Editing Jane Fonda (section)

==Career==
===1959–1969: Early roles and breakthrough ===
[[File:Jane Fonda 1963.jpg|thumb|180px|Fonda as Eileen Tyler in ''[[Sunday in New York]]'', one of her earliest box office successes]]

Fonda's stage work in the late 1950s laid the foundation for her film career in the 1960s. She averaged almost two movies a year throughout the decade, starting in 1960 with ''[[Tall Story]]'', in which she recreated one of her [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] roles as a college cheerleader pursuing a basketball star, played by [[Anthony Perkins]]. ''[[Period of Adjustment (film)|Period of Adjustment]]'' and ''[[Walk on the Wild Side (film)|Walk on the Wild Side]]'' followed in 1962. In ''Walk on the Wild Side'', Fonda played a prostitute and earned a [[Golden Globe]] for [[Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress|Most Promising Newcomer]]. In 1963, she starred in ''[[Sunday in New York]]''. ''[[Newsday]]'' called her "the loveliest and most gifted of all our new young actresses".<ref>{{cite web|last=Galtney|first=Smith|url=https://www.broadway.com/buzz/5985/33-preludes-to-33-variations-the-early-broadway-years-of-jane-fonda/|title=33 Preludes to 33 Variations: The Early Broadway Years of Jane Fonda|website=Broadway Buzz|publisher=Broadway.com|date=February 26, 2009|access-date=July 24, 2021|archive-date=July 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724202424/https://www.broadway.com/buzz/5985/33-preludes-to-33-variations-the-early-broadway-years-of-jane-fonda/|url-status=live}}</ref> However, she also had detractors – in the same year, the ''[[Harvard Lampoon]]'' named her the "Year's Worst Actress" for ''[[The Chapman Report]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19630406&id=kEc0AAAAIBAJ&pg=3613,1057920 |title=Harvard Lampoon Lampoons Films |date=April 6, 1963 |work=[[Sarasota Herald-Tribune]] |access-date=February 24, 2014 |archive-date=February 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224175847/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19630406&id=kEc0AAAAIBAJ&pg=3613,1057920 |url-status=live }}</ref> Her next two pictures, ''[[Joy House (film)|Joy House]]'' and ''[[Circle of Love (film)|Circle of Love]]'' (both 1964), were made in France; with the latter, Fonda became one of the first American film stars to appear nude in a foreign movie.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jane Fonda: Biography|url=https://movies.msn.com/celebrities/celebrity-biography/jane-fonda/|publisher=MSN Movies|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818174943/https://movies.msn.com/celebrities/celebrity-biography/jane-fonda/|archive-date=August 18, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> She was offered the coveted role of Lara in ''[[Doctor Zhivago (film)|Doctor Zhivago]]'', but turned it down because she didn't want to go on location for nine months.{{sfn|Bosworth|2011|p=221}}

Fonda's career breakthrough came with ''[[Cat Ballou]]'' (1965), in which she played a schoolmarm-turned-outlaw. This comedy [[Western (genre)|Western]] received five [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] nominations, with [[Lee Marvin]] winning best actor, and was one of the year's top ten films at the box office. It was considered by many to have been the film that brought Fonda to [[bankable]] stardom. The following year, she had a starring role in ''[[The Chase (1966 film)|The Chase]]'' opposite [[Robert Redford]], in their first film together, with two-time Oscar winner [[Marlon Brando]]. The film received some positive reviews, but Fonda's performance was noticed by ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' magazine: "Jane Fonda, as Redford's wife and the mistress of wealthy oilman James Fox, makes the most of the biggest female role."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/1965/film/reviews/the-chase-2-1200421014/ |title=Film Review: The Chase |date=January 1966 |access-date=January 5, 2019 |archive-date=December 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215173006/https://variety.com/1965/film/reviews/the-chase-2-1200421014/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She returned to France to make ''[[The Game Is Over]]'' (1966), often described as her sexiest film, and appeared in the August 1966 issue of ''[[Playboy]]'', in paparazzi shots taken on the set.<ref>Thomas, Bob (January 17, 1967). "Jane Fonda Mystified By Obscenity Charges". ''Alabama Journal''.</ref> Fonda immediately sued the magazine for publishing them without her consent.{{sfn|Davidson|1990|p=93}}<ref name=WP66>{{cite news|newspaper=[[Washington Post]]|date=August 28, 1966|title=Sues|page=A26}}</ref> After this came the comedies ''[[Any Wednesday (film)|Any Wednesday]]'' (1966), opposite [[Jason Robards]] and [[Dean Jones (actor)|Dean Jones]], and ''[[Barefoot in the Park (film)|Barefoot in the Park]]'' (1967), again co-starring Redford.

