Jane Fonda To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award From Actors’ Guild

Jane Fonda, an actor and humanitarian, has added the SAG Life Achievement Award to her list of achievements. The 86-year-old will receive the award at the Screen Actors Group Awards in February, the group said Thursday.

Fonda expressed in a statement that she was “deeply honored and humbled” to be chosen.

“I have been working in this industry for almost the entirety of my life and there’s no honor like the one bestowed on you by your peers,” Fonda told the crowd.

Jane Fonda To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award From Actors’ Guild

In her almost six decades in the profession, Fonda has won two Oscars (for “Klute” and “Coming Home”), two BAFTA Awards, an Emmy, and seven Golden Globes. With an active attitude that dates back to her antiwar rallies in the 1960s and 1970s, she has utilized her platform to push for gender equality, civil rights, and environmental protection. Last year, Fonda spent her 85th birthday raising $1 million for a non-profit in Georgia that teaches school-aged youngsters to make healthy life choices.

SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher described Fonda as a “trailblazer.”

“We honor Jane not only for her artistic brilliance but for the profound legacy of activism and empowerment she has created,” Drescher told the crowd.

Jane Fonda To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award From Actors’ Guild

Fonda was born in New York City on December 21, 1937, as the first child of the late actor Henry Fonda and socialite Frances Seymour Brokaw, who committed herself at the age of 42, when Jane was 12. Her brother Peter, an Oscar-nominated actor and screenwriter, died in 2019. Fonda reflects on her amazing life, family, profession, relationships, and activism in the 2018 multipart documentary “Jane Fonda in Five Acts,” which is currently available on MAX.

A SAG-AFTRA committee nominates and votes on SAG Life Achievement Award honorees, who are meant to reward actors who embody the “finest ideals” of their industry.

The 31st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will air live on Netflix on February 23rd at 8 p.m. ET.

SOURCE | AP