Who Is The Real Jane Fonda?
Jane Fonda was the daughter of the legendary actor Henry Fonda, and his wife Frances Brokaw. Her father became legendary by playing heroic characters in movies like “The Grapes of Wrath,” and “Twelve Angry Men.” However, it does not seem he was as heroic in real life as he was abusive to his family. Her mother committed suicide in a mental institution when Jane was 12. Jane Fonda attended Vassar College, and during that time struggled with bulimia. Not really sure of her direction in life, she ended up studying at Lee Strasberg’s Actors’ Studio. Today she has made over 80 film appearances and won Academy Awards for her work in “Klute” (1971) and “Coming Home” (1978) and has been nominated five other times. The Years As An Activist So much of her career was about finding herself. Once she was involved in acting, she excelled. Later she married movie director Roger Vadim because she was taken by his “European intellectualism,” which most people identify with liberalism. Fonda was the los