[[File:Jane Fonda beach.jpg|thumb|upright=.75|left|This image of Fonda on an Italian beach became a classic pin-up poster.<ref>As noted, for instance, in ''People'', vol. 3, no. 24, p. [http://storage.people.com/jpgs/19750623/19750623-750-24.jpg 23].</ref>]]

In 1968, she played the title role in the [[science fiction]] spoof ''[[Barbarella (film)|Barbarella]]'', which established her status as a [[sex symbol]]. In contrast, the tragedy ''[[They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (film)|They Shoot Horses, Don't They?]]'' (1969) won her critical acclaim and marked a significant turning point in her career; ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' wrote, "Fonda, as the unremittingly cynical loser, the tough and bruised babe of the [[Dust Bowl]], gives a dramatic performance that gives the film a personal focus and an emotionally gripping power."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/1968/film/reviews/they-shoot-horses-don-t-they-1200421765/ |title=They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |date=1969 |access-date=January 5, 2019 |archive-date=August 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190804174336/https://variety.com/1968/film/reviews/they-shoot-horses-don-t-they-1200421765/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In addition, renowned film critic [[Pauline Kael]], in her ''[[The New Yorker|New Yorker]]'' review of the film, noted of Fonda: "[She] has been a charming, witty nudie cutie in recent years and now gets a chance at an archetypal character. Fonda goes all the way with it, as screen actresses rarely do once they become stars. She doesn't try to save some ladylike part of herself, the way even a good actress like [[Audrey Hepburn]] does, peeping at us from behind 'vulgar' roles to assure us she's not really like that. Fonda stands a good chance of personifying American tensions and dominating our movies in the seventies as [[Bette Davis]] did in the thirties."<ref name="newyorker.com">{{cite news |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/05/09/queen-jane-approximately |title=Queen Jane, Approximately |last=Als |first=Hilton |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |date=May 2, 2011 |access-date=July 16, 2019 |issn=0028-792X |archive-date=January 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190111015010/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/05/09/queen-jane-approximately |url-status=live }}</ref> For her performance, she won the [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress]] and earned her first [[Academy Awards]] nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]. Fonda was very selective by the end of the decade, turning down lead roles in ''[[Rosemary's Baby (film)|Rosemary's Baby]]'' and ''[[Bonnie and Clyde (film)|Bonnie and Clyde]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Chris|last=Nashawaty|title='Barbarella' and beyond|url=https://ew.com/article/2012/06/29/barbarella-and-beyond/|date=June 29, 2012|access-date=September 10, 2021|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|archive-date=September 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210910054136/https://ew.com/article/2012/06/29/barbarella-and-beyond/|url-status=live}}</ref>

===1970–1979: Widespread success and acclaim===
In the seventies, Fonda enjoyed her most critically acclaimed period as an actress despite some setbacks for her ongoing activism. According to writer and critic [[Hilton Als]], her performances starting with ''They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'' heralded a new kind of acting: for the first time, she was willing to alienate viewers, rather than try to win them over. Fonda's ability to continue to develop her talent is what sets her apart from many other performers of her generation.<ref name="newyorker.com"/>

Fonda won her first [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in 1971, playing a high-priced [[call girl]], the [[gamine]] Bree Daniels, in [[Alan J. Pakula]]'s neo-noir psychological thriller ''[[Klute]]''. Prior to shooting, Fonda spent time interviewing several prostitutes and madams. Years later, Fonda discovered that "there was like a marriage, a melding of souls between this character and me, this woman that I didn't think I could play because I didn't think I was call girl material. It didn't matter."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/jun/03/features |title=Jane Fonda |date=June 3, 2005 |access-date=January 5, 2019 |newspaper=The Guardian |archive-date=June 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622092109/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/jun/03/features |url-status=live }}</ref> Upon its release, ''Klute'' was both a critical and commercial success, and Fonda's performance earned her widespread recognition. Pauline Kael wrote:
<blockquote>As an actress, [Fonda] has a special kind of smartness that takes the form of speed; she's always a little ahead of everybody, and this quicker beat – this quicker responsiveness – makes her more exciting to watch. This quality works to great advantage in her full-scale, definitive portrait of a call girl in ''Klute''. It's a good, big role for her, and she disappears into Bree, the call girl, so totally that her performance is very pure – unadorned by "acting". She never stands outside Bree, she gives herself over to the role, and yet she isn't lost in it—she's fully in control, and her means are extraordinarily economical. She has somehow got to a plane of acting at which even the closest closeup never reveals a false thought and, seen on the movie streets a block away, she's Bree, not Jane Fonda, walking toward us. There isn't another young dramatic actress in American films who can touch her.<ref>{{cite news |first=Pauline |last=Kael |title=A restless yawing between extremes |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=February 3, 1974 }}</ref></blockquote>
[[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' also praised Fonda's performance, even suggesting that the film should have been titled ''Bree'' after her character: "What is it about Jane Fonda that makes her such a fascinating actress to watch? She has a sort of nervous intensity that keeps her so firmly locked into a film character that the character actually seems distracted by things that come up in the movie."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/klute-1971 |title=Klute Movie Review & Film Summary (1971) – Roger Ebert |first=Roger |last=Ebert |website=Roger Ebert |access-date=January 5, 2019 |archive-date=April 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414104332/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/klute-1971 |url-status=live }}</ref> During the 1971–1972 awards season, Fonda dominated the Best Actress category at almost every major awards ceremony; in addition to her Oscar win, she received her first [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama]], her first [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress]] and her second New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress.

