Jane Fonda

Jane Seymour Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an Academy Award-winning American actress, model, writer, fitness guru, producer, and political activist.

Later career

In the early 1980s she reinvented herself as a health guru, setting up the Jane Fonda Workout studio in Beverly Hills and creating best-selling books and tapes (her "Jane Fonda's Workout" is one of the best-selling videos of all time). Leading the aerobics craze, she was particularly noted in this regard for popularising the phrase "go for the burn", for which she was criticised. While retired from acting in the late 1980s (she announced that she would never act again in April 1991), her latest endeavors have been philanthropic. She works to prevent adolescent pregnancy, and in July of 2001 this item ran in the L.A. Times:

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1980 - Aerobics

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"Atlanta's Emory University unveiled the Jane Fonda Center Thursday, using a $2-million donation from the actress and former fitness guru to study adolescent reproductive health research, training and program development. Fonda's gift will include an endowment to create a research position specializing in teen sexuality and reproductive health. Earlier this year, Fonda gave $12.5 million to Harvard's Graduate School of Education for a study of gender in education."

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In early 2004, she announced she'd return to acting after a fourteen-year absence. Her recent movie, Monster-in-Law, released in May 2005, was a comedy in which she plays Jennifer Lopez's prospective mother-in-law. Fonda received rave reviews for her performance, and the film debuted at #1 in the American box office, making over $23 million in its opening weekend. That same month there were reports she was in talks to film a sequel to 9 to 5.

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2004 - Monster-in-Law - May 2005 - Jennifer Lopez - American

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