Jane Fonda
Born December 21, 1937 (Age: 88)
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New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Jane Seymour Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an American actress, activist, and former fashion model. She is the recipient of various accolades including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Golden Lion Honorary Award, the Honorary Palme d'Or, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Born to socialite Frances Ford Seymour and actor Henry Fonda, Fonda made her acting debut with the 1960 Broadway play There Was a Little Girl, for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, and made her screen debut later the same year with the romantic comedy Tall Story. She rose to prominence during the 1960s with the comedies Period of Adjustment (1962), Sunday in New York (1963), Cat Ballou (1965), Barefoot in the Park (1967), and Barbarella (1968). Her first husband was Barbarella director Roger Vadim. A seven-time Academy Award nominee, she received her first nomination for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Actress twice in the 1970s, for Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978). Her other nominations were for Julia (1977), The China Syndrome (1979), On Golden Pond (1981), and The Morning After (1986). Consecutive hits Fun with Dick and Jane (1977), California Suite (1978), The Electric Horseman (1979), and 9 to 5 (1980) sustained Fonda's box-office drawing power, and she won a Primetime Emmy Award for her performance in the TV film The Dollmaker (1984). In 1982, she released her first exercise video, Jane Fonda's Workout, which became the highest-selling VHS of the 20th century. It would be the first of 22 such videos over the next 13 years, which would collectively sell over 17 million copies. Divorced from her second husband Tom Hayden, she married billionaire media mogul Ted Turner in 1991 and retired from acting, following a row of commercially unsuccessful films concluded by Stanley & Iris (1990). Fonda divorced Turner in 2001 and returned to the screen with the hit Monster-in-Law (2005). Although Georgia Rule (2007) was her only other movie during the 2000s, in the early 2010s she fully re-launched her career. Subsequent films have included The Butler (2013), This Is Where I Leave You (2014), Youth (2015), Our Souls at Night (2017), and Book Club (2018). In 2009, she returned to Broadway after a 49-year absence from the stage, in the play 33 Variations which earned her a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, while her major recurring role in the HBO drama series The Newsroom (2012–14) earned her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She also released another five exercise videos between 2009 and 2012. Fonda currently stars as Grace Hanson in the Netflix comedy series Grace and Frankie, which debuted in 2015 and has earned her nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Jane Seymour Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an American actress, activist, and former fashion model. She is the recipient of various accolades including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Golden Lion Honorary Award, the Honorary Palme d'Or, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
Born to socialite Frances Ford Seymour and actor Henry Fonda, Fonda made her acting debut with the 1960 Broadway play There Was a Little Girl, for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, and made her screen debut later the same year with the romantic comedy Tall Story. She rose to prominence during the 1960s with the comedies Period of Adjustment (1962), Sunday in New York (1963), Cat Ballou (1965), Barefoot in the Park (1967), and Barbarella (1968). Her first husband was Barbarella director Roger Vadim. A seven-time Academy Award nominee, she received her first nomination for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Actress twice in the 1970s, for Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978). Her other nominations were for Julia (1977), The China Syndrome (1979), On Golden Pond (1981), and The Morning After (1986). Consecutive hits Fun with Dick and Jane (1977), California Suite (1978), The Electric Horseman (1979), and 9 to 5 (1980) sustained Fonda's box-office drawing power, and she won a Primetime Emmy Award for her performance in the TV film The Dollmaker (1984).
In 1982, she released her first exercise video, Jane Fonda's Workout, which became the highest-selling VHS of the 20th century. It would be the first of 22 such videos over the next 13 years, which would collectively sell over 17 million copies. Divorced from her second husband Tom Hayden, she married billionaire media mogul Ted Turner in 1991 and retired from acting, following a row of commercially unsuccessful films concluded by Stanley & Iris (1990). Fonda divorced Turner in 2001 and returned to the screen with the hit Monster-in-Law (2005). Although Georgia Rule (2007) was her only other movie during the 2000s, in the early 2010s she fully re-launched her career. Subsequent films have included The Butler (2013), This Is Where I Leave You (2014), Youth (2015), Our Souls at Night (2017), and Book Club (2018). In 2009, she returned to Broadway after a 49-year absence from the stage, in the play 33 Variations which earned her a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, while her major recurring role in the HBO drama series The Newsroom (2012–14) earned her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She also released another five exercise videos between 2009 and 2012. Fonda currently stars as Grace Hanson in the Netflix comedy series Grace and Frankie, which debuted in 2015 and has earned her nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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Filmography
No Image
Gaslit
2026
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as Self
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Age: 88
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
2023
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as Grandmamah (voice)
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Age: 85
Book Club: The Next Chapter
2023
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as Vivian
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Age: 85
Moving On
2023
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as Claire
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Age: 85
80 for Brady
2023
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as Trish
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Age: 85
A Journey to Sundance
2023
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as Self
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Age: 85
We Are Cinema
2021
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 83
Stoner Cats
2021
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as Ms. Stoner
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Age: 83
Jane Fonda and Illeana Douglas on KLUTE
2019
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as Self
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Age: 81
Book Club
2018
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as Vivian
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Age: 80
David Hurn: A Life in Pictures
2017
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as Self
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Age: 79
Fathers and Daughters
2015
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as Theodora
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Age: 77
Youth
2015
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as Brenda Morel
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Age: 77
Becoming California
2014
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as Self - Narrator
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Age: 76
This Is Where I Leave You
2014
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as Hillary Altman
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Age: 76
Better Living Through Chemistry
2014
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as Pharmacy Customer
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Age: 76
The Butler
2013
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as Nancy Reagan
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Age: 75
La Classe américaine
2012
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as Self
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Age: 74
All Together
2012
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as Jeanne
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Age: 74
Peace, Love & Misunderstanding
2011
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as Grace
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Age: 73
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007
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as Self
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Age: 69
Georgia Rule
2007
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as Georgia Randall
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Age: 69
Private Screenings: Jane Fonda
2007
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as Self
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Age: 69
Beautiful Daughters
2006
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as Self