Between ''[[Klute]]'' in 1971 and ''[[Fun with Dick and Jane (1977 film)|Fun with Dick and Jane]]'' in 1977, Fonda did not have a major film success. She appeared in ''[[A Doll's House (1973 Losey film)|A Doll's House]]'' (1973), ''[[Steelyard Blues]]'' and ''[[The Blue Bird (1976 film)|The Blue Bird]]'' (1976). In the first, some critics felt Fonda was miscast, but her work as [[Nora Helmer]] drew praise, and a review in ''[[The New York Times]]'' opined, "Though the Losey film is ferociously flawed, I recommend it for Jane Fonda's performance. Beforehand, it seemed fair to wonder if she could personify someone from the past; her voice, inflections, and ways of moving have always seemed totally contemporary. But once again she proves herself to be one of our finest actresses, and she's at home in the 1870s, a creature of that period as much as of ours."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/08/archives/film-a-dolls-house-73-vintage-jane-fonda-at-home-with-ibsen.html |title=Film: 'A Doll's House,' '73Vintage Jane Fonda |date=March 8, 1978 |access-date=January 5, 2019 |newspaper=The New York Times |archive-date=December 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215173409/https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/08/archives/film-a-dolls-house-73-vintage-jane-fonda-at-home-with-ibsen.html |url-status=live }}</ref> From comments ascribed to her in interviews, some have inferred that she personally blamed the situation on anger at her outspoken political views: "I can't say I was blacklisted, but I was greylisted."<ref>[http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/janefonda/ Jane Fonda profile] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080802181256/http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/janefonda/ |date=August 2, 2008}}. ''Hello! Magazine''; retrieved April 2, 2006.</ref> However, in her 2005 autobiography, ''My Life So Far'', she rejected such simplification. "The suggestion is that because of my actions against the war my career had been destroyed ... But the truth is that my career, far from being destroyed after the war, flourished with a vigor it had not previously enjoyed."{{sfn|Fonda|2005|p=378}} She reduced acting because of her political activism providing a new focus in her life. Her return to acting in a series of 'issue-driven' films reflected this new focus.

{{quote box|align=right|width=25em|bgcolor = Cornsilk|quote=Jane Fonda did an extraordinary job with her part. She is a splendid actress with a strong analytical mind which sometimes gets in her way, and with an incredible technique and control of emotion; she can cry at will, on cue, mere drops or buckets, as the scene demands ... I thought Jane well deserved the Oscar she should have got.<ref name=Zinnemann>Zinnemann, Fred. ''A Life in the Movies. An Autobiography'', Macmillan Books, (1992) p. 226</ref>|source= —[[Fred Zinnemann]]<br />director of ''Julia'' (1977)}}

In 1972, Fonda starred as a reporter alongside [[Yves Montand]] in ''[[Tout Va Bien]]'', directed by [[Jean-Luc Godard]] and [[Jean-Pierre Gorin]]. The two directors then made ''[[Letter to Jane]]'', in which the two spent nearly an hour discussing a news photograph of Fonda. At the time, while in Rome, she joined a feminist march on March 8 and gave a brief speech of support for the Italian women's rights.<ref>{{cite web|date=March 8, 2021|title=Quell'8 marzo a Roma quando Jane Fonda...|url=https://www.artapartofculture.net/2021/03/08/quell8-marzo-a-roma-quando-jane-fonda/|access-date=October 10, 2021|website=art a part of cult(ure)|language=it|archive-date=April 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419052228/https://www.artapartofculture.net/2021/03/08/quell8-marzo-a-roma-quando-jane-fonda/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Through her production company, IPC Films, she produced films that helped return her to star status. The 1977 comedy film ''[[Fun with Dick and Jane (1977 film)|Fun with Dick and Jane]]'' is generally considered her "comeback" picture. Critical reaction was mixed, but Fonda's comic performance was praised; [[Vincent Canby]] of ''The New York Times'' remarked, "I never have trouble remembering that Miss Fonda is a fine dramatic actress but I'm surprised all over again every time I see her do comedy with the mixture of comic intelligence and abandon she shows here."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/02/10/archives/dick-and-jane-in-screen-romp.html|title='Dick and Jane' in Screen Romp|first=Vincent|last=Canby|date=February 10, 1977|access-date=January 5, 2019|newspaper=The New York Times|archive-date=December 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181214065848/https://www.nytimes.com/1977/02/10/archives/dick-and-jane-in-screen-romp.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Also in 1977, she portrayed the playwright [[Lillian Hellman]] in ''[[Julia (1977 film)|Julia]]'', receiving positive reviews from critics. Gary Arnold of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' described her performance as "edgy, persuasive and intriguingly tensed-up," commenting further, "Irritable, intent and agonizingly self-conscious, Fonda suggests the internal conflicts gnawing at a talented woman who craves the self-assurance, resolve and wisdom she sees in figures like Julia and Hammett."<ref>{{cite news |first=Gary |last=Arnold |title=A Graceful, Faithful, Ephemeral 'Julia' |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=October 12, 1977 }}</ref> For her performance, Fonda won her first [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role]], her second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, and received her third nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.<ref name="actors" />

