Born in New York, NY; educated at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY, Art Students League and the Actors Studio, New York City and Harvard. Leading Hollywood star whose adherence to radical political causes stirred some controversy in the 1960s and 70s. The daughter of Henry Fonda and sister of Peter, she made her film debut in TALL STORY (1960) and, over the next two decades, appeared in several roles which have come to seem emblematic of their times: she played a psychedelic science-fiction heroine in BARBARELLA (1968), an independent-yet-vulnerable middle-class call girl in KLUTE (1971) and an American journalist involved in a French factory occupation in TOUT VA BIEN (1972). In the 80s, again in keeping with the spirit of the times, Fonda espoused the less radical cause of the body beautiful, producing and appearing in an extremely lucrative series of exercise videotapes. She also gave forceful performances in a string of quality commerical films such as 9 TO 5 (1980), ON GOLDEN POND (1981) and THE MORNING AFTER (1986). Fonda married French director Roger Vadim in 1965, and political activist Tom Hayden in 1973. Although her film appearances have grown increasingly rare (LEONARD PART 6, 1987; OLD GRINGO, 1989; STANLEY & IRIS, 1990), Fonda continues to maintain a high public profile as the ex-wife of media mogul Ted Turner, and has resumed her career as a producer for Turner Pictures, developing projects through her own Fonda Films production company. She returned to the screen in 2005 with MONSTER-IN-LAW and followed that with GEORGIA RULE (2007).  Nominated for Actress 1969: THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?  Actress 1971: KLUTE  Nominated for Actress 1977: JULIA  Actress 1978: COMING HOME  Nominated for Actress 1979: THE CHINA SYNDROME  Nominated for Supporting Actress 1981: ON GOLDEN POND  Nominated for Actress 1986: THE MORNING AFTER 7 nominations, 2 Awards