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Age: 68
Danger: Diabolik - From Fumetti to Film
2005
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as Self
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Age: 67
Monster-in-Law
2005
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as Viola Fields
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Age: 67
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
2004
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as Self
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Age: 66
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
2004
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as Self
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Age: 66
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
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as Self
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Age: 64
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
1997
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as Self
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Age: 59
A Century of Cinema
1994
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as Self
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Age: 56
Fonda on Fonda
1992
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as Self - Host
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Age: 54
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
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as Self
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Age: 52
The Earth Day Special
1990
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as Hellen
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Age: 52
Stanley & Iris
1990
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as Iris King
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Age: 52
Old Gringo
1989
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as Harriet Winslow
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Age: 51
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
1988
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as Self
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Age: 50
Leonard Part 6
1987
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as Jane Fonda (uncredited)
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Age: 49
Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star
1987
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 49
The Morning After
1986
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as Alexandra Sternbergen
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Age: 49
Agnes of God
1985
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as Dr. Martha Louise Livingston
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Age: 47
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
1985
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as Self - Host
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Age: 47
I Love Quincy
1984
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as Self
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Age: 46
On Golden Pond
1981
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as Chelsea Thayer Wayne
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Age: 43
Rollover
1981
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as Lee Winters
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Age: 43
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
1981
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as Self
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Age: 43
Lily: Sold Out
1981
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as Wanda
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Age: 43
Nine to Five
1980
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as Judy Bernly
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Age: 42
No Nukes
1980
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as Self
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Age: 42
Magic Night
1980
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as Self
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Age: 42
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
1980
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 42
The Electric Horseman
1979
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as Hallie
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Age: 42
The China Syndrome
1979
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as Kimberly Wells
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Age: 41
Comes a Horseman
1978
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as Ella Connors
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Age: 40
California Suite
1978
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as Hannah Warren
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Age: 40
Coming Home
1978
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as Sally Hyde
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Age: 40
No Image
Superstunt
1977
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as Self
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Age: 39
Julia
1977
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as Lillian Hellman
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Age: 39
Fun with Dick and Jane
1977
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as Jane Harper
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Age: 39
The Blue Bird
1976
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as The Night
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Age: 38
Introduction to the Enemy
1974
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as Self
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Age: 36
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
1974
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as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Age: 36
Jane
1973
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as Self - Interviewee
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Age: 36
A Doll's House
1973
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as Nora Helmer
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Age: 35
Steelyard Blues
1973
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as Iris Caine
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Age: 35
FTA
1972
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as Self
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Age: 34
Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary
1972
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as Self
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Age: 34
'Klute' in New York
1971
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as Self
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Age: 34
Klute
1971
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as Bree Daniels
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Age: 33
Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks
1970
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as Self
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Age: 32
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
1969
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as Gloria Beatty
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Age: 31
Barbarella
1968
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as Barbarella
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Age: 30
The Chase
1966
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as Anna Reeves
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Age: 28
Cat Ballou
1965
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as Catherine 'Cat' Ballou
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Age: 27
Circle of Love
1964
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as Sophie
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Age: 26
Filmmaking on the Riviera
1964
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as Self
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Age: 26
Joy House
1964
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as Melinda
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Age: 26
Sunday in New York
1963
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as Eileen Tyler
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Age: 25
In the Cool of the Day
1963
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as Christine Bonner
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Age: 25
Period of Adjustment
1962
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as Isabel Haverstick
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Age: 24
The Chapman Report
1962
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as Kathleen Barclay
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Age: 24
Walk on the Wild Side
1962
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as Kitty Twist
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Age: 24
No Image
Jane
1962
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as Self
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Age: 24
A String of Beads
1961
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as Gloria Winters
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Age: 23
Tall Story
1960
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as June Ryder
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Age: 22