During this period, Fonda announced that she would make only films that focused on important issues, and she generally stuck to her word. She turned down ''[[An Unmarried Woman]]'' because she felt the part was not relevant. In 1978, Fonda was at a career peak after she won her second Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Sally Hyde, a conflicted adulteress in ''[[Coming Home (1978 film)|Coming Home]]'', the story of a disabled Vietnam War veteran's difficulty in re-entering civilian life.<ref name="actors">Stated in interview on ''[[Inside the Actors Studio]]''.</ref> Upon its release, the film emerged as a major commercial success with audiences and received positive reviews from critics; Ebert noted that her Sally Hyde was "the kind of character you somehow wouldn't expect the outspoken, intelligent Fonda to play," and [[Jonathan Rosenbaum]] of the ''[[San Diego Reader]]'' felt that Fonda was "a marvel to watch; what fascinates and involves me in her performance are the conscientious effort and thought that seem to go into every line reading and gesture, as if the question of what a captain's wife and former cheerleader was like became a source of endless curiosity and discovery for her."<ref>{{cite news |first= Jonathan |last=Rosenbaum |title=War Bonds on Coming Home, 1978 Review |work=[[San Diego Reader]] |date=June 15, 1978 }}</ref> Her performance also earned her a third [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama]] as well, making this her second consecutive win. Also in 1978, she reunited with Alan J. Pakula to star in his post-modern Western drama ''[[Comes a Horseman]]'' as a hard-bitten rancher, and later took on a supporting role in ''[[California Suite]]'', where she played a [[Manhattan]] workaholic and divorcee. ''Variety'' noted that she "demonstrates yet another aspect of her amazing range"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1977/film/reviews/california-suite-1200424294/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130205092535/http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117789654/?categoryid=31&cs=1&p=0|archive-date=February 5, 2013|title=California Suite|work=Variety|date = January 1978|access-date=March 2, 2022|url-status=live}}</ref> and ''[[Time Out New York]]'' remarked that she gave "another performance of unnerving sureness".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timeout.com/london/film/california-suite|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130204152941/http://www.timeout.com/london/film/california-suite|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 4, 2013|title=California Suite|date=February 4, 2013|website=Time Out|access-date=July 16, 2019}}</ref>

She won her second BAFTA Award for Best Actress in 1979 with ''[[The China Syndrome]]'', about a cover-up of a vulnerability in a [[nuclear power plant]]. Cast alongside [[Jack Lemmon]] and [[Michael Douglas]], in one of his early roles, Fonda played a clever, ambitious television news reporter. [[Vincent Canby]], writing for ''The New York Times'', singled out Fonda's performance for praise: "The three stars are splendid, but maybe Miss Fonda is just a bit more than that. Her performance is not that of an actress in a star's role, but that of an actress creating a character that happens to be major within the film. She keeps getting better and better."<ref>{{cite news |first=Vincent |last=Canby |title=Nuclear Plant Is Villain in 'China Syndrome': A Question of Ethics |work=The New York Times |date=March 16, 1979 }}</ref> This role also earned her Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress. The same year, she starred in the western adventure-romance film ''[[The Electric Horseman]]'' with her frequent co-star, [[Robert Redford]]. Although the film received mixed reviews, ''The Electric Horseman'' was a box office success, becoming the eleventh [[1979 in film#Highest-grossing films|highest-grossing film of 1979]]<ref>[http://www.listal.com/list/top-grossing-films-1979 Top Grossing Films of 1979.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612145001/http://www.listal.com/list/top-grossing-films-1979 |date=June 12, 2018 }} Listal. Retrieved August 14, 2017.</ref> after grossing a domestic total of nearly $62&nbsp;million.<ref name="box office mojo">{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl1733395969/|title=The Electric Horseman (1979)|work=[[Box Office Mojo]]|publisher=[[IMDb]]|access-date=March 2, 2022|archive-date=March 3, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303032312/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl1733395969/|url-status=live}}</ref> By the late 1970s, ''[[Motion Picture Herald]]'' ranked Fonda as Hollywood's most bankable actress.<ref>John Willis (ed.). Screen World 1980. Vol. 31. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc. pp. 6–7.</ref>

