activism as her early incarnation as a sex kitten, her speech was pointed. Fonda, who has actively aired her opposition to the Iraq war and President George Bush, said that she hoped that one day "the United States will again The festival had initially invited Fonda to a gala dinner on Saturday night, paying tribute to her late father, Henry, with a screening of Twelve Angry Afterwards guests were invited to a dinner, where the award was announced. The festival's president, Gilles Jacob, recounted Fonda's career highs and lows.
Recalling when the actress enraged the United States and earned the she was pictured on an anti-aircraft battery used against US aircrews, he "spied on and hounded by the FBI". He went on, in an apparent criticism of Henry Fonda, to say that she had done more to uphold the humanist values her "He had a sense of duty but not political courage, while you, you have the and how to defend the oppressed, and who follows through," Mr Jacob said. "He played that in his movies, you did it in life.
" Fonda, visibly moved, put the focus back on her father, responding in fluent French: "For my father, his films were his way of representing justice, quality and democracy." The actress who had long wanted to work with her father, hoping it would help their strained relationship, eventually starred alongside him in On Golden Pond in 1981. As he was too ill to collect his Academy Award for best actor in the role, she accepted it on his behalf.
He died five months later. Throughout a career which has seen her appear in numerous incarnations, from sex siren to aerobics video maker to serious actress and staunch feminist, Jane Fonda, born in New York in 1937, was a model and stage actress before she appeared in film. She was twice on the cover of Vogue magazine, and in her big-screen debut, Tall Story (1960), reprised a role she had already performed on Broadway.
Fonda's breakthrough commercial success was 1965's Cat Ballou, which received five Oscar nominations and was one of the year's top grossing films. However, it was the still-popular sci-fi spoof Barbarella (1968) which catapulted her to sex-symbol status. The 1970s was Fonda's decade - she won three best actress Oscars and two Baftas.
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