Jane Fonda

Her first marriage was to Roger Vadim in 1965 which ended in divorce. The couple had one daughter.

She married Tom Hayden in 1973. They had a son and later divorced. Her third marriage to the cable television tycoon and CNN founder Ted Turner in 1991 also ended in divorce in 2001. She is currently dating record producer Richard Perry.

She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010 and has since recovered.

She was born as Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda to Henry Fonda and Frances Brokaw. Her father a very famous actor and was counted amongst the best actors of the 20th century. Her mother was a socialite.

Exposed to movies and acting from a young age, she used to enact the scenes she had seen in the movies with her brother.

Tragedy struck when Jane was 12—her mother, depressed over her marital problems committed suicide. Her father was a cold and distant man who never developed any emotional bonding with his children.

She attended Emma Willard School. She was very talented and ambitious even as a teenager and she taught dance at Fire Island Pines, New York, when she was 15.

She enrolled at Vassar College, and while there she went to Paris to study art for two years. She returned to U.S. in 1958 and studied acting under Lee Strasberg.

She was active on the stage during the 1950s which formed the foundation for her Hollywood career. She made her debut with the romantic comedy ‘Tall Story’ opposite Anthony Perkins in 1960 in which she played a cheerleader who pursues a basketball player.

She was very prolific during the early 1960s doing several movies in a year. She got her first Golden Globe Award nomination for the Best Actress for the movie ‘Period of Adjustment’ (1962) and another one for ‘Cat Ballou’ (1965).

In 1969, she portrayed Gloria Beatty in ‘They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?’—a drama film directed by Sydney Pollack. Her role was critically acclaimed and she won several awards and nominations.

She played the prostitute Bree Daniels in the dramatic film ‘Klute’ in 1971. In the movie her character helps a detective in solving a missing person case. The movie also starred Donald Sutherland and Charles Cioffi.

After a series of not-so-memorable films in the mid 1970s, she appeared in the drama film ‘Coming Home’ in 1978. The story revolved around a love triangle among a young woman, her husband and a paralyzed Vietnam War veteran. The movie was critically acclaimed and won several awards.

Her role as a high-profile call girl in the dramatic film ‘Klute’ was highly appreciated. She won several awards for her performance including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe award.

In the movie ‘Coming Home’, she portrayed a woman torn between her love for her marine husband and a paralyzed war veteran. Her moving performance as Sally Hyde was critically acclaimed.