===1980–1991: Established star and hiatus===
In 1980, Fonda starred in ''[[9 to 5 (film)|9 to 5]]'' with [[Lily Tomlin]] and [[Dolly Parton]]. The film was a huge critical and box office success, becoming the second highest-grossing release of the year.<ref>[https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/1980/ 1980 Yearly Box Office Results] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112041307/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/1980/ |date=November 12, 2020 }}. ''Box Offie Mojo''</ref> Fonda had long wanted to work with her father, hoping it would help their strained relationship.<ref name="actors" /> She achieved this goal when she purchased the screen rights to the play ''[[On Golden Pond (play)|On Golden Pond]]'', specifically for her father and her.<ref>[https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/movies/barbarella-comes-of-age-20050514-ge05ie.html "Barbarella comes of age"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303032313/https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/movies/barbarella-comes-of-age-20050514-ge05ie.html |date=March 3, 2022 }}, ''[[The Age]]'', May 14, 2005; retrieved March 2, 2022. "If Barbarella was an act of rebellion, On Golden Pond (1981) was a more mature rapprochement: Fonda bought the rights to Ernest Thompson's play to offer the role to her father."</ref> The father-daughter rift depicted on screen closely paralleled the real-life relationship between the two Fondas; they eventually became the first father-daughter duo to earn Oscar nominations (Jane earned her first [[Best Supporting Actress Oscar]] nomination) for their roles in the same film. ''[[On Golden Pond (1981 film)|On Golden Pond]]'', which also starred four-time Oscar winner [[Katharine Hepburn]], brought Henry Fonda his only [[Academy Award for Best Actor]], which Jane accepted on his behalf, as he was ill and could not leave home. He died five months later.<ref name="actors"/> Both films grossed over $100 million domestically.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl876643841/weekend/|title=9 to 5|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=January 27, 2022|archive-date=January 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120120707/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl876643841/weekend/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl2320795137/weekend/|title=On Golden Pond|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=January 27, 2022|archive-date=January 27, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127051812/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl2320795137/weekend/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Fonda continued to appear in feature films throughout the 1980s, winning an [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie|Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress]] for her portrayal of a [[Kentucky]] mountain woman in ''[[The Dollmaker]]'' (1984), and starring in the role of Dr. Martha Livingston in ''[[Agnes of God (film)|Agnes of God]]'' (1985). The following year, she played an [[alcoholic]] actress and murder suspect in the 1986 thriller ''[[The Morning After (1986 film)|The Morning After]]'', opposite [[Jeff Bridges]]. In preparation for her role, Fonda modeled the character on the starlet [[Gail Russell]], who, at 36, was found dead in her apartment, among empty liquor bottles. Writing for ''[[The New Yorker]]'', Pauline Kael commended Fonda for giving "a raucous-voiced, down-in-the-dirty performance that has some of the charge of her Bree in ''Klute'', back in 1971".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.ws/paulinekaelreviews/m7.html|title=Pauline Kael|website=www.geocities.ws|access-date=January 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114142817/http://www.geocities.ws/paulinekaelreviews/m7.html|archive-date=January 14, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> For her performance, she was nominated for yet another [[Academy Award for Best Actress]]. She ended the decade by appearing in ''[[Old Gringo]]''.

[[File:Jane Fonda 1990.jpg|thumb|right|upright=.75|Fonda and publisher [[Alan Light (comics)|Alan Light]] following the [[62nd Academy Awards]] in 1990]]

For many years Fonda took [[ballet]] class to keep fit, but after fracturing her foot while filming ''The China Syndrome'', she was no longer able to participate. To compensate, she began participating in [[aerobics]] and strengthening exercises under the direction of Leni Cazden. The ''Leni Workout'' became the ''Jane Fonda Workout'', which began a second career for her, continuing for many years.<ref name="actors"/> This was considered one of the influences that started the fitness craze among [[baby boomers]], then approaching middle age. In 1982, Fonda released her first exercise video, titled ''[[Jane Fonda's Workout]]'', inspired by her best-selling book, ''Jane Fonda's Workout Book''. ''Jane Fonda's Workout'' became the highest selling home video of the next few years, selling over a million copies. The video's release led many people to buy the then-new [[VCR]] in order to watch and perform the workout at home.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZAVnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA526 |page=526 |last=Hendricks |first=Nancy |date=2018 |title=Popular Fads and Crazes Through American History |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9781440851834 |access-date=May 10, 2022 |archive-date=April 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415184659/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZAVnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA526 |url-status=live }}</ref> The exercise videos were directed by Sidney Galanty, who produced the first video and 11 more after that. She would subsequently release 23 workout videos with the series selling a total of 17&nbsp;million copies combined, more than any other exercise series.<ref name="actors"/> She released five workout books and thirteen audio programs, through 1995. After a fifteen-year hiatus, she released two new fitness videos on DVD in 2010, aiming at an older audience.<ref name=Goldwert2010>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/jane-fonda-back-leotard-72-iconic-actress-fitness-guru-debut-new-fitness-dvds-article-1.438610|title=Jane Fonda is back in her leotard, at 72; iconic actress and fitness guru to debut new fitness DVDs|last=Goldwert|first=Lindsay|date=September 14, 2010|work=[[New York Daily News]]|access-date=July 23, 2013|archive-date=March 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328170546/https://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/jane-fonda-back-leotard-72-iconic-actress-fitness-guru-debut-new-fitness-dvds-article-1.438610|url-status=live}}</ref>

