Nominated for the 2009 Tony Award for Best Performance for a Leading Actress in a Play for "33 Variations".
Of the Oscar-winning father-daughter couples, she and her father are one of two couples (the other is Hayley Mills/John Mills) where the daughter won an Academy award before the father did. Hayley Mills' Oscar was an honorary award for Pollyanna (1960), "...[T]he most outstanding juvenile performance during 1960". Juveniles were not allowed to compete for Oscars until the late 1960s, when the juvenile award was abandoned.
Older sister of Peter Fonda. Younger half-sister of Frances de Villers Brokaw.
Passed on the title role in Norma Rae (1979), which won a Best Actress Oscar for its eventual star Sally Field.
Premiere Magazine ranked her as #32 on a list of the Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation feature (2005).
Producer Robert Evans wanted Fonda play female lead in Chinatown (1974).
Protested alongside fellow actresses Sally Field & Christine Lahti, and playwright Eve Ensler urging the Mexican government to re-investigate the slayings of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juarez, on the Mexico-Texas border. (February 2004)
Ranked #83 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list (October 1997).
Ranked #9 in Men's Health 100 Hottest Women of All Time (2011).
Recovering from left knee replacement surgery [June 17, 2009].
She and The China Syndrome (1979) co-stars Jack Lemmon and Michael Douglas have all won Oscars for Leading Roles. Fonda won for Klute (1971), Lemmon won for Save the Tiger (1973), and Douglas won for Wall Street (1987).
She and Tom Hayden gave their son Troy Garity his paternal grandmother's last name for the sake of anonymity
She and her father Henry Fonda are the only father-daughter couple to receive Oscars for leading roles.
She and her father were the first father-daughter couple to be Oscar-nominated the same year (1982).
She was a close friend of Gregory Peck, and he frequently attended political rallies with her.
She was voted the 51st Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
She was, and still is, an exercise maven.
Shortly after her divorce from Ted Turner, she announced she had become a born-again Christian. Speculations are that this may have played a part in their seperation, since Ted Turner has expressed highly critical opinions on religion in general.
Stepdaughter of Shirlee Fonda