1937-
Actress

Ingenue.

Throughout the 1960s Jane Fonda was known primarily as actor Henry Fonda's daughter, as a pretty ingenue in light sex comedies such as Sunday in New York (1963) and as director Roger Vadim's protege in arty skin flicks such as Barbarella (1968). All that was to change in the decade that followed. As worldwide political situations intensfied, particularly the war in Vietnam, Fonda became increasingly radicalized. A major influence on her in the late 1960s was her friend Vanessa Redgrave, who had often taken strong anti-American political stances. Fonda began to see herself and her role in Hollywood differently. She split with Vadim, then stunned audiences and critics with her portrayal of a bitter, downtrodden marathon dancer in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? After traveling to Europe and India to "search for herself," Fonda returned to the United States with a radically different agenda, declaring...