On May 3, 1983, she entered into a non-exclusive agreement with movie production distributor [[Columbia Pictures]], whereas she would star in or produce projects under her own banner Jayne Development Corporation, and she would develop offices at The Burbank Studios, and the company immediately started after her previous office she co-founded with Bruce Gilbert, IPC Films shuttered down.<ref>{{Cite news|date=May 4, 1983|title=Columbia Pacts for '1st-Look' on Fonda Jayne Corp. Films|page=5|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> On June 25, 1985, she renamed her production company, Fonda Films, because the original name felt that it would sound like a real estate company.<ref>{{Cite news|date=June 26, 1985|title=Fonda Renames Co., Appoints Bongflio to Exec V.P. Post|page=7|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> In 1990, she starred in the romantic drama ''[[Stanley & Iris]]'' (1990) with [[Robert De Niro]], which was her last film for 15 years. The film did not fare well at the box office. Despite receiving mixed to negative reviews, Fonda's performance as the widowed Iris was praised by [[Vincent Canby]], who stated, "Fonda's increasingly rich resources as an actress are evident in abundance here. They even overcome one's awareness that just beneath Iris's frumpy clothes, there is a firm, perfectly molded body that has become a multi-million-dollar industry."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/09/movies/review-film-middle-aged-and-not-quite-middle-class.html|title=Review/Film; Middle-Aged and Not Quite Middle Class|first=Vincent|last=Canby|date=February 9, 1990|access-date=January 5, 2019|newspaper=The New York Times|archive-date=August 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210806201936/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/09/movies/review-film-middle-aged-and-not-quite-middle-class.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
In 1991, after three decades in film, Fonda announced her retirement from the film industry.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/f/jane_fonda/index.html|title=Jane Fonda profile|work=The New York Times|access-date=July 19, 2011|first=Deborah|last=Solomon|archive-date=August 6, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130806172846/http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/f/jane_fonda/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

===2005–2014: Return to acting and Broadway ===
[[File:Jane Fonda Cannes.jpg|thumb|upright=.75|left|Fonda at the premiere of ''Promise Me This'' at the [[Cannes Film Festival]] in 2007]]

In 2005, she returned to the screen with the box office success ''[[Monster-in-Law]]'', starring opposite [[Jennifer Lopez]].<ref name="actors"/> Two years later, Fonda starred in the [[Garry Marshall]]-directed drama ''[[Georgia Rule]]'' alongside [[Felicity Huffman]] and [[Lindsay Lohan]]. ''Georgia Rule'' was panned by critics, but [[A. O. Scott]] of ''The New York Times'' felt the film belonged to Fonda and co-star Lohan, before writing, "Ms. Fonda's straight back and piercing eyes, the righteous jaw line she inherited from her father and a reputation for humorlessness all serve her well here, but it is her warmth and comic timing that make Georgia more than a provincial scold."<ref>[[A. O. Scott|Scott, A. O.]] (May 11, 2007). [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/movies/11geor.html Hey, California Girl, Don't Mess With Grandma] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181214171437/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/movies/11geor.html |date=December 14, 2018 }}. ''Georgia Rule'' Review. ''NYTimes''. Retrieved May 11, 2007.</ref> In 2009, Fonda returned to [[Broadway theater|Broadway]] for the first time since 1963, playing Katherine Brandt in [[Moisés Kaufman]]'s ''[[33 Variations]]''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20081207072741/http://www.usatoday.com/life/theater/news/2008-11-03-jane-fonda_N.htm "Jane Fonda returns to Broadway in '33 Variations{{'"}}]. ''[[USA Today]]''. Associated Press. November 3, 2008; retrieved July 19, 2011.</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=March 3, 2009 |last1=Frey |first1=Hillary |url=http://www.observer.com/2009/broadway-bows-down-power-dames-fonda-sarandon-lansbury |title=Broadway Bows Down to Power Dames Fonda, Sarandon, Lansbury |newspaper=[[The New York Observer]] |access-date=March 6, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090310123412/http://www.observer.com/2009/broadway-bows-down-power-dames-fonda-sarandon-lansbury |archive-date=March 10, 2009}}</ref> In a mixed review, Ben Brantley of ''The New York Times'' praised Fonda's "layered crispness" and her "aura of beleaguered briskness that flirts poignantly with the ghost of her spiky, confrontational screen presence as a young woman. For those who grew up enthralled with Ms. Fonda's screen image, it's hard not to respond to her performance here, on some level, as a personal memento mori."<ref>[[Ben Brantley|Brantley, Ben]] (March 9, 2009). [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/theater/reviews/10thir.html Beethoven and Fonda: Broadway Soulmates] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211223235213/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/theater/reviews/10thir.html |date=December 23, 2021 }}. ''New York Times''. Retrieved March 9, 2009.</ref> The role earned her a Tony nomination for [[Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play|Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play]].<ref>[http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/history/pastwinners/index.html "Search Past Winners"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130818181336/http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/history/pastwinners/index.html |date=August 18, 2013}}. Tony Awards. Retrieved July 19, 2011.</ref>

