![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: December 21, 1937 in New York City, NY Biography:Hollywood legend has it that "Bette Davis" was forced to talk to a blank wall rather than her co-star "Henry Fonda" during filming of her close-ups in "Jezebel"; the reason was that he had repaired to New York to attend the birth of his daughter Jane.
A child of privilege, the young "Jane Fonda" exhibited the imperious, headstrong attitude and ruthlessness that would distinguish both her film work and her private life. The teenage Fonda wasn't keen on acting until she worked with her father in a 1954 Omaha Community Theatre production of The Country Girl. Slightly interested in pursuing a stage career at that point, Fonda nonetheless studied art both at Vassar and in Europe, returning to the States to work as a fashion model. Studying acting in earnest at "Lee Strasberg"'s Actors' Studio, Fonda ultimately starred on Broadway in Tall Story, then made her film debut by re-creating this stage... Full Biography
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