Hollywood actor Jane Fonda received top honour, the Cecil b. DeMille Award, at the 2021 Golden Globes. Let’s look at her journey before the big day.

Fonda was the daughter of actor Henry Fonda. She dropped out
of the Vassar College after two years and went to live in New York City, where
she started her career as a model and in 1958 studied acting under Lee
Strasberg at the Actors Studio. She started her acting career with
appearances in the Broadway play ‘There Was a Little Girl’ (1960) and then featured
in her first movie ‘Tall Story’ (1960).

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In 1960s, she starred in numerous comic films,
including ‘Cat Ballou’ (1965) and ‘Barefoot in the Park’ (1967) and added
more-substantial roles to her filmography with socially conscious films as ‘They
Shoot Horses’, ‘Don’t They?’ (1969), ‘Klute’ (1971), ‘Coming Home’ (1978), and ‘The
China Syndrome’ (1979).

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She received Academy Awards for best actress for her
performances as a call girl in ‘Klute’ and as the wife of a Vietnam War soldier
in ‘Coming Home’.

Fonda then joined Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin in ‘Nine to
Five’ (1980), a comedy in which three women join forces to get even with their
cruel misogynistic boss. In 1981 she co-starred with her father and Katharine
Hepburn in the film ‘On Golden Pond’.

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After 1990, Fonda took a break from acting and did not
reappear onscreen until 2005, when she starred opposite Jennifer Lopez in the
romantic comedy ‘Monster-in-Law’.

She has gone on to do several memorable roles in her career
and has been pretty vocal about her political views off the screen. She has
been active in the women’s rights movement, and in 2005 co founded the Women’s
Media Centre. She is also an ardent climate change activist.