Fonda played a leading role in the 2011 drama ''[[All Together (2011 film)|All Together]]'', which was her first film in French since ''[[Tout Va Bien]]'' in 1972.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 24, 2010 |title=Jane Fonda in a French twist |url=https://www.express.co.uk/dayandnight/176781/Jane-Fonda-in-a-French-twist |access-date=December 16, 2022 |website=[[Daily Express]] |archive-date=December 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221216162744/https://www.express.co.uk/dayandnight/176781/Jane-Fonda-in-a-French-twist |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Et si on vivait tous ensemble|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/463028/Et-si-on-vivait-tous-ensemble/details|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104154622/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/463028/Et-si-on-vivait-tous-ensemble/details|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 4, 2012|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=2012|access-date=February 18, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Young|first=Neil|title=And If We All Lived Together?' ('Et si on vivait tous ensemble?')|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=April 3, 2012|date=August 3, 2011|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/we-all-lived-together-si-222847|archive-date=May 1, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501091537/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/we-all-lived-together-si-222847|url-status=live}}</ref> The same year she starred alongside [[Catherine Keener]] in ''[[Peace, Love and Misunderstanding]]'', playing a hippie grandmother.<ref>Kit, Borys (May 4, 2010), [https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64408220100505 "Fonda, Keener in 'Peace' accord"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308191753/https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64408220100505 |date=March 8, 2021 }}. Reuters. Retrieved July 19, 2011.</ref> In 2012, Fonda began a recurring role as Leona Lansing, CEO of a major media company, in HBO's original political drama ''[[The Newsroom (U.S. TV series)|The Newsroom]]''. Her role continued throughout the show's three seasons, and Fonda received two Emmy nominations for [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series|Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series]].

In 2013, Fonda had a small role in the [[Lee Daniels]] directed racial drama ''[[The Butler]]'' inspired by the life and career of [[White House]] butler [[Eugene Allen]]. Fonda portrayed First Lady [[Nancy Reagan]] opposite [[Alan Rickman]] as United States President [[Ronald Reagan]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://playbill.com/article/colman-domingo-alan-rickman-jane-fonda-oprah-winfrey-among-cast-of-the-butler-film-com-195327|title= Colman Domingo, Alan Rickman, Jane Fonda, Oprah Winfrey Among Cast of "The Butler" Film|website= Playbill|accessdate= July 10, 2024}}</ref> Fonda stated that despite her political differences with Nancy she had no difficulty playing the role saying, "I am an actor, and I have no intention of allowing the political differences between us to color my portrayal of her. I will not be disrespectful."<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a376249/jane-fonda-confirms-forest-whitaker-and-oprah-winfrey-for-the-butler/|title= Jane Fonda confirms Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey for 'The Butler'|website= DigitalSpy|date= April 13, 2012|accessdate= July 10, 2024}}</ref> Todd McCarthy of ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' wrote in his review, "the best cameo...comes from Jane Fonda, who is very good indeed as a gracious Nancy Reagan."<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/lee-daniels-butler-film-review-601991/|title= Lee Daniels' The Butler: Film Review|website= [[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date= August 9, 2013|accessdate= July 10, 2024}}</ref> Katey Rich of ''[[The Guardian]]'' agreed writing, "Fonda eerily transforms herself into Nancy Reagan".<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/aug/09/the-butler-review-forest-whitaker|title= The Butler – first look review|website= The Guardian|date= August 9, 2013|accessdate= July 10, 2024|last1= Rich|first1= Katey}}</ref> She had more film work the following year, appearing in the comedies ''[[Better Living Through Chemistry (film)|Better Living Through Chemistry]]'' and ''[[This is Where I Leave You]]''. She voiced Maxine Lombard in the season 26 episode "Opposites A-Frack". a character on ''[[The Simpsons]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Jane Fonda plays Mr. Burns' secret lover on 'The Simpsons'|url=http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/10/31/mr-burns-jane-fonda-the-simpsons/|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|last=Snierson|first=Dan|date=October 31, 2014|access-date=December 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216040526/http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/10/31/mr-burns-jane-fonda-the-simpsons/|archive-date=December 16, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> She played an acting diva in [[Paolo Sorrentino]]'s ''[[Youth (2015 film)|Youth]]'' in 2015, for which she earned a [[Golden Globe Award]] nomination. She also appeared in ''[[Fathers and Daughters]]'' (2015) with [[Russell Crowe]].

=== 2015–present: ''Grace and Frankie'' and other roles ===
Fonda appeared as the co-lead in the [[Netflix]] series ''[[Grace and Frankie]]''. She and [[Lily Tomlin]] played aging women whose husbands reveal they are in love with one another. Filming on the first season was completed in November 2014,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2014/03/19/jane-fonda-and-lily-tomlin-back-together-again-in-grace-and-frankie-a-new-original-comedy-series-on-netflix-580503/20140319netflix01/|title=Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin Back Together Again in "Grace and Frankie", A New Original Comedy Series on Netflix|website=[[The Futon Critic]]|date=March 19, 2014|access-date=August 30, 2014}}</ref> and the show premiered online on May 8, 2015. The series concluded in 2022 after running for 7 seasons.<ref>{{cite magazine | title=Grace and Frankie's Golden Years End on an Emotional Note | magazine=Vanity Fair | date=May 2, 2022 | url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/05/grace-and-frankies-golden-years-end-on-an-emotional-note | access-date=September 3, 2022 | archive-date=July 8, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220708055459/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/05/grace-and-frankies-golden-years-end-on-an-emotional-note | url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Cannes 2015 32.jpg|thumb|right|upright=.75|[[Michael Caine]], [[Rachel Weisz]], Fonda, and [[Harvey Keitel]] at the ''[[Youth (2015 film)|Youth]]'' premiere at the 2015 [[Cannes Film Festival]]]]

In 2016, Fonda voiced Shuriki in ''[[Elena and the Secret of Avalor]]''. In June 2016, the [[Human Rights Campaign]] released a video in tribute to the victims of the [[Orlando nightclub shooting]]; in the video, Fonda and others told the stories of the people killed there.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hrc.org/blog/watch-49-celebrities-honor-49-victims-of-orlando-tragedy-in-new-ryan-murphy |title=49 Celebrities Honor 49 Victims of Orlando Tragedy &#124; Human Rights Campaign |publisher=Hrc.org |access-date=June 30, 2016 |archive-date=August 23, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160823154109/http://www.hrc.org/blog/watch-49-celebrities-honor-49-victims-of-orlando-tragedy-in-new-ryan-murphy |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Rothaus |first=Steve |date=June 12, 2016 |title=Pulse Orlando shooting scene a popular LGBT club where employees, patrons 'like family' |url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/gay-south-florida/article83301677.html |work=The Miami Herald |access-date=June 15, 2016 |archive-date=June 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160615082724/http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/gay-south-florida/article83301677.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Fonda starred in her fourth collaboration with [[Robert Redford]] in the 2017 romantic drama film ''[[Our Souls at Night]]''. The film and Fonda's performance received critical acclaim upon release. In 2018, she starred opposite [[Diane Keaton]], [[Mary Steenburgen]], and [[Candice Bergen]] in the romantic comedy film ''[[Book Club (film)|Book Club]]''. Although opened to mixed reviews, the film was a major box office success grossing $93.4&nbsp;million against a $10&nbsp;million budget, despite releasing the same day as ''[[Deadpool 2]]''. Fonda is the subject of an [[HBO]] original documentary entitled ''[[Jane Fonda in Five Acts]]'', directed by the documentarian [[American Masters|Susan Lacy]]. Receiving rave reviews, it covers Fonda's life from childhood through her acting career and political activism and then to the present day.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/jane-fonda-five-acts-1072076| title='Jane Fonda in Five Acts': Film Review {{!}} Sundance 2018| author=Sheri Linden| magazine=Hollywood Reporter| date=January 20, 2018| access-date=September 21, 2018| archive-date=March 3, 2021| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303143356/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/jane-fonda-five-acts-1072076| url-status=live}}</ref> It premiered on HBO on September 24, 2018.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.hbo.com/content/hboweb/en/documentaries/jane-fonda-in-five-acts/about.html| title=About Jane Fonda In Five Acts| publisher=www.hbo.com| access-date=September 20, 2018| archive-date=October 11, 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011151159/https://www.hbo.com/content/hboweb/en/documentaries/jane-fonda-in-five-acts/about.html| url-status=dead}}</ref>

Fonda filmed the seventh and final season of ''Grace and Frankie'' in 2021, finishing production in November. The first four episodes premiered August 14, 2021,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/grace-and-frankie-netflix-first-4-episodes-final-season-stream-1234997396/ |title=A 'Grace and Frankie' Surprise: Netflix Drops First 4 Episodes of Final Season Early – The Hollywood Reporter |publisher=The Hollywood Reporter |first=Jackie |last=Strause |date=August 13, 2021 |accessdate=November 24, 2021 |archive-date=April 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415184709/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/grace-and-frankie-netflix-first-4-episodes-final-season-stream-1234997396/amp/ |url-status=live }}</ref> with the final 12 released on Netflix on April 29, 2022. In November 2021, it was announced Fonda would be in the second installment of [[Amazon Prime Video]]'s ''[[Yearly Departed]]''. She appeared alongside the host [[Yvonne Orji]], and fellow eulogy givers [[Chelsea Peretti]], [[Megan Stalter]], [[Dulcé Sloan]], [[Aparna Nancherla]], and [[X Mayo]]. It premiered on December 23, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.henryherald.com/features/yearly-departed-jane-fonda-chelsea-peretti-more-bid-farewell-to-the-worst-of-2021/article_1524de98-f090-5645-a767-6f7dace0f37c.html |title='Yearly Departed': Jane Fonda, Chelsea Peretti & More Bid Farewell to the Worst of 2021 |access-date=November 14, 2021 |archive-date=November 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211114015851/https://www.henryherald.com/features/yearly-departed-jane-fonda-chelsea-peretti-more-bid-farewell-to-the-worst-of-2021/article_1524de98-f090-5645-a767-6f7dace0f37c.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Fonda joined the cast of the 2023 film ''[[80 for Brady]]'', which pairs her with veteran actresses [[Lily Tomlin]], [[Rita Moreno]], and [[Sally Field]]. It also stars former [[NFL]] quarterback, [[Tom Brady]]. She and Tomlin headline [[Paul Weitz (filmmaker)|Paul Weitz]]'s black comedy ''[[Moving On (2022 film)|Moving On]]'', co-starring [[Malcolm McDowell]] and [[Richard Roundtree]]. Her third project for 2023 is ''[[Book Club: The Next Chapter]]'', which she made in Italy.