biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1937– )
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| biography:
| Film actress, born in New York City, New York, USA. She attended Vassar College, left to study art in Paris, returned to New York to dabble in modelling, and then began a stage career. In 1955 she co-starred with her father, Henry Fonda, in a production of The Country Girl. Her screen debut was in Tall Story (1960). She had a brief phase as a sex kitten under the direction of her French film-maker husband Roger Vadim, but after divorcing him she commenced an entirely new phase as a serious actress and committed radical. She married the political militant, Tom Hayden, took a lead in opposing the Vietnam War (earning the nickname Hanoi Jane because she travelled to the Communist capital and posed for pictures there), and became increasingly identified as a spokesperson on issues of civil rights and women's rights. At the same time she continued her screen career and won Oscars as best actress in Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978). One of her finest moments came when she produced and appeared in On Golden Pond (1982), which gave her father his Oscar-winning role. In the 1980s she embarked on a new venture, becoming immensely successful with a series of aerobic-exercise videos. She divorced her husband and married media-mogul Ted Turner, (separated 2000) and turned her attention to environmental issues. |
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