThisIsWhereILeaveYou'' (2014)
47	* ''Series/GraceAndFrankie'' (2015-2022)
48	* ''WesternAnimation/ElenaOfAvalor'' (2016)
49	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Luck\|2022}}'' (2022)
50	* ''Film/EightyForBrady'' (2023)
51	* ''WesternAnimation/RubyGillmanTeenageKraken'' (2023)
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