Trivia of Jane Fonda

 Trivia of Jane Fonda (21 December 1937)

*Her parents were Canadian-born socialite Frances Ford Seymour and American actor Henry Fonda.She was named for the third wife of Henry VIII, Jane Seymour, to whom she is distantly related on her mother's side,. and because of whom, until she was in fourth grade, Fonda said she was called "Lady" (as in Lady Jane).

*The suicide of her socialite mother Frances Ford Seymour was kept from her as a teenager, and she was told that she'd died of heart failure. Household newspaper and magazine subscriptions were canceled, and the staff and student body of Fonda's high school were instructed not to discuss the incident. Fonda learned the truth months later while leafing through a movie magazine in study hall.

*In 1958, she met Lee Strasberg; the meeting changed the course of her life. Fonda said, "I went to the Actors Studio and Lee Strasberg told me I had talent. Real talent. It was the first time that anyone, except my father – who had to say so – told me I was good.

*Jane Fonda made her acting debut with the 1960 Broadway play There Was a Little Girl, for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, and made her screen debut later the same year with the romantic comedy Tall Story.

*Jane Fonda didn't get along with actor Laurence Harvey during filming Walk on The Wild Side (1962).Walk on the Wild Side was the movie that yielded Jane Fonda's immortal quip, "Acting with Laurence Harvey is like acting with yourself, except worse,".

*Turned down the role of Lara Antipova in Doctor Zhivago (1965) because it was to be filmed primarily in Spain for nine months. She didn't want to be away from fiancé Roger Vadim that long, but weeks later she changed her mind and informed her agent she wanted to do it. By then, Julie Christie had been signed to play Lara and the rest is history. Jane still says that of all the movies she's turned down in her career, Doctor Zhivago is the one she most regrets not doing.

*She played the title role in the science fiction spoof Barbarella (1968), which established her status as a sex symbol.Reportedly, Brigitte Bardot and Sophia Loren turned down that title role. Bardot didn't want to play sexual roles and Loren was pregnant.

*Jane's appearance in On Golden Pond (1981) with dad Henry Fonda and son Troy Garity marked the only time three generations of Fondas appeared